If all is one consciousness, who is God and why worship Him? | God in Vedanta

[@ncn141953]

Jesus, in the Gospels, in John 5:30 where Jesus says, "I can do nothing on my own; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me." But at the same time in John 14:19 says “he who has seen me has seen the father.’ This is a clear demonstration of the the Vedantic teaching that Swami Sarvapriyananda is talking about. On the one hand we have Sat-chit-ananda, one limitless existence consciousness bliss ( Nirguna Brahman) and on the other what is viewed through the prism of maya which is sarguna braahman which we refer to as God.

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

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

[@ranadas4934]

Thank you, Swami Ji, for sharing that enlightened beings can embrace both non-duality and devotion, showing they can coexist. Your words really resonate with me. Please continue to guide us from darkness to light. Thank you once again, Swami Ji! Pronam. 🙏🕉️🕉️🕉️

[@lara6668]

Great explanation Swamiji . Pranaam 🙏🏻

[@Gyanendramina6468]

You are born and I'm spark❤

[@ParaSwarm]

Great explanation as always.

[@pramodrai3199]

Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@soorajks1774]

🙏🙏🙏 Pranam Maharaj Jai Shree Ramakrishna Namasshivaya

[@punuchatterjee]

Gyana and Bhakti are the two wings of the same Bird..both the wings are to be flapped to fly to transcend the Maya of the Samsara.❣️Pranam Swamiji 🌸🏵️🌼🙏🏻🕉️

[@giridharpavan1592]

rightly explained through the example of hanuman, i too wondered about bhakti of ramana maharshi

[@jalajamenon8664]

Thank you very much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@nirodha35]

To make the illusion bearable😉🥳

[@sonalgadhavi8488]

Hari om swami ji 🙏🏻

[@markstevens1729]

Turns out it's only a conundrum if you involve the ego. The fluidity of the spirit does not care about the nature of the form.

[@Roshan-q6n]

How confusing is the human mind? How simple is the human heart? I'll take the simple choice.

[@sukantasamanta3768]

Pranam Maharaj. Excellent explanation. For devotee like me, issue is not whether to worship or not. Issue is more at root of evolution of Maya. When Brahman is in constant Bliss, why fetch Maya/illusion and become sagun. It is understandable that to make gunas from nirguna, all gunas may have to balance each other so as to reach nirguna state when combined again. But why transform to such variations, does it has a purpose?

[@foreverskeptical1]

Interesting question, I think in Buddhism this is one of the questions Buddha never gave an answer to ("The unanswerable questions"), but I would love to hear what others think of this

[@sukantasamanta3768]

@@foreverskeptical1Pranam and thank you Maharaj. Till better answer is available, I presume it is diversity in feelings that attracted supreme soul to change self through Maya. However change from Nirgun to Saguna is next hard problem for rational thinkers.

[@somerandomnoob100]

Swamiji was asked something similar to this and I remember he said something like there is no answer about why maya exists because the question is the same as asking what is the cause of causation, what is the space outside of space, time before and after time. The chain of cause and effect is itself maya, so we as humans can't really answer about why it's happening because all whys and how's are within the bounds of maya itself

[@Divine_wave23]

Realising you are god is what enlightenment is. Religion is for lowly individuals who can't see the reality

[@sukantasamanta3768]

@Divine_wave23 I too agree realisation is reaching God. However it takes 8.5 million rebirths to reach that purity suitable for realisation. Right understanding of religion and following it helps to achieve purification process faster.

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

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[@kirtialadia751]

Hari om swami ji 🙏 Can we have yesterday's talk's recording 🙏

[@stevenhines5550]

How could he have memorized so many texts

[@nandu1770]

But why is it recommended to worship saguna brahman?

[@parimaldevnath-f6b]

Great elaboration. Pranam

[@DhruvMishra-ew9kw]

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