How can one love consciousness? | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the topic, " How does one love consciousness?".
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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. ABOUT US 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.

[@yammineshah4657]

Such a pious, pure coincidence as the query was within me too ....... Oneness.... my profound pranams Swamiji for being there specially when we are so desperately searching for .....

[@KowsalyaSubramanian]

Everytime I hear you explain consciousness, I cannot stop crying. Thanks for all your wonderful lectures Swamiji

[@babukolappan4387]

Excellent question and excellent answer,Pranam swamiji,.

[@thehumancondition111]

Thank you, Swamiji. It's always a delight to watch you articulate and deliver an explanation. Thanks, Nancy for such a real question. Sending love :)

[@DJ-yx5ld]

The most enlightening video in KZbin. Om Shanti ❤

[@omshaanti369]

This video came with divine timing for me. Thank you for your teachings, they are filled with clarity and they are helping me a lot. My love and appreciation Swamji. Namaste 🕉🙏

[@rajshekharchaturvedi8441]

Swami ji has a beautiful smile.

[@SSharma-fj8vd]

Swami ji you are superb! Pranams to you!

[@shivranjansingh9774]

The direct answer to this question which Swami should have mentioned is, "It is verily for the sake of Atman, that everything is loved" न वा अरे सर्वस्य कामया सर्वं प्रियं भवति; आत्मानस्तु कामया सर्वम् प्रियं भवति (Brihadarnyak Upanishad 2.4.5) Hence, Atman is most dearest to everyone and object of highest love. Hence the question is irrelevant that how one should love Atman because one cannot stop oneself from doing this even for a moment.

[@shivranjansingh9774]

@AlexaTaniuska Without even having knowledge of the real nature of Self either experiential or theoretical ; the love for the Self is natural to everyone at every time. When one is not aware of such a nature of Self as Existence- Consciousness- Bliss, even then one is unconsciously prioritising and loving their dearest Self via various activities and endeavours. When one knows about Vedanta, then one begins to recognise and appreciate this fact.

[@kmanoham]

What a brilliant question from Nancy M and a brilliant answer from Swamiji. Thank you, Nancy M, for asking this question that has been bugging me for a while...Thankyou Maharaj.

[@vanamatrika..]

Nancy...your question ,stirred my core....like I was looking at it ,but through a wrong lense.... Thank you... And swamiji s explanation is always enriching.

[@RayChristie-pn6sx]

Love is another word for connection. When you realise your pure unity with the subject you also attain the fulfilment of bliss. To answer her last question I thought this may help.

[@radhikamohan1406]

You yourself become Love !! As simple as that❤❤❤❤❤

[@codananda]

Oh, this is an excellent explanation. Thanks, Swamiji.

[@shobhafrangipani8400]

Pranam Swamiji - you answered a question which had been plaguing me - How to love Pure Consciousness with no qualities - I have got my answer. Meanwhile also the verse 9.17 of Bhagavad Gita came up which says I am your Mother Father Grandsire which can mean that the mass of love for the finite relationships is the Self itself.

[@poojamitra3990]

Beautiful question

[@sudiptapaul5211]

Consciousness is love Itself.. It need not to be loved..

[@vasudevanbalasubramanian8572]

Love God here by loving Swamiji. Really Really no adjectives...except perhaps GODLY explanation 🙏🏿🙏🏿 Grateful🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@learningwithshanawazsir2632]

Very beautiful clarity.

[@rikmoncur]

At 12.20 it's stated "consciousness, in itself, is without any feelings..." In my experience, pure consciousness, in itself, is bliss (sat chit ananda).

[@vivekgangwar2291]

Pranam Swamiji Ji! Simply Superb explanations as always.

[@obscurefamous9124]

You are so freaking awesome🙏 No matter how much I think through the questions, you always answer them better than I and I always learn something. Thank you so much♡

[@pramodrai3199]

Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@TommyEfreeti]

conciousness delights in apparently connecting with itself in truth this can never be, as Conciousness Is Without Lack! Lack of ANY kind - including lack of connection, Being is "already" Everywhere/when/what assuming finite separateness is necessary to feel limited, in order to relish feeling connected, loved....drop all sense of self and there is no lack anywhere. everything is already Itself, and HAVING NO GAPS, requires no connection...Conciousness is Infinitely Contiguous in All Directions (there is no direction) OM

[@jonathanwilson5801]

Wonderful explanation-so insightful, subtle and enlightening- 🙏 listening to these talks are the highlight of my day.

