The Yoga Of Love | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the path of devotion inspired by Swami Vivekananda's book, Bhakti Yoga, with a special emphasis on the chapter on "Triangle of Love".

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Samoamah,
0:04.0	Jhāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā Tama Soma Jutir Gamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:25.6	Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shanty.
0:31.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:43.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:50.3	Good morning, everybody.
0:53.6	Today is Father's Day here in the United States. So happy Father's Day
0:58.1	to everybody. And it's also appropriate in all the predominantly Christian cultures of the West.
1:10.8	God is worshipped as the Father.
1:13.6	You approach God as Father.
1:16.6	And this divinization of human relationships, this is actually the way of Vedantah.
1:23.6	Swami Vivekananda said that the way we approach God in Vedantah is that we humanize our relationships with the divine and divinize our relationships with the human.
1:40.7	What does that mean?
1:42.3	What is our relationship with the human? Father, mother, husband, wife, children, friend, and so on.
1:51.0	And what is our relationship with God that it's divine, something very high, remote, awesome?
1:59.0	Now Vedantar reverses this. The relationship which we have with the human,
2:06.5	father, mother, can we have that relationship with God? Can we see God as father? Can we see God as
2:16.3	mother? Can we see God as father? Can we see God as mother? Can we see God as the child?
2:19.3	And with the human being, with people around us,
2:24.3	instead of just seeing them as other human beings, bodies and minds,
2:29.3	little limited persons, can we see the divinity in them?
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