|| No Mind || by Swami Sarvapriyananda

In this 3rd of a series of lectures on the Mandukya Karika of Gaudapada, (the first two
being titled "The Essence of All Vedanta," and "The Ultimate Truth", respectively),
Swami Sarvapriyananda explains the concept of ""No Mind"" (amanibhava), which is
based on the 3rd chapter of the Mandukya Karika, as it relates to the concepts of
Advaita (nonduality), and Moksha (liberation).
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[@khemparsram8839]

You are the only Swami in the entire world today who speaks in such perfect intelligent English and you make this most difficult subject sound interesting and understandable. I am learning so much from you Swami.

[@srinivaschowdaryappasani2248]

true

[@aneeshdhiman]

Did you understand what he says ?

[@pranalijadhav4819]

yes

[@unfalsifiable9250]

There are many other swamis and teachers from other orders and traditions that speak well! Swami Sarvapriyananda is quite good though, to say the least! This was one powerful talk for me.

[@kaustubhjadhav]

He is speakiing really clearly. Intelligent. You should try listening Sadhguru talks also.

[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

This lecture NO MIND appears to be the essence of all Vedanta. This ancient wisdom can not be compared with any philosophy of the world. Pranams to Revered Maharaj🙏🙏🙏

[@ammarali2880]

Love from Pakistan, he has changed my whole mindset, i should have to watch it twice cuz of unfamiliar words.

[@apratimchatterjee2411]

May this truth dawn on all of us in this very lifetime itself

[@sbh0892]

May you be happy and free from suffering.

[@lanle5820]

Thanks Swami Sarvapriyananda forever

[@VirendraSingh-iu2nc]

This single video is sufficient for enlightenment. No other vedio needs. Watch this video again and again and understand with Vivek. I give you guarantee that you would enlightened. Though you are enlightened already but you are not recognising the truth. This single video is essence of teaching of Gaudapada who was the grand guru of Shankaracharya but Swami Sarvapriyanand is entirely entitled for gratitude and thanks because he very beautifully and in nice way presented his expression on non-duality that is ultimate truth and you are that but you are not body mind . You are pure awareness. Very very thanks Swamiji. Your body may live long so you continue trying to awakene people at large. Thanks to all who have watched this video.

[@joshuadonald9383]

Thank you

[@oln3678]

This one hit me like a freight train 🚆 👊

[@horizon3919]

The world need such teacher who can teach kids in school. 🙏

[@sumitpurkayastha3593]

Yes

[@theperfectcelibate8669]

Bad idea.

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[@noone3216]

No, it shouldn't. It is something to be sought by those who earnestly seek. For others, it becomes nothing more than words to be misinterpreted and misunderstood.

[@jimreynolds2399]

I've only discovered videos of this guy - never heard of him before. I can honestly say he is very good at explaining things because he is genuine and he is talking from his own true experience. What people need to do is shut down the constant chatter in the brain - that's when you experience non-duality. The problem is you can't describe the experience in words. When you shutdown the brain chatter (by meditating) you are shutting down the left hemisphere of your brain. The left hemisphere of the brain is where language is produced so when you do this you experience an amazing state of bliss that you can't describe afterwards. You try to describe it but no words can legitimately describe it. This is why people struggle to describe what happens and why there are so many descriptions that are inadequate. "No mind" is when you have shut down the left hemisphere of your brain.

[@saraswathinh1098]

Merci monsieur

[@user-lp9vz6lu3t]

he is not just a guy he is 50 years old very knowledgeable swami look at his eyes peace everywhere he became a monk at age of 19 years he has been a monk from various life times

[@vijayalakshmikumaran7380]

Reality is not an enemy of falsity...Only knowledge of Reality is an enemy of falsity.. very important point Swamiji..Wonderful lecture..

[@thomasbrouwer2771]

Coming back one year later and still thinking this is Sarvapriyananda's ultimate talk

[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

This lecture "No Mind" appears to be the most reasonable explanation of our life.

[@sb.sb.sb.]

La illalah

[@Vishal-oj6xs]

Thank you swami jii ..Namskaram

[@soul_stripper8294]

This lecture needs to be listened many times. Really good.

[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

So many times I have gone through this talk yet I find it new and refreshing. Pranams to revered Swami Sarvapriyananda.

[@edelweisssymons7444]

We are so blessed & fortunate to be able to learn such wisdom. Heartfelt thanks from Australia.

