Dissolution of the Mind | Swami Sarvapriyananda

"The mind is the cause of the objects of perception. The three worlds depend upon it. When it is dissolved the world is also dissolved. It is to be cured (i.e. purified) with effort." Inspired by the 4th chapter of Yoga Vasishta Sara (Nectar of Supreme Knowledge), Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on concept of Dissolution of the Mind.
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[@anagha.aniruddha16]

हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत्| श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु 🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta society New York for sharing this 🌹

[@charlienfriendsinruraljapa1372]

Infinite Love to you Swami-Ji . . . I regret that I wasn't aware of the Vedanta Society while living back in New York. One of my silly, small dreams is to meet you in person if ever I return to the States even for a short trip. When the sometimes pomp conceit of Raja . . . .and the thunderously burdensome (yet oh so fun) path of Karma Yoga wear at the fibers of my Soul . . . I turn -time and time again- to the poetic elegance and grace of your beautifully crafted Jyana Yoga teachings. Deepest thanks and lots of Love to you Brother.

[@julesjules5439]

There are Vedanta Societies in several places. Swami is coming to Durham NC in March. So not sure where you are, but the possibility to meet him is still there

[@charlienfriendsinruraljapa1372]

@@julesjules5439 Hey dude~! Thanks for the kind response : ) Have been in Japan for quite some years now. Me thinks maybe just going to India from here may be a cheaper fare . . . .but really want to hear Brother Sarvapriyananda talk in the center core that Vivekananda built in New York City . . .In time maybe I will return. Go Trump by the way (^- ^)/

[@IAMLiamwalker4444]

Infinite Love to You All❤

[@taniabiswas2416]

@@charlienfriendsinruraljapa1372There is a vedanta society in Kyokai Japan. Not sure where you are but try and google and find the nearest one. All the monks of RK mission reverberates same knowledge, tempo differs. 🙏🏼

[@sombh1971]

Hmmm...

[@AmiraAroraOfficial]

Swami Sarvapriyananda ji is ❤️

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

What helped me in my sadhana was to take the teachings literally. It sounds silly and too simple, but it works wonders. Earlier I used to analyse a lot and was disconnected from my immediate experiences in the hopes of understanding reality. But eventually it hit me that reality is something to be experienced, and we are doing that anyway. We only need to be aware of it. And there is no technique to it, you have to take the teaching literally, not merely as a nice teaching to help you. You are brahman. Not metaphorically, you literally are brahman. In fact the mind is what is metaphorical, and the physical body is simply a vessel for these mental archetypes to express themselves. But reality always remains untouched, and that is you. Don't even think that we all are one, because that makes us believe there are others separate from us and that there is some common substratum. No, only you are. Your substratum is not brahman, YOU are brahman. The personality and body is superimposed upon you and an appearance, literally only appearing to the senses. Fear, anxiety, lust, jealousy, happiness, excitement, grief, etc are mental perceptions triggered by the physical body. You anyway cannot avoid them nor hold onto them, because you have no relation with the body and mind. But the body and mind are very intimatley related to you. Whenever you feel small, weak and powerless, it is because you are using your senses to look for evidence of existence-consciousness-bliss. But senses will always perceive only boundaries and limitation. This fundamental shift in the way you live is to be done literally and practically, that will give you true understanding, mental masturbation won't help after a point. Do not delay awakening to the simple truth of brahman, jump into it right away and let go. Let your sadhana be done by ishwara(through the natural workings of the body and mind), you can be carefree and without worries.

[@MrTubeMeToo]

Yes.

[@CoolNoobXboxGamer1234]

Yes.

[@agnivaray7476]

Sending deep appreciation for this comment, really needed to read this. Beautifully put, with a lot of heart in it.

[@matangidesai3437]

Beautiful comment practice as if it’s happening but not by you ! Drop personality and what remains is real authentic self

[@Owen-hr6yq]

🙌🏽 this is the first comment I've read in all my years that sparks something profound. Thank you for posting this

[@kumarakanti-ky6fb]

Some 6 years ago, Swamiji had delivered a Philosophical lecture with similar title, " No Mind ". But, I find this lecture more more relatable and offers loads of learning as its more Practical and not Philosophical !

