Head vs Heart - How to Cultivate Bhakti in a Highly Logical Mind

[@GoldTopLane]

“The mind creates the abyss - the heart crosses it” Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@xtfgrw]

Really great quote; thanks for sharing. Will keep thinking about this.

[@GoldTopLane]

@@xtfgrw Nisargadatta is best recorded in the book “I am That”. There are also good videos /audios of that book - he is very direct and empowering and well worth listening to. Swamiji’s ashram here online however offers everything you need. The study and subsequent experience of Advita Vedanta is (in my ‘umble opinion) the very best teaching available for a person wishing to “know thyself” Swamiji’s videos explain it all - and also offer a detailed study of the Sanskrit scriptures which are a direct path to enlightenment.. he’s also alive and you can ask him questions.. Your sincere intention will lead you home.. may peace be with you and all the love in the world.. 🙏🌸🌳🌏⭐️✨

[@teehee4096]

Thanks, Swamiji 🔱🙏💮. I'm navigating this issue myself as a former Muslim who's turned off by fanatical forms of all religions - Hinduism included.💮🔱🙏

[@anupa1090]

Amazing to listen from our foreign gurus...

[@JoshiSubodh]

Thank you for this video Swamiji. I have the exact problem as described. I have heard 11 Chapters of of Shree Bhagwat Geeta from you, and I understand the teachings, but cannot feel Ishwar. Your video gives great direction to experience Ishwar, if I can connect emotionally.

[@sundarsubra8064]

Thank you for this beautiful explanation 🎉

[@waasisroad]

I struck gold when I found this channel. Thank you Swami Tadatmananda for your thoughtful devotion and to all at the ArshaBodha center who make these videos possible.

[@harishradhakrishnaniyer7407]

Koti Pranams to Swamiji

[@makingofmandala7264]

Beautiful guidance, Swamiji! Thank you! ❤🙏💐

[@Girygen]

Sarve bhavantu sukinah... Pranam, Guruji. Thank you much for this video 🙏🙏🙏

[@sajanraghavan]

Thank you oh compassionate Sir, nay Ishwara for addressing this very valuable and extremely significant challenge with simple and relatable examples and personal stories etc I still seek clarity and faith for which I pray that you intervine in my life, dissolve my doubts and fill me with bhakthi ❤🙏

[@rajaiaf]

Swamiji, Pranams. Simply brilliant talk.

[@kanishkajoshi563]

🙏Thankyou swami ji.

[@pushkarsrivastava7046]

Beautifully explained such a profound truth. Pranam Swamiji.

[@shivavish1459]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏 This is the best explanation i ever got about this topic of cultivating Bhakti and how to explain the same to kids.

[@halcyon2864]

🙏 What a beautiful talk and so well explained in such a simple way that even a seven year old child can understand, no problem. Swamiji, you are a gem, a gift to us all. Thank you, please accept my humble pranams 🙏 🙏 🙏 With loving kindness 💜 📿 Hari Om

[@latageeta]

A wonderful way to explain to the sceptical mind.

[@LarryLynn108]

Excellent explanation to help bridge the seeming gap between rationale and metaphysics. Or science and faith. Thank you for that . I have and sometimes still do experience this conflict. But you have succeeded in using words to present an acceptable explanation.

[@TheBeardedMysticPodcast]

Excellent video Swami ji! Thank you so much! Your compositions at the beginning and end are just as powerful! You must release them some day!

[@pablorosros]

Pranam Swamiji. You have knowed the same God, in your christian pass and now. God is one. No matter from which perspective you workship Him. You misslead only your right aproach to Him. Everyone needs his way. But what is sure is that we all have an inner need for God.

[@anupa1090]

❤😊

[@patriciamele2892]

Im sharing this to my friend ina ... this is just really well said ... ina and swamit, sometimes i wish i could talk to god alive, in human form. Ive talked to him so much, i wish i could have that verbal feedback like you get in human conversation

[@taniabiswas2416]

Swamiji 🙏🏼 what a beautiful way of describing personal GOD to that of Impersonal GOD in analogy of long distant marriage. That you have crossed that barrier of relating to personal GOD does get reflect in your discourse. Also the state of deep meditation and getting one with GOD (Samadhi) so beautifully explained and can be grasped. Just that ignorance is so high, pull of maya is so strong, love for that impersonal GOD dwindles away. While born n raised as Hindu, folding my hands and asking for help just isnt coming to me anymore. Leaving me feel isolated. While I know “THAT” exists, unable to cultivate the intense desire to feel its presence. Hankering on small things to get fulfilled so that I can sit down and meditate on the ultimate reality? Unable to settle that confusion of mind.