[@IhorSmart]

Fantastically deep, beautiful, but the most ever clear and simple explanation of the greatest truth!! Dear Swami, thank you so much!!

[@kamalavenkatraman6286]

Pranamas Maharaj! Gratitude.

[@sayonthonidastuhi3055]

You have saved my life swamiji🙏

[@sweetsweetsleep...6149]

He is fantastic. His way of explaining makes it so easy to absorb. Thank you Swami S!

[@raghavansrinivasan7363]

100% true

[@nrakis7524]

@@raghavansrinivasan7363 he is very clever and knowledgeable. Is he in Sydney or NY? How do I follow yoga on this required level in Sydney?

[@nrakis7524]

God is pure intelligence.

[@nrakis7524]

So if we focus constantly on intelligence we get closer to God.

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[@aadatta64]

The language is no obstacle. But Swamiji speaks in a melodiously sonorous voices that is very penetrating. Almighty bless you.

[@gargighosh7621]

🙏 My search for my Guru ji is over after listening to you Swami ji 🙏🙏🌹🌹🙏

[@aartishekhawat408]

I agree with you... I ve taken him for my Guru.

[@amiraarora5002]

Koti Koti Pranam Swami Ji🙏🏼

[@drjibankumarsarkar]

Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.

[@agnivaray7476]

He's a blessing! His existence is a blessing for humankind. ❤️

[@souravmukherjee7565]

Indeed a great man & a great yogi of our times !!

[@dr.arunbhatp.2021]

Pranam Swamiji. There are many scholars and many saints in this world. But only few are blessed by Goddess Saraswati to put across such a topic in a very digestible way. Bless me for "Viveka" Swamiji 🙏🏻

[@toddlichtenwalter2041]

Priceless gems. Eternal prostrations to Paramahamsa Ramakrishna

[@musicaljourney5138]

Pranam maharaj..

[@dashnr]

Hi Swamiji, excellent lecture as always. I'd like to share some things that might help whoever is interested in feeling a thoughtless state, naturally (i.e. meditation). There are 3 steps in the process of how the mind works. 1. Perception 2. Sensation 3. Abstraction Let's take an example. Assume you are sitting in front of the computer and are reading a line. The first step is perception. Physically, the light falling on the letters on the monitor is now passing as reflected light into the eyes and into the optic system. This is the first step, perception, that there is something. Step 2 is the optic nerves now convert light into electric impulses and transmit it to the brain. This is sensation, i.e., physical light is transformed into electrical impulses and sensed by the brain as impulses. Step 3 is abstraction. What has just been seen, is now immediately projected as an image as a thought. The sensation just got converted to an abstraction. This third step is the problem with everyone, because all the while step 2 is occurring but step 3 is always creating an imagination of what is and we're caught in this step thinking that's reality. If we are simply able to see this shift from step 2 to step 3, that is, how every moment reality is being translated to an abstraction, this is meditation because now you are seeing how the mind works, and it won't take you for a ride. There's a silence with no effort. If one can see this process like a watchman watching the house, and continue to notice how the mind keeps doing the abstraction of the "now", the brain automatically becomes quiet and as a result fear, anxiety etc which are a result of not noticing the step 3, i.e., abstraction, begin to dissolve automatically. I believe this is true meditation and the beginning of permanent psychological freedom.

[@sarahmoore403]

I am in love with this swamiji. Everything he says resonates with my soul.

[@Scientist1351]

why do you apply tilak?

[@sharmilagovindaraju1458]

Swami pranam, pranam, pranam🙏🙏🙏 There is another path to no mind as a bhaktha. I wish to share it.. Bhaktha sees the world as krishna, consciousness also as krishna.. In a very profound way experiences the mighty inside and outside by being in the middle as intelligence.. is soooo overwhelmed by the unconditional love(a transcendal attraction to krishna) does a self sacrifice of the Ego/Intellect and by doing so blissfully and enters the state of Krishna... I call it krishnarpanam.. the surrender is soooo undescribable in words... after that sacrifice I don't exist only Krishna exists, before that sacrifice also I'm aware that krishna only exists.. the very act of sacrifice is also krishna.. my mind only knows one thing... krishna. My krishna has so many forms.. yours, mine and everyone's.... my krishna is everyone and everything.. all I know is only krishna and his love(Ananda). Everyone, everything is essentially the same. Even these paths are essentially the same.. Thanks for the very logical and enlightening talk swami, krishnarpanam 🙏🙏🙏

[@indianmilitary]

The word 'Shraddha" (trust but verify) was replaced by "Bakthi" (blind devotion) in Bhagavad Gita by colonizers who wanted to create bhakthi movements to mimic blind faith Abrahamic religions. Their motive was to control people.