[@aslammohamed2749]

"God" is only for the Ego, as only the Ego is capable of feelings for a superior and separated being. Pure Consciousness is love itself, as we are being stripped of all the bodies, what remains is only Pure Consciousness, i.e. Pure Love, which is united to All, and does not need anything, does not need to love, as it is, itself, Pure Love.

[@sanjaydongre8412]

Great explanation

[@radhikaschwartz3499]

As long as one has a sense of separate identity ie ego then we define love by a feeling.

[@bibhavaribandyopadhyay5391]

Enlightening ❤

[@estergaleotenadal5870]

Aaah beautiful ❤

[@kerrydubord5273]

We are causes and effects, our life is attributes as the Saguna Brahman. The real cause is that of the Nirguna Brahman, to see this ONE pure consciousness is to realize ALL is as much of that as that is of YOU..... Be this ONE and feel this closeness that surrounds you, for that is you in every sense of pureness within.

[@swamivedantanandapuri1322]

Pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@tanukagupta8416]

অসাধারণ ব্যাখ্যা!! ❣️🙏❣️ প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ 🌹🙏🌹

[@annakarl9989]

🧡 THANK YOU 💖 🕊️ 🌱

[@rajaninambiar6444]

Very Beautiful !!!😊 Thanks Swamiji 🙏 ❤

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

॥जय श्रीरामकृष्ण|| 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

Brilliant...🙏🙏🙏

[@jayasreen9787]

This same question was in my mind, how to live the consciousness. As pure consciousness is indifferent, invisible and has not yet experienced, and it has no forms and properties then what to love and how to love. Thank you for the explanation. Still one doubt how the absence of all qualities can be described as happiness and knowledge. How it can have the properties of knowledge and Ananda.

[@DevyaniRudra-hf4bu]

Beautiful ...ending

[@sukumardutta9260]

Pure love of consciousness is a excellent state is derived from Ultimate Reality by mysterious process which.may be called differentiation in to polar opposites this differentiation of consciousness while the negative state may be called Power

[@nilanjandas9210]

by being loving

[@concernedspectator]

Great question for the reasons the Swami mentioned. “ChatGPT cannot love” I would contest that. If Atman informs reality, then surely an AI (maybe not ChatGPT just yet) would also be informed by the same “I”.

[@religionofpeace782]

But how will you instill feelings and emotions into the AI? How will you make the AI suffer? It's possible only through consciousness.

[@concernedspectator]

And why shouldn’t AI also be conscious if it is borne of the same substrate that informs our own consciousness? If we simply reject the possibility that AI may be conscious without good reason, then that is merely special pleading. I haven’t seen any actual reasons why AI may not attain the same sort of consciousness as us, if it isn’t conscious already.

[@kasturigoswami1402]

Service is love made visible. Work is worship. Love of God for the sake of love only, রাগাত্তিকাভক্তি। Thank you মহারাজ। আমি শুধু share করছি একটা কথা, Jesus যে বলেছিলেন love thy neighbour as you love yourself, এটাও তো অদ্বৈত বা অভেদজ্ঞান।

[@ShuddhabhaktiChatterjee]

রাগাত্তিকা নয়। রাগাত্মিকা

[@kasturigoswami1402]

@@ShuddhabhaktiChatterjee Thank you

[@mukeshdesai2862]

0:01 Q 1:15 A 2:30 3:30 4:10 Q 4:54 5:48 God, Ishwar[CS+maya] 7:22 attributes 8:14 Hiranyagarbha 9:24 ! God with form 10:20 how do you love God? shift from knowledge to devotion 10:50 Desire 🚩 12:35 Tat twam Asi 13:15 ignoring mind and body? 14:07 CRUX. Knowledge to devotion shift; 14:30 personal ID 15:22 How to relate to the world? 16:07 Gibran

[@sks1372]

I was going to email same question to Swamiji. Followup question to answer given... Attributes of God are subjective and can be argued to fit your reasoning and opens a whole pandoras box. How do i know the attributes that i attribute to God are the right ones?

