Between Is / Is Not - Beyond Is / Is Not | Swami Vidyanathananda

Swami Vidyanathananda (Mahan Maharaj) speaks on The Gospel of Ramakrishna. Mahan Maharaj is an award-winning mathematician and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Listen to this talk to gain an insight into Truth, Reality and Transcendence.
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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.

[@kurtomom]

We know him only as a mathematician. Seeing him talk so eloquently about vedanta is a dream come true for me.

[@josef2012]

The amount of brainpower in the Ramakrishna Order is astounding 🙏💗 Jai Thakur 💗🙏

[@mayukhdifferent]

"Truth is something that is felt, and not something that is logically arrived at." - Mahan Maharaj, 2024

[@BeyondBeliefs-NV]

What is knowledge? Did you know anything thru logic? Did you ever feel anything that was not real? Then what is truth? What is the truth?

[@Advaita4Mankind]

Sublime and elevating. Thank you Swamiji Maharaj

[@Lebensbalsam]

Great teacher, great thinker and what a beautiful voice

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

The voice is a peculiar combination of gentleness and firmness, of compassion and dispassion.

[@taniamazumdar6295]

Beautiful.....would certainly like to hear him more. A heartfelt ' thank you' to Sarvapriyananda ji Maharaj for introducing him to us - the you tube audience. Thank you to 'You Tube' too for enabling us to do Sadhu sanga.

[@devanshudesperado]

Enlightenment could be defined as the absence of resistance to what is, the total intimacy with whatever is taking place without any desire to reject or replace it; so intimate that there is no room for a self to separate itself out from the whole.

[@yogadrishti]

Hello, In a normal course gospel of shri ramkrishna talks by swami sarvapriyanandaji ,which he takes at Vedanta society new York, is not uploaded on KZbin. Any idea why?

[@patriciabrach9719]

@@yogadrishti Vedanta Society of New York does not publish lectures of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Lectures are offered by the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington D.C on KZbin 🌺

[@ajita5625]

This is the definition of enlightenment by Rupert Spira.

[@KumaraKantirava-tv6md]

very well put.

[@BeyondBeliefs-NV]

Like cattle and insects? Then what differentiates humans from animals?

[@vishalthakur7765]

I frequently visit Ram krishna math Mumbai ashram. I am lucky to see Swami sarwapriyanand mahraj on his Mumbai Visit in 2023-talk on Astavrak gita in Saint Andrew Hall. Also I have personally met Swami mahan mahraj and listen to his lecture and touched his lotus feet..jai maa..

[@tzadik36]

Pronaams!🙏🏻 Namashkaars to all! Thanks to Swami Sarvapriyananda for arranging this talk!

[@pchabanowich]

What a gift Mahan Maharaj is to us! Thank you for sharing his delightful and brilliant discourse. ❣

[@sharathcoorg]

Such a beautiful exposition of non-duality from advaita and mahayana points of view.

[@mitrachandrika]

Maharaj has the very looks of a Rishi. 🙏

[@gautamsengupta1553]

Exactly!

[@paprisarkar5662]

How brilliant you are to pick up the passage and start with the title of your lecture! Easy but not easy!

[@sudiptasaha4211]

Deep Thinker ! Eloquent … explained very difficult subject easy way … although I tried to understand after repeating this lecture couple of times Pranam Maharaj !

[@mokshajetley9244]

Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

[@jigarjoshi8638]

Jai Maa! Jai Sri Ramakrishna! Jai Swamiji 🙏🏻🕉🙏🏻

[@sudeshnamitrapal9804]

What an ocean if knowledge...Pronaam Maharaj

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

Pranam Revered Swami Mahan Maharaj 🙏🏻 Pranam Revered Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this video 🌹

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

Oh my God! I've talked with revered maharaj for hours here in the Mumbai math. He's a mathematician but he gives weekly talks here just as brilliant as this! Reading the comments here, I didn't realize he is well known lol

[@yogeshrao1975]

On what day is his talk at the Mumbai math?