[@SB-ho3vt]

This world is your "princess of Kashi" - wow... So profound

[@desertportal353]

@40:00 - Thank you - yes!

[@asokeroy8409]

Swamiji, I lay myself prostrate on thy lotus feet and dedicate myself to you through pronam. I beseech thy unstinted blessings for being spiritually enlightened.

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

Jai Jai Jai.

[@ErickHoundDog]

Yes :-). And so poetic too ;-).

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[@richa4i01]

Oh maharaj.!!You have literally saved my life. How to express my gratitude 🙏 i have no words🙏Dhanya hai bharat bhoomi 😌

[@hehe111]

​​@@ReverendDr.Thomas gateway to the knowledge -just ignore this comment!

[@OfCourseICan]

You are a gift Sir, this is my third bout of listening to this wonderful lecture and I get more excited and educated each time I listen.

[@shashikantkulkarni4307]

In a Simple but Fluent and Sonorous English He Explains the Essence of Spirituality Isantit?.OmShanti.

[@Mindpower_kp-verma.english2406]

Accept my regards, O, great saint you have cleard all our doubts wisely we are very thankful to you for being our true guru through KZbin.

[@ravim2720]

kudos kailash...people like you must carry it, practise it and preach it and liberate others' sufferings...

[@chandrabarrett4556]

Absolutely wonderful. Thank you 🙏

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[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

Pranams to Revered Maharaj

[@timochaturthapaivansalo4629]

Jai Swamiji! Thank you so much. So clear. Thank you🙏🙏🙏

[@sarkarkitchen9467]

So grateful to you swami ,lucid and forceful teachings.swami you are my shelter.....

[@nirmalchandrapati5541]

The Swami made me understand "The Realities ",I express my Gratitude and Grateful to him for Ever. Pranam.

[@whatwhat6968]

I am very much gratitude towards God 💗🙏💗🙏🙏

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LORD SUNDARESHWARA - Lord of Divine Compassion, Perfection, Excellence. Experience Cosmos in human form. A most powerful divine cosmic happening. @

[@hiranmoydas298]

প্রণাম মহারাজ!

[@dancingemptiness777]

most direct teaching, true Wisdom, full of Love

[@user-cp2cr3tj7u]

Can't express the joy and gratitude for the simplification of such deep knowledge....esp the example bof Princess of Kashi and Then the explanation of discrimination of eternal vs non eternal through waking, dreaming, deep sleep state was very convincing...And yes getting to hear about Swami Vivekananda is always a bliss.....Thank you. Swami ji🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏🚩

[@sheriedwards362]

Such a beautiful mind

[@Ahambramhasmi83]

Brilliant. Teachings of Advaita bring so much of comfort and peace. It is like taking steps towards self realization. He is so precise in his teaching and well versed with knowledge of Advaita. Truly an enlightened Guru. Listening repeatedly to this lecture. Thank you Swamiji.

[@buzzwordy9951]

Choiceless Awareness may have preferences but I am not attached. Mostly when I see my preference I just smile like its an inside joke. I love the way you present non-dualism. Seeing God in everything.and everyone is a good way for me to stay with God. Sometimes it is a challenge. Thank you so much for your time and wisdom. Through YT You are reaching the public in a very special way.

[@smitadessai4982]

Pranaam Swamiji. Im extremely thankful to the you tube for these videos

[@carmenraj7493]

Namaskar Swamiji, Thank you for sharing this wisdom with us. I love your wisdom, the approach, clarity, delivery and humor of your presentation and more so admire your sharpness in Awareness. You do not miss a beat, your connectivity is superb, it is like you hear our questions and close all the missing links and gaps that we may be thinking that we have missed. Thank you and sincere Gratitude. Hope to visit your live lectures soon ... Yes, there goes desire, albeit satwick.

[@alesantsipenka3364]

Depths made luminous. Thanks a lot!