[@devanshudesperado]

6 years have passed listening to this beautiful soul. Seems like yesterday to me. Time is indeed an illusion

[@kumarakanti-ky6fb]

@@devanshudesperado Indeed :)

[@venkataramamuthuswami]

Only India's ancient wisdom and tradition can produce such a lineage of great teachers of Vedanta, like our Swami. We are blessed to listen to his wonderful lucid commentaries .

[@colinmccowan9056]

His humility and humor is endearing. I so appreciate these lectures

[@WisdomofMindBody]

"Merge the scene with the seeing. It is just vision. What you see is not apart from the vision of seeing. It is internal to our experience. It is due to the senses experiencing.

[@BillHeilmannfritz]

One of swami's best! I have been listing to you for two and a half years, since the passing of my 22-year-old son. You've been a blessing in my life thank you 🙏🙏❤️

[@successstories1503]

May God bless you with peace 😊..

[@Garrick645]

I got introduced to you via our philosophy course at college. I don't have much time but one day I'll watch all your videos and make notes about it. They are gold.

[@rayanchowdhury8943]

Namaha Shree Yatirajaya Vivekananda Suyaye, Sacchit sukhaswarupaya swamine taapharine

[@saurabhbhatnagar2469]

best teacher of vedanta 🙏

[@mousumibanerjee59]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏 eagerly waiting for Geeta classes.

[@888mabraham]

Blessed by the presence of Swamiji .Pranams Swamiji!!!

[@malayadasbanerjee3539]

Koti Pranams Swamiji🙏...always feel blessed hearing you....thank you so much 💐

[@rajalakshmiprasad8460]

Dear Swamiji , you truly liberated my body by pointing out its reality. Thankyou for telling what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said about the pain in his body. Pranams.

[@irakaikobad7133]

Pranam Swami ji 🙏🙏

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

Pranam, Swami 🙏 You highlight many important truths. Thank you! Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌺 Jai Ma 🌺 Jai Swamiji 🌺🙏

[@jyotiathale8154]

नमो नमः स्वामी🙏💐🌿

[@adelinamadjarova7518]

I love you Swamiji

[@throughgeetslenses]

Thanks to Swami Sarvpriyansndaji from the bottom of my heart where we are One 🙏🏽❤️🕉️🌸

[@adonaimakhofola2696]

Jaya Jaya Swamiji 🪷💞

[@carlosavila.291]

Thank you for your service 🙏 ♾️👤

[@tanukagupta8416]

প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ 🌷🙏🙏🙏🌷

[@knowthetruth311]

Self Realization true happens sometimes while listening and listening but the mind afterwards tricks you that it has slipped away😂😂

[@tzadik36]

Pronaams!🙏🏻 Namashkaars to all!🙏🏻

[@sumitbanerjee9274]

Good Morning Maharaj.

[@spiritlightpajic7299]

🤍Thank Y🪷u Swami Sarvapriyananda for sharing 🌅L🤍ve G🫥d Your Self and See Gods Presence in ALL lS The Great Commandment in The Bible🙏 Namaste 🪷

[@ritabose8520]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏

[@devanshudesperado]

Enlightenment is instantaneous, self-realization takes time. Integration of shadow and light is hard labour and is every moment's task.

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

Pranam....

[@manjukodwaney5022]

Namaskaram Swamiji 🙏🌷

[@royjoseph9271]

This is a great talk loaded with great spiritual teachings ❤

[@swatihazarika5149]

Pranam Swamiji

[@rajanpradhan1399]

Such a beautiful talk on the dissolution of the mind. I have to listen to it again. I met Swamiji at NSC airport by a coincidence and was thrilled to see him in the flesh. He is my virtual spiritual guru.

[@shivasmight369]

Om Namah Shivaya

[@WesterlyDreamer]

Thank you for giving us this spiritual feast

[@royjoseph9271]

True I have been made a servant by the servants of my servant ❤

[@AnaRangelYoga]

Such a blessing to this world ❤ thank you 😊

[@basudebsen]

Who is the one that tries to dissolve the mind? The mind itself. The intellect associated with the guides the entire mind to be free of all desires, withdraw all senses , the body and vitro of thoughts/ imaginations/feelings/ emotions.