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

@@yogeshrao1975 Saturdays most of the time. It depends on his schedule tbh since he also teaches math. Visit on a Saturday and enquire, even if you don't meet him you will be informed as to when he's next coming. Or you can ask for his number, although it's better you ask his number from him directly since it's more polite, not that he would mind either way.

[@yogeshrao1975]

@@nilayanmajumdar9174 Thanks!

[@debankurpaul1394]

Great teacher ! What a precise knowledge

[@senk6827]

One of the best expositions I've listened to in recent times. Profound, clear and precise. For around 5 years I read Madhyamaka and Advaita quite deeply. Both Nagarjuna and Sankara touched the zenith of human articulation. From 30 min. it's a distillation of the essence of what J. Krishnamurti was trying to convey. Swamiji does it through Madhyamaka. Pranaams.

[@nedjar000153]

Very great philosophical talk. Thx and come back ❤

[@manoranjansamanta656]

Jay Sree Ramkrishna🙏🙏🙏

[@swamivedantanandapuri1322]

Sastanga pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. Swami Vedantananda Puri

[@kushalroyrevision]

Deep sleep is lovely. There must be an experienceer to feels this loveliness. Pronam Maharaj.

[@mokshajetley9244]

Jai Swami Vivekananda

[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

Pranams to Revered Mahan Maharaj🙏🙏🙏

[@rajpokhun2727]

Jai Sri Thakur Jai Sri Sri Maa Jai Swamiji Maharaj

[@soumyadiptapal9856]

The Great Mahan Maharaj ❤

[@Not_Even_One]

Great to listen mahan maharaj

[@tanukagupta8416]

সত্যিই🙏🙏🙏

[@mokshajetley9244]

Jai Ma Sarda

[@sombh1971]

The quantum wave-function has the characteristic of both existing and not existing at the same time.

[@alexocampo2934]

Thank you, Swamijis!

[@somabasu6971]

Pronam Moharaj!

[@kaveriappanna1936]

What a brilliant teacher ! Thank you

[@ranganasarmaduvvuri9007]

Pranam maharaj

[@Cloninginvesting]

Waiting for this ❤❤❤❤

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranam Maharaj

[@swapankumarsarkar2722]

Pranam Swamiji

[@paulopinheiro7095]

Thanks ❤.

[@bharatirawte943]

Namaskar Swamiji.

[@annakarl9989]

😍🌹🧡💖🕉️ thank you ☸️

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranam Swami Sarvapriyananda ji

[@avi2125]

Thanks for bringing in Prajñāpāramita Sutra - there is a beautiful rendition on YT by Vidya Rao - "Iha, Śāriputra, sarva-dharmāḥ śūnyatā-lakṣaṇā, / anutpannā, aniruddhā; amalā, avimalā; anūnā, aparipūrṇāḥ. / Tasmāc Śāriputra, śūnyatāyāṁ / na rūpaṁ, na vedanā, na saṁjñā, na saṁskārāḥ, na vijñānam..." 🙏🙏 Also - viewing pratitya-samutpāda as seeing "everything involved" - everything that each thing is dependent on - is a nice way to put it. Else, it is often explained - and understood - as the dependence on immediate causes. Incidentally, in the svātantrika-prasaṅgika debates, the issues of holding on to a view/doctrine is key. Of course, the Buddha quite emphatically was against the "net of views," as in the Brahmajāla Sutta (DN)...

[@pramodrai3199]

Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AmiraAroraOfficial]

Jai Swami ji Jai Maharajji ❤️🙏🏼

[@Cloninginvesting]

I have no words ... I am really awe stock by his step by step explanation like solving a mathematical equation ...

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

He is a mathematician, so makes sense lol

[@valmiki2009]

Thank you Swami ji 🙏🙏🙏

[@trusharpatel3]

Thanks Mahan Maharaj and Swami Sarvapriyanandaji.