[@understandinglife1161]

Respectfully Swami ji, we are born with a mind and its because of the mind we grown up understanding the life & world around us and when we have accumulated all the garbage ( forgive for using this word) in our mind, we want to wipe it out though meditation or by any other way to become a person with no-mind from the mindful person! Isn’t it better that we grow up with uploading right kind of experiences so that we live a peaceful life and not struggle to achieve no mind, which in any case is extremely difficult🙏

[@parthapal2305]

Passion to understand no-mind with mind behind the reply - experience is experience as in mind ....nothUng is garbage unless remembering the truth or forgetting the truth ...it us the same mind... If all these words are garbage then everything is garbage while if everything is lovable it us in the same mind... Quoting thakur ... Taka mati = Mati taka(Bengali) (Translated in English - Wealth - Earth = Earth -wealth) As you perceive it is .. So Tatyamasi (You are the world!) Yes ...dear blessed ...you are right one area ... Searching gir mindful is near to no-mind (Knowledge-path) Gyan Yoga. (Toughest among yoga) among other paths BhaktiYoga(Theism) DhyanYoga(Meditation) or RajYoga KarmoYoga(Work Path) Quest to be mindful is actually quest gir understanding mind to understand no-mind i.e., Non-Duality. Blessed wishes for the quest and quenching quest!! Please remember it is the same mind!!! So Aham!!!

[@LucidEnergyArts]

You have brought the heart of advaita in such eloquent deliverance. Thank you for your wealth of wisdom!

[@divyaalok5538]

जय श्री राम🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vinoda7525]

“This world is our Princess of Kashi” Shortest Mantra for attaining No Mind.

[@thomasbrouwer2771]

Amazing lecture. My favorite from you so far. Truly enlightening.

[@2indiana359]

Beautiful talk, Swami... U have quickly become a much needed source of motivation and information in my life. I look forward to your words!

[@manimegalaia.g.7448]

Sir would like to do a Vedanta course. Can somone give some guidance please !

[@manimegalaia.g.7448]

Somone from your institute as to how to go about please..!

[@rinq5513]

Beautiful exposition. Every time, I listen to you, Swamiji,..I feel mesmerized. The onus is on us to hold on to this wonderful knowledge.. all the time . Pranaam 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@trusharpatel3]

Love Advaita Vedanta teachings Swami Sarvapriyanandaji!

[@gopichandranr8517]

Love it when swami smiles to himself amused by the idiosyncrasies of revered gurus as if they were little children! Would be great to hear a lecture on just these great personalities that swami has met in his life.

[@balkrishnashinde9815]

Really Swami sarvaypriyanand u r aunsh of Swami Vivekananda.

[@jamesjosheph3006]

Swamigys detailed explanation makes so easy to grasp this subtle subject. Pranam.

[@lanle5820]

Thanks so much for this helpful Enlightening wonderful Swami nectar video with Caption for the low English viewers

[@nuvworld9230]

Guruji Sarvapriyananda, thank you for getting me the enjoyment of the nectar of Sat Chit Ananda every moment while playing in the realm of Maya which appears in our Awareness. It’s a such a bliss witnessing the ever changing established in the permanence of NON CHANGING. You are the lamp who has taken away so many births in this Samasara , thank you once again for helping me to cross this ocean of Samsara with full enjoyment & dignity fulfilling all my mundane transactional duties. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌸🌸🌼🌼

[@Pinakiney]

The only person who explained everything clearly.

[@linusn6227]

Har Om🙏🏼 Great Swami, your sharing of knowledge is a priceless gift and we are all lifted by your generosity of spirit. May our life and actions help us to one day be worthy of your benediction. 🙏🏼

[@letusreadbhagvadgitawithke2422]

Hare Krishna swamiji

[@sudharanikuram]

I have fallen in love with vedanta by listening to this swamiji.

[@balamuruganleburu8089]

Ohh my God this is my enlightenment, I bow down to swami.

[@jyotimasingh815]

I offer my respectful obeisance unto the feet of such a great sadhu 🐦

[@hanifamenen1082]

Another beautiful teaching! Thank-you and Hari Om Swamiji!

[@sharmilaabraham9870]

Oh what a teacher! I keep listening to this and other videos by him and wonder at the sheer fluidity with which he explains Vedanta…More Power to you, Swami Sarvapriyananda…🙏🏼

[@aartishekhawat408]

So true..

[@SonGoku_dk57]

Will have to listen to this multiple times to grasp it to the deepest level... 🙏🪷🙏

[@colinmccowan9056]

This dude just keeps blowing my fragile mind and I love it

[@pramodrai3199]

Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Kaal.satyaa]

स्वामी जी, जब आप हिंदी में बोलते हैं तो हम हिंदुस्तानियों को बहुत अपनापन लगता है। आपकी हिंदी बहुत अच्छी और प्यारी है 🙏🙌

[@cherylmenezes5462]

So profound. This discourse helped me realize with my eyes closed, I aspire to tread the path of a yogi. With eyes open, the path of non duality. Thank you dear Swami ji 🙏🏼 pranam. Namo namaste

[@kyasamadhavi5380]

Entire teaching is so beautiful. Focus on 20.00 th min .. awesome. Guruji teachings transformed my life and turned me to a completely different person.

[@mitra463]

I am smashed by this insight..and how well articulated!

[@giovannacanineo8688]

I make my home here in this channel and I just gonna live here 4ever ... Gratitude!

[@dextercool]

One of Swami’s absolutely best talks ever!!!!!

[@cosmoshercules8436]

🙏 S S P. Complex things put in simple words/terms. I am reminded of a quote " The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple " Albert Einstein.... Every day I look forward to your talks. Thank you for being among us 🙏

[@mckartha]

Your words are so powerful, clear, simple, beautiful and convincing that imparts unity even in the minds of gross worldly people. Millions of pranams at your holy feet.

[@adv.madhusudananmp9045]

Pranams Swamiji ❤

[@ranadebray5440]

Wonderful teachings, Swami ji.

[@NewNormalDigital]

'Fearlessness is a sign of Enlightenment '... Wonderful

[@laika5757]

One of the best Gurus ever. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. ♎♋♌♍

[@vinaysr7044]

Princess of kashi .. what a great explanation 🙏

[@lucilekuriakose4591]

Swamiji, love to listen to your teaching. Such profound & deep message of nonduality & Advaita you have presented in such a way that even a lay person that i am could understand. Thank you swamiji.

[@Meditate_Manifest]

What a fantastic story narration of Princess of Kaashi. Yes directly applicable here for non duality😇

[@HarjotSinghphotography]

Hey what is your age?

[@antjeruprecht2775]

Thank you so much swamiji 🕉️🌞❤️

[@440SPN]

Pranam 🙏 pure teaching. Thank you

[@krishnabanerjee1307]

Khub bhalo laglo. Apurbo .

[@ramita5565]

I think that the most important clue that God has given to us in this game is the dream experience.

[@aniruddhasamanta4859]

Wonderfully said.

[@hinduhistory1407]

True!!

[@Bhargava95]

Indeed!

[@smilingface73]

Yeah true. Analyse dream state along with the state of deep sleep and the process that runs during waking up. Read the instructions of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

Take care that you don't become engrossed in the dream-world, or you may just add to your worries and troubles. The drama of life continues to keep us from being bored. It is also what causes suffering. Or, shall we say, the attachment to the idea of ourselves as a separate being living in a world of time and space, causes suffering. Transcend thought. You are not your thoughts. You are the witness of them. You are not your body. You are the witness of it. Fall back a bit and see that everything is contained within your consciousness. Who you really are is infinitely large. Consciousness changes (we go to sleep and dream) and this dream-world is still contained within consciousness. Consciousness changes (we fall into deep sleep) and there is no time, there is no world, there is no self, because there are no thoughts or objects. What sees all three states, waking, dreaming and deep sleep, is called Turiya. This is pure consciousness. And that is what YOU are. As swami says, "within who you really are, appears the waker and the waking world. Within who you really are, appears the dreamer and the dream. Within who you really are, appears the absence of the world, time, space, self. You do not exist, you are existence. You are not conscious, your are consciousness. You are not happy. You are bliss/peace. You are Atman. Atman IS Brahman.

[@balkrishnashinde9815]

May God give you a long ;long life .

[@baskaran4956]

Waker, dreamer, deep sleeper only three things in our life super

[@suryakantsingh5889]

Amazing lecture.

[@doctormanishsharma3411]

Real truth …lucky to listen 🙏🙏

[@valsalat9163]

Pranamam 🙏🏻🙏🏻 swamiji you are really a messenger of God from the treasure house of spiritual knowledge. Your shining words brightens up our minds. May God bless you. Thanks to all others behind this attempt 🙏🏻

[@sutirthabiswas6157]

Thank you so much🙏🙏

[@kaustuvhalder1602]

Thank you for demