The Yoga of Necessity | Swami Nishpapananda | Vedanta Society of St. Louis

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Swami Nishpapananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and an assistant minister at the Vedanta Society of St Louis, where he has resided since 1974. He became interested in Vedanta through college course work, joined the Order in 1981 and received final monastic vows in India in 1995. A graduate of Washington University, Swami Nishpapananda manages the book and multi-media publications of the Vedanta Society and is active in inter-faith work in the St Louis area.

Swami Nishpapananda explains that while in the waking state we seek fulfillment through outward activity, the joy we feel after deep sleep arises from the stillness of mind and body, when the ego subsides and we rest in the Atman. He reminds us that the Karma Yogi, like one who glimpses this inner peace, acts with equanimity, remaining the calm witness amid success and failure alike.

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Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone. My name is by the way Pradeep Bose. I serve as the Secretary of the
0:09.4	Vedanta Society of New York. And this morning we are very happy to welcome Swami
0:15.6	Nishpapanandaji, not just as our guest speaker today, but we are blessed and grateful to him to have him as our guest at the center for the next 10 days.
0:27.6	The Swami is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India and he is the assistant minister at the Vedanta Society of St. Louis, where he has resided since 1974.
0:41.3	He became interested in Vedanta through college coursework, joined the order in 1981,
0:48.3	and received final monastic vows in India in 1995.
0:53.3	He is a graduate of Washington University and
0:57.0	Swami Nishpapananda currently manages the book and the multimedia publications of the
1:04.0	St. Louis Vodanta Society and is very active in interfaith work in the St. Louis area.
1:12.2	He is also a well-known and popular speaker
1:15.2	at many of our Vedanta centers in the United States
1:18.9	and at universities throughout the country.
1:21.7	The subject of his talk today is the yoga of necessity.
1:27.3	Welcome, Swami.
1:28.3	Oh,
1:32.3	Asato OOM.
1:47.0	Ahsatum ha, sad kamah,
1:50.0	Tama, Tawmha, Jothier, kamayyarhya, Mrityaamah, Mrityaamha, Amritam khamay,
2:02.6	Abhir, Abhir, Mah edhi,
2:06.6	Rudra yate, daksinamukam,
2:10.6	tenam, pahi nithiam.
2:14.6	Oam, shanty, shanty, shanty.
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