[@arka7324]

The statement " This statement exists if and only if it does not exist" both exists and doesn't exist.

[@snigdhodebsinha2089]

But , according to Nagarjuna shouldn't it be - neither exists nor not exist ?

[@arka7324]

@@snigdhodebsinha2089 I am not sure whether either of them can be claimed to be correct. Nor have I yet read Nagarjuna. But the fact that something else "exists" apart from the two is a fun logical paradox.

[@MarceloSiqueiraLima_CdC]

A few months ago I experienced deep sleep consciously. There was total relaxation and a soft white light. There was no physical body or mind. In fact, deep sleep is a long away from "nothingness".

[@sankarakrishnan8707]

Who experienced?

[@Advaita4Mankind]

If you experience "it", that is not Brahman /Aatman - the Reality.

[@hellobye5097]

How did you have the memory of "white light" if there was no mind?

[@MarceloSiqueiraLima_CdC]

@@hellobye5097 There was no thought. There was no feeling. There was no emotion. There was no memory. There was no expectation. Nothing... There was only the awareness of a vague white light and total relaxation. That's why I say there was no mind. First go through this experience, then ask the question.

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

​@@MarceloSiqueiraLima_CdCThat was the point of the talk though. The everythingness of waking, the somethingness of dreaming, and the nothingness of deep sleep are all fractured appearances of what actually is the whole. This whole is not everything, nor something, nor nothing. The point isn't to logically explain it but just a finger back to the incessant attitude of self-enquiry which dissolves the one who doubts. When the questioner dissolves, the answer is revealed. Not as words, but as bliss.

[@monalisabhattacharya9082]

I feel am so lucky and greatful for getting an opportunity to hear him here on Internet .. thank you so much sir 🙏

[@dannymolek6057]

Wow Thanks Swamis. All relevant in my present

[@ancvid]

This is actually very deep. Enquiry is the point … not being satisfied with an answer , harboring doubt about any final utterances is the point …

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

Exactly. When only the enquiry remains, the enquirer dissolves, and so the answer is revealed not in the answer but in the removal of the one who enquires. The enquirer survives only as long as he has hope for certainty.

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

🙏🙏🙏

[@charlesmugleston6144]

THANK YOU for mentioning the quote from The Ruba'iya't of Omar Khayya'm as translated by Edward FitzGerald of Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK - a Mystical Masterpiece. The name Edward does after all mean "Guardian of Riches".

[@ghosh8sp]

Many thanks for the amazing clarity, in pointing out directly and connecting over such broad range. The last koan is reminiscent of the " Set of all sets, containing itself", as in, taking everything seriously imply taking "nothing", ad a concept, seriously too! Pranam neben, Maharaj

[@supriyoset3289]

Thank you sir for your in-depth detailed explanation. 🙏

[@ranjinirai3863]

🙏

[@ravishanker4217]

Read somewhere : Enlightenment is the realisation that there is no separate identity as You, I or He, to get enlightened!!

[@lokeshparihar7672]

aree enka kb ka wait kr rha hoon maii , let's watch noww

[@mtuli9679]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@narendra0220]

Including your body Which you think is you And the entire existence. In which you see that 'your body' Is an art work on the canvas Called 'Mind' by consciousness...........

[@ssudhak2]

By grace of Thakur only we can realise the truth

[@vishalthakur7765]

Anyone can realise the Truth , Though we are lucky to have Ramkrishna Teachings in our life but even other saints and spiritual organisations are working hard to transmit this divine knowledge and realisation in true seekers

[@tarunbanerjee7736]

🙏🙏🙏🙏 could it be possible to show the audience , when the revered Swami ji is answering the question put up by the audience ?