[@prietya9906]

The best, swamiji. 🙏🙏🙏

[@blackstar_1069]

Love you swamiji 😻

[@chrisaav100]

Shanti, shanti, shanti 🙏

[@venkyneel]

Thank you Swamiji! It is Iswara's grace alone that I get to learn from you. 🙏

[@alphadragon1948]

Jai Gurudev ❤

[@kasipandyshanmugavel3833]

Thank you very much Swamiji. This is the answer for God's realization

[@MadDogCop-l4d]

Thank you Swami!

[@aarjukr]

प्रणाम गुरु जी 🙏🙏🙏

[@oldnewsglory]

🙏🏻❤️‍🔥 your story is always inspiring, sir. Much love to you

[@Rey-wr4zj]

🙏🏼💐❤️ thank you🙏🏼💐❤️

[@anastassiageoffroy2300]

Thank you so much, Swamiji. It's gace of Ishvara - the opportunity to listen to your teaching... The mystery of life... Juste beautiful! ❤🙏

[@girishnanoti954]

Pranam Swami ji

[@krishnansm438]

Thank you Swamiji. Very well explained. Pranams.

[@xtfgrw]

This was great! Thank you.

[@QueeenSativa]

Have you heart of Saint Isa who upon returning to his homeland was crucified? It broke my heart all over again to hear it this way, and I found my childhood soul where Bhakti still lived. A new story emerges, not of self sacrifice of Jesus, but of Saint Isa attaining his rainbow body. 😊 Because what Jesus got in trouble for was bringing the good news that God doesn’t ask, require or even appreciate sacrifice as was being perpetuated by religion. He really wanted to spread the love. But as long as profit was to be made, sacrifice remained a key element of religion. And instead religion wrote Jesus in as a sacrifice, effectively killing his teaching.

[@sayantanghosh6714]

Excellent explanation

[@poojagupta2588]

Pranaam 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ManuelCocco]

I resonate with the guru's experience and recommed to everyone the youtube channel "science and non duality", which tries precisely to reconcile advaita vedanta and the scientific method (E= OHM *C*C) Scientific discoveries from late XIX century onwards have been slowly bringing science finally up to speed with some of the foundational truths of the Vedas (quantum theory, relativity, anti-matter, multiverse, infinite loop of big bangs, etc...slowly starting to explain shakti vs shiva, karma, reincarnation, the 3 personifications of Brahman/Ishvara that the hindis use to represent creation, preservation and distruction, etc.).

[@joshuad24]

I needed to hear this thank you

[@yoginaidu7950]

Amazing. Thank you Swamiji. Very beautifully explained, how to chat with Ishvara

[@Workdove]

Psychedelics help for direct experience. A good starting point to break through to experience what can't be said. Ayahausca or Iboga are best.

[@CleaClea5]

I recommend Swami Tadatmananda ' s book "Roar of the Ganges"!

[@alukuhito]

🙏

[@poesjeauw8424]

Swami dayananda didn't believe in upanisads maha Bharat a Ramayana and other scriptures

[@bhaavaniidasa2651]

The ‘Hard Problem’ of why we have consciousness seems insoluble in a purely materialistic way - unless you think matter is conscious as in Pantheism.

[@dmenon8946]

If you believe in God you can reach the goal if you don't belive go within yourself and will reach the goal (both of these different paths. with steadfast practice and intention) the beauty of Santana Dharma based on each person's constitution there is a path from atheism to those who have deep devotion and all in between

[@newzade1]

Its hard to have a relationship with Ishavara 11:08 when you see so much injustices done in this world. I wonder where is law of karma.

[@prietya9906]

You need to give it some time, for karma to take effect. It may not always be instant justice.

[@JoshiSubodh]

Ishwar has created the world but does not govern it. It is governed by the laws of each ones Karma. More injustice is resulting in bad Karma which is why the situation is getting so challenging. If you do good karma you will find that the society supports you and things get easier.

[@xtfgrw]

Good point to raise discussion!

[@AlexanderDivineEmcee]

☮️ Worshipping one God in many forms is not solely unique to Hinduism, the Ancient Egyptians also did that 🙇

[@daisybelleamberbush]

🙏🕉🙏

[@poesjeauw8424]

Swami dayananda created arya samaadj

[@EliAbramzon]

Thanks. 1. Please commit these lessons to Spotify. 2. The non dual or qualified non dual teaching are to be found in most westerm religions. But here's the "catch". God Isvara has to be somehow accessible to humans. That not a concession on His part, but a requirement if He's ever be relevant. That's not a bug, but a feature. Brahaman or Kabalistic Ein Sof (the Unlimited, Ungraspable) cannot be attained.

[@arzoo_singh]

This is why duality in india .