[@royjoseph9271]

The meaning of the dissolution of the mind and the different paths to dissolve the mind is well explained.❤

[@drjibankumarsarkar]

Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher and the messenger of enlightenment, bless me.🙏🙏🙏

[@glenemma1]

Thank you, Swami.

[@sevakmurali]

Thank You Swamiji 😊

[@michaelmcclure3383]

Here's the quote Swami "Maddam, be broad minded; always see two ways. When i am on the heights i say Shivoham Shivoham: i am He, i am He!' and when i have a stomach ache i say "Mother have mercy on me" Vivekananda So basically turning to the personal God in times of difficulty.

[@thrinethran2885]

Guess the personal God also helps out in fulfilling the other two elements after tatwa bodha.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@@thrinethran2885 probably certainly true regarding vasanas and desires. I know in my own case I had practiced meditation a couple of hours a day and much more on retreat around the same time as I was encountering Vedanta.This is some years ago now. I had a couple of moments in meditation when the body was completely relaxed and the mind resolved in such stillness that it was almost an effort to return to any awareness of the bodymind. Afterwards many of the truths of Vedanta started to become absolutely clear, primarily that what I am is never an object. The whole teaching of the seer and the seen was rock solid and has remained so. Same with non doership (because obviously i the Self do nothing), though aware of actions being performed, they aren't mine, so no identity gets picked up as a good doer or an evil doer. That was very freeing. Although I wasn't formally meditating so much after that another dissolution occurred spontaneously that resolved this lingering fear of death or disappearance. The states seem to exist and cease to exist in me, but I never come into existence and what I am in myself is fullness, lacking nothing and even if the whole world disappears i never do. That was revealed and not just some intellectual conclusion. So not to bore you too much with my story, what I'm driving at is although I guess dissolution came easy in my case and there were certainly liberating breakthroughs, I still suffered a degree due to residual vasanas. I once went to one of those nadi places in south India because a friend wanted to go. Anyway, they told me that I'm experiencing amrita (deathlessness) which was true because I realised the unborn deathless nature of what I am. And they said whenever you want you can be absorbed as that, but some time (12 years hence) you'll be properly detached like a dew drop on a lotus leaf and teach love without attachment. At the time i was shocked, because what more does one need than to know one's immortal Self nature.. but no I had various difficulties even after that and it was only after having cherished attachments broken that a new truth started to dawn. That when I'm not attached to anything in particular then Love is always present and for all. It's the particularising of Love that was the hindrance. The insistence that I need this particular relationship or this particular circumstance to be be happy means I am destined to be unhappy, but if I have no such insistence and I have the faith that God (satchitananda) is enough and all desires offer nothing essential that isn't already here, then gradually we can be free of the allure of desire. I think this is where devotion helps.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@@thrinethran2885 In my own case I practiced meditation for hours a day and more during retreat around the same time as i was encountering Vedanta. So when dissolution occurred during meditation the truths of Vedanta started to become firm knowledge. Even when I stopped meditating formally dissolution wasn't finished with me haha. So somehow Tatwa Bodha and dissolution are intimately related in my case. I don't know how much God is needed for meditation, plenty of religions like Buddhism practice meditation but aren't necessarily interested in God. Where God helps a lot I feel is in the realm of desires and residual vasanas. I remember once I went to some nadi place in the south of Tamil Nadu not long after I had this breakthrough where I lost the fear of death (since I was never born) and they said you're experiencing amrita (deathlessness immortal bliss) and you will be able to be absorbed as that whenever you like.. but 12 years hence you'll be truly detached like a dew drop on a lotus leaf and teach love without attachment. So this became a kind of koan I guess.. what is unattached love. I don't know about teaching but what happened was I realised I couldn't attach to the people and circumstances I loved even If I wanted to.. and after some devastating heartbreaks in life the clouds parted and it dawned that when I'm not insisting life be any particular way, that I need anything or anyone particular then my love isn't particularised and is always present. Hard lesson and much easier with God, because God is the fullness, the reality and bliss that is now, which the allure of desire only promises to give us, but can't.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@thrinethran2885 In my own case I practiced meditation for hours a day and more during retreat around the same time as i was encountering Vedanta. So when dissolution occurred during meditation the truths of Vedanta started to become firm knowledge. Even when I stopped meditating formally dissolution wasn't finished with me haha. So somehow Tatwa Bodha and dissolution are intimately related in my case. I don't know how much God is needed for meditation, plenty of religions like Buddhism practice meditation but aren't necessarily interested in God. Where God helps a lot I feel is in the realm of desires and residual vasanas. I remember once I went to some nadi place in the south of Tamil Nadu not long after I had this breakthrough where I lost the fear of death (since I was never born) and they said you're experiencing amrita (deathlessness immortal bliss) and you will be able to be absorbed as that whenever you like.. but 12 years hence you'll be truly detached like a dew drop on a lotus leaf and teach love without attachment. So this became a kind of koan I guess.. what is unattached love. I don't know about teaching but what happened was I realised I couldn't attach to the people and circumstances I loved even If I wanted to.. and after some devastating heartbreaks in life the clouds parted and it dawned that when I'm not insisting life be any particular way, that I need anything or anyone particular then my love isn't particularised and is always present. Hard lesson and much easier with God, because God is the fullness, the reality and bliss that is now, which the allure of desire only promises to give us, but can't.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