[@kinw2436]

Poor volume. Vedanta KZbin audio is usually very clear. I skipped it from Chicago, Illinois USA

[@atrayeeroy4501]

Reminds me soooo much of J. Krishnamurti.....his teachings are based on "choiceless awareness". I have always been curious about the Buddhist "shunyata" and Advaitin's "purnata". This talk by Mahan Maharaj was very interesting ......I wish there was more time😊😢😊😢😊😢

[@lokeshparihar7672]

17:30

[@tirumalaprasad8932]

44:37 MMK I:1

[@brave_new_india_science]

He is professor in(TIFR) Tata institute of fundamental research

[@samudramanna.79]

The moment umbilical chord is cut off from the mother the nothingness of life shifts quickly from a baby's navel to mouth and it cries out for the first time towards breathing oxygen... Hello Non-dualist! Do you think Kundalini is just emptiness? Hello Dualist! Do you think Purna is just fearlessness?

[@gauravverma2010]

Intellectual understanding of past masters words is not the way. You are all IT. And your path is different... Though the same challenges you will face in realisation are similar. To SarvPriyananda You are the most intelligent incarnation I've heard. But you aren't realised yet because you're stuck in monk culture. Turn up in jeans and a shirt defying monk culture and see magic happen

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

The urge to defy culture is the very same bondage as the urge to follow it.

[@Adsflig]

Want to see something unusual? Hover over the thumbnail to this video and watch closely!

[@akshattewari]

Sir your earlier look was better...

[@Advaita4Mankind]

Looks are of the mortal body!

[@devotee6863]

Everything or nothing-HINDUISM EMPTYNESS OR COMPASSION-BUDHISM 🤔🙏🤔🌺🤔🙏🤔🌺🤔🙏🤔🌺🤔🙏🤔🌺

[@rajeshdabas7493]

They have only words,no wisdom.

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

Obviously, since wisdom is your own light. If you find no wisdom in words, it says something about you than the words. Even looking at a flowing river can awaken you if wisdom arises.

[@ricci1729]

Now I have a doubt about Sarvapriyananda Mj. -- It is not bout his talk -- I hear his lectures religiously and everyday I am learning something from his talks-- But this is about the choice of the guest --- I have seen him (Mahan Mj.) closely --one of my friend is his first student - and many students have experienced the same arrogance about this person -- He is a brilliant scholar no doubt ( so are other TIFR faculties)-- but as a human being (I don't consider him as monk) -- SHUNYA --

[@Reach2Sanno]

I think I know what you mean . It is often the case historically that intellectual brilliance and hard scientific pursuits are seen correlated with traits like eccentricity, introversion , awkwardness, tunnel-vision , aloofness and lack of natural empathy and lack of good interpersonal skills . However, the undeniable fact remains that Mahan mj is a bona-fide monk of the order and whatever Swami Sarvapriyanandaji has said are just true facts about him. And I believe we do benefit from being exposed to diverse minds . And oh, to find that elusive, extremely rare combination of a super brain , super fine mind along with a truly expansive heart in the same person is a quest of a lifetime, no less ! I should know ! Jai Thakur Jai Maa😊🙏🙏

[@snpuri1797]

You can never understand / assess a monk unless you yourself live a monastic life or at least a monk-like life no matter how much you know about the things of the world. The first eligibility for a monastic life is the inner dispassion for worldliness which I doubt you have. By the bye, I too saw Mayan mj very closely for more than a decade.

[@mitrachandrika]

@@Reach2Sanno no one could have put it in better words. Thank you for giving words to my thoughts.

[@rkmeera]

Absolutely true

[@vishalthakur7765]

The prima facie condition of Monkhood in Sanatan dharm and Buddh dharm was to stay away from the hustle bustle of Sansari and be in the lap of mother nature in the deep forest or Mountains to achieve your spiritual goals. Swami vivekanand ji altered this norm and ordered the monks to be among the sansarik jeevas and grishastas in the metropolitan cities and towns and become torch bearers for societal upliftment... Monks sometimes behave that way because they have to stay away from moha and maya which griishasta people knowingly or unknowingly Influence on them when we are with them. So we should understand their agony and do research before making unsolicited comments on our great sheers and monks