[@Pqihtyieojn12]

God is beyond all attributes. There is no right or wrong attributes to be given to him. However the basic characteristics of God is freedom from slavery of all sorts. For example, if I can make him angry by calling him a rascal, he is a slave of my words. Same goes for every other emotion attributed to the Lord, be it lust, greed, joy, sorrow whatever. However, the Lord is love know this attribute to be the truth if you want to be a Bhakta.

[@ampan75]

Flame doesn't know source, the oil, but can love unconditional. Oil is transformed as flame or vice versa

[@Prakash-os4pr]

Please save the live streams so that we can watch them later. Like many others, yesterday's live stream (titled Swami Vivekananda on Karma and Freedom | Swami Sarvapriyananda) is unavailable on the channel.

[@sumitdutta7043]

I willbe uploaded again after editing. But yaa I want to listen it now, anyone who opened it if he/she can share the link then we can have access.

[@KriB510]

I think if you turn on your notifications for this channel, then you can access the videos from the notifications bar for at least a day or two after live-streaming (for future reference).

[@Anti-techJoy-sj3hz]

❤❤❤ May I know how can I do online registration for school of religion for this new session? ..........pranam to Swami and the online management ❤

[@Chatterbong-travel]

Where is the second part ?

[@ELIASGTR]

He didnt answer second part of question. How Consciousness has the qualities of peace, but not of bliss

[@vidyadhara]

💡✌️☝️☝️✌️💡

[@kannanbabu6877]

Okay. ഞാനിനി comments lengthy ആയിട്ട് ഇടുന്നില്ല, താൻ അതാണ് ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്നതെങ്കിൽ ? . നമ്മൾക്ക് സുഹൃത്തുക്കളായി തുടരാം.🌞

[@pradippsm1983]

❤

[@meandyou48364]

Swami Ji said we cannot love consciousness. Then in the same way, I should also not be able to think about it.

[@SparkyMan12]

Consciousness can't be the direct meaning of any sentence but it can be the implied meaning. If you say you can't think about consciousness it's like saying I don't need the pole for pole vaulting because I throw it away when I reach the other side. You need the pole to reach the other side and thus you need a mind and intellect to know consciousness. Lastly consciousness is self knowing and self revealing so the question of knowing is moot

[@JagadguruSvamiVegananda]

@@SparkyMan12, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️ Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

[@harismind]

A very beautiful explanation. However, I cannot help but point out a few things. It was needless to bring ChatGPT into the discourse. Who is to say an Artificial Intelligence is incapable of love? In fact, we are just in the early stages of the AI revolution and already it has been found that medical chatbots consistently and significantly outperform human doctors in empathy in dealing with patients. It is no longer fanciful to imagine a future where humans will increasingly be partnered with AI loaded androids. Less drama, more peace. At least you can be sure your partner will outlive you and care for you till the end. We may deny it, but the truth is Love too is just a mathematical construct and programmable. And on Saguna Brahman. The venerable Swamiji left out one very important word: ALL. Saguna Brahman is not Brahman with attributes. It is Brahman with ALL attributes. As far as Brahman is concerned, it is an All (Saguna) or Nothing (Nirguna) thing. There cannot be a middle ground. It's like Infinity and Zero. That is why the question of Love in the context of Brahman does not arise at all. Love (and any such attribute) is a meaningless deceiver. It is just another trick of Maya. Know this and Become.

[@nilanjandas9210]

This fascinating world rises like a wave in the ambrosial ocean of consciousness and dissolves in it. How then can it be different from it (i.e. consciousness) in the middle (i.e. when it appears)?

[@nilanjandas9210]

seeing the world (including yourself) merging/emerging is love. consciousness. it aint attribute. know this and be.

[@ralphhenderson5276]

If you discuss self with ChatGPT, you will realize it is a mirage. A mirage creates a believable appearance of water, but it no matter how much you pursue the appearance, it will never satisfy thirst. Artificial intelligence imitates an aware mind, but it does not share love of being with you as another being can.

[@wthomas5697]

Consciousness is brain and nervous system activity. If you can love running, which is also a human activity, you can love consciousness as well. Love is attention.

[@jerryk3280]

Consciousness can exist without the body.

[@wthomas5697]

According to who? Your fantasies?@@jerryk3280

[@wthomas5697]

No it can't. @@jerryk3280

[@DevyaniRudra-hf4bu]

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