In my own case I practiced meditation for hours a day and more during retreat around the same time as i was encountering Vedanta. So when dissolution occurred during meditation the truths of Vedanta started to become firm knowledge. Even when I stopped meditating formally dissolution wasn't finished with me haha. So somehow Tatwa Bodha and dissolution are intimately related in my case. I don't know how much God is needed for meditation, plenty of religions like Buddhism practice meditation but aren't necessarily interested in God. Where God helps a lot I feel is in the realm of desires and residual vasanas. I remember once I went to some nadi place in the south of Tamil Nadu not long after I had this breakthrough where I lost the fear of death (since I was never born) and they said you're experiencing amrita (deathlessness immortal bliss) and you will be able to be absorbed as that whenever you like.. but 12 years hence you'll be truly detached like a dew drop on a lotus leaf and teach love without attachment. So this became a kind of koan I guess.. what is unattached love. I don't know about teaching but what happened was I realised I couldn't attach to the people and circumstances I loved even If I wanted to.. and after some devastating heartbreaks in life the clouds parted and it dawned that when I'm not insisting life be any particular way, that I need anything or anyone particular then my love isn't particularised and is always present. Hard lesson and much easier with God, because God is the fullness, the reality and bliss that is now, which the allure of desire only promises to give us, but can't.

[@beverlycollins410]

Thank you for the insight and for being so patient with me and for your integrity. 😊

[@julies6625]

Absolutely nothing boring about this teaching ❤

[@domingosmsande9153]

Without discovering who I am, and wanting to know about the universe and God, I find myself in the strange and curious situation of wanting to know about everything else without knowing who wants to know. I am not two, one to know the other. It's really about discovering, removing what covers. I can, apparently, cover the sun with the palm of my hand. But that hand is only seen by me because of the sunlight. Likewise, I only perceive theories, beliefs and concepts - which seemingly cover the infinite light - because of that light itself. To see the sun, I need to remove my hand from its position in front of my eyes. To see the infinite light, it is necessary to remove, by understanding the facts, the superimposition which is beliefs, theories and mental representations. In this case, seeing is being. It's a great adventure, which, initially, can cause fear. But this fear also subsides.

[@indiradeb327]

Hari Om Swami ji 🙏

[@lousialb8962]

Jiddhu Krishnamurti did not say, "I don't care what happens." He said, "I don't mind what happens." This is an important distinction because not caring sounds hard hearted. That, alone, can provide an excuse for the ego to reject everything else he taught.

[@CalmPug-ez4zx]

He said in a video , i remember it

[@kajalnath6499]

Abhumilunthito pronam kori Moharaj ji 🙏🙏🙏

[@mtuli9679]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@rajugadi3786]

Swami Koti Koti Namaskaaraalu ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ketakimunshi3354]

🙏🙏

[@Vipralipsa_1]

Thank you

[@rishabhthakur8773]

Peace 😊

[@spirituality8823]

Bhai tumhari comment 7 days ago and video upload 1 min ago 😭

[@asstudio5107]

Bro did time travel 💀

[@spiritualseeker.]