[@johnmiller0000]

Your anti-Christian conditioning is regretfully still on show. You seem unaware of the non-dual teachings of Jesus (nothing to do with the biblical Christianity most people are familiar with). Christian mysticism is completely aligned with the teachings of advaita vedanta. Indeed, it stresses over and over again that the true nature of god is unknowable, that it is nothing like the conceptual god of traditional religions. It teaches that the way to know god is through silent meditation and beyond the concepts of the mind. I arrived on the nondual path 4 years ago when I came across your channel. I, too, had rejected the Christian teachings of my youth. But, having embraced the willingness to learn about other nondual teachings (Buddhism, Taoism, and the direct paths of teachers like Nisargadatta), I see exactly the same unknowable truth being pointed to. And now, I can feel comfortable reading the teachings of Christian mystics. In a way, I have come full circle. It was unfortunate that I was taught a distorted version of the fundamental teachings of Jesus. For many decades, I rejected anything to do with Christianity. I was very logical and scientific. But I felt something missing. I was guided to the Eastern philosophies which, in turn, have guided me to the same truth but from the perspective of the culture I grew up in. The Holy Trinity of God, Christ and Jesus can be aligned with the trio of Brahman, Ishwara and the Jiva. One as three. There is only one truth but many paths that point to it. It's a blessing to be able to recognize that one truth and not be caught or identified with a particular path. All is grace!

[@rsr9200]

While I understand what the Upanishads say about God, I cannot say so for Christian scriptures. Hence, I would appreciate any citation you can provide to any passages in any scripture accepted by a Christian church which proclaims that you, I, or any of us can assert that “I am God” is the non-negatable truth, as the Upanishads do.

[@teehee4096]

If you would like to share non-dual teachings of Jesus, please provide a source. As far as I'm aware, no texts have been conclusively demonstrated to contains Jesus' words - even the Gospels.

[@SwamiT]

Namaste John, Actually, I've read a lot of John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart - whose "Godhead" is virtually the same as brahman. Yet most Christians don't know about Christian mysticism, or reject it (Eckhart was considered a heretic). My references were to mainstream Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

[@johnmiller0000]

@@SwamiT Thank you for clarifying 🙏🙏

[@johnmiller0000]

@@rsr9200 I think looking for writings in one tradition that perfectly parallel those of another is the wrong approach. Each tradition relies on a certain conceptual framework to try to point to that which cannot be described with concepts. For me, reading the teachings of many mystical traditions and experiencing similarities with the practices, I can see they are all pointing to the same truth but from different perspectives. Whether you sit in silence as a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Contemplative or someone on a "direct path" - once you are beyond concepts, it's the same.

[@flibflob69]

I'm gay

[@snehashispanda4808]

I am an atheist. I do not believe in the existence of God. I find insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on science, reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and have not found compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of God. I believe the universe is governed by natural laws and forces, rather than moral, spiritual, or supernatural ones. As an atheist, I reject religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision-making. I emphasize the social and empirical nature of inquiry and prioritize scientific solutions to intellectual problems. I am engaged in a continually evolving search for truth, primarily through science and philosophy.

[@exopyrox]

What caused the laws of the universe?

[@exopyrox]

There are no gods or supernatural entities...but there is a fundamental underlying to the observable universe..you have missed the point

[@xtfgrw]

I almost agree. I think it’s very clear there is no supernatural intervention. Absolutely zero evidence. But I run into three major roadblocks that prevent me from being atheist: 1. There are things instead of nothing. 2. There is life. There is zero ability in science to explain life emerging from no life. Only theories with no evidence. 3. Humanity seems to have a spiritual impulse. They resonate with music and stories. There is some distinct in humanity. I feel the best word is something divine. This aspect has no comparison to animals. No animal can create the Sistine chapel or care if such a thing is created. What to conclude from all this? Not totally certain. I believe in something more like the Tao and theistic evolution.

[@johnmiller0000]

Good luck with that. I'm a career scientist and used to profess to being an atheist. Science cannot tell us the truth about anything! It cannot explain matter, energy, space, time, consciousness. That's a pretty serious inability and one which the quantum physicists of the early 20th century recognized. Unfortunately, the nonsensical dogma of materialism still holds sway with the laity. What science can do, and does do very well, is arbitrarily divide reality up into parts and then, through observation, predict how those conceived parts will behave. If you believe science can tell us the truth, you don't understand science. Science is the same as the neti-neti of advaita vedanta. It can tell you what is false but will never tell you what is true. "God", "Ishwara", "Allah" or any other word like those is just a word to point to the ultimate reality responsible for everything. The ultimate reality cannot be described. It is beyond concepts. So our limited dualist mind resorts to poetic language and stories to help point to the unknowable.

[@r2nreddy]

Science, that keeps changing it's position, waste of time.

[@petersjoblom248]

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