Vedanta in America - From Emerson to Oppenheimer | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses the profound influence of Vedanta philosophy on American intellectuals and culture from Ralph Waldo Emerson to J. Robert Oppenheimer. He highlights how these thinkers incorporated Vedantic concepts into literature, philosophy, and science, and how they've shaped American thought and spirituality over the last century and a half. The talk underscores the ongoing relevance of these ideas in contemporary discussions about consciousness and artificial intelligence.

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatom Ahso ma, sadgamaya,
0:24.6	Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya, Amritam Gamaya, Oam Shanti, Shant Ome shanty,
0:38.3	Shanti,
0:39.3	Shanti
0:41.3	Shanti
0:43.3	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real
0:46.3	lead us from darkness unto light,
0:49.3	lead us from death to immortality
0:52.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:59.0	Namaste and good morning everybody.
1:01.0	Mastay, namaste, namaste.
1:07.0	So it's a story of Vedantah from Emerson to Oppenheimer.
1:12.6	What an interesting subject.
1:14.6	The origins of this talk are actually, there is this Harvard Club right here in Manhattan.
1:30.3	I was also not aware of it until they invited me for a talk.
1:35.3	It's sort of exclusive so they don't allow taping, nor do they allow uploading of the talk.
1:41.3	So that talk is lost and it was given there.
1:43.3	But some people who heard
1:44.6	it they said we must do it publicly this talk should be given publicly and
1:48.5	that's how we are actually this this is more or less the same thing which I
1:53.4	said there at the Harvard Club but this time more openly and the occasion for
1:58.7	that talk of course was at that time the movie Oppenheimer had been released and it was making waves and so.
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