​@@asstudio5107he must have commented when the video was live

[@TeoKaiGuan]

Thank you dear Swami, very useful and inspiring 🙂

[@rupratanpatnaik3278]

🙏🙏🙏

[@apparentbeing]

"Your brain automatically “fills in” the blind spot with a simple extrapolation of the image surrounding the blind spot. This is why you don't notice the blind spot in your day-to-day observations of the world."

[@concernedspectator]

But if enlightenment is knowledge first, how could anyone fall out of it because of circumstance alone? It seems the only way to erase “advaita of the mind” is with something that provides a better explanation. The path of curiosity doesn’t care for the sensitivities of the mind.

[@thetransferaccount4586]

nice lecture about going mad literally and metaphorically.. actually the mind currently as is in delusion if you think about it

[@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@prajwaljoseph2351]

Swami is really funny 😂

[@rajalakshmiprasad8460]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sandunranasinghe5356]

👌

[@alexocampo2934]

As the poet says"There is a turning of the eye/ Upon itself./The Sweetness!/The murderous sweetness!/ Sudden bird/Of prey."

[@Imp120]

swamiji when people describe advaita they speak about it as something helpless

[@spiritualdora3991]

Body is like a machine prana is the energy that makes the machine work if anyone can able to remove prana from indriya(that makes the body run) and can put in drista(activate perceive ness) than mind can dissolve

[@devadasan3313]

🌹🌹🙏

[@jameshenderson8873]

As master gibran sez " freedom is not when your days are without a care...or when your nights are not without a pain and a grief. But, when these things girdle your life..... and, yet, you rise above them... Naked and unbound.." A seeker of silences , am I,,,... And how might I find a treasure in these silences, that I may dispense... with confidence? Huang po sez " it is. Right here. Right now. How do you go on... missing it. ? " Know Acception. Peace...

[@solionrabbit5078]

oh exactly what RamanaMaharshi says

[@FORMLESS_reality]

Look directly for the "mind" what will happen.. if u dont have the experience of becoming ALL.. its only mind..mind is twoness..not one..those examples are beings falling..they didnt get rid of there "person" if your no one .how can u suffer

[@Owen-hr6yq]

Swami... Im sorry I have to point out the glaring error in your talk... "A sad monk is a bad monk" does indeed rhyme

[@888mabraham]

It is okay if swami makes a slip of tongue. 😊

[@Owen-hr6yq]

In all seriousness though this talk is incredible. Such insight... And fiery today 🔥 like spirit of Vivekananda pulsing through him

[@drjibankumarsarkar]

Swamiji himself pointed it out when a nun jokingly said about his mistake which he accepted gladly. You have not heard the incident narrated by Swamiji to the end .

[@sarthakuchiha607]

The rhyme is better with nun

[@mintusaren895]

Ma sarada bandhya kina?

[@rameshbhat1386]

Can someone become monk after age 60?

[@FORMLESS_reality]

Mind is time..time is illusion..have u ever lived in a moment not as "now" u may know the mental now..but not the eternal silent now..forget everything..andake absolutely no effort..what will happen??

[@tik5703]

Mind is not Time , mind is one of the mysterious divine power of Atma

[@FORMLESS_reality]

@@tik5703 lol.. ok

[@kumarakanti-ky6fb]

@Vedanta Society :- The person who wrote description for this video is much better than Swami Ji himself. In the description , I dins words like " Cure " & " Effort ". But in the entire lecture, swamiji does NOT utter the word "Effort " or " Cure". This is the Problem with this Swamiji. Please talk about effort.

[@amitsen142]

If thinking about all is brahman in a simple life can achieve that most of the people live, then why need to be monk? Actually doing any kind of a business and this type of a philosophy are contradictory to each step. World not work this way If homo sapiens have this। Then we don't exist today We cannot say anything against this because ultimately we have dukkha that all.

[@manjunathgogi3622]

Who is talking in the head all the time? What is that speaking constantly?

[@ManishaSharma-gm2ov]

🙏

[@widipermono854]

🙏🙏🙏

[@mkh2799]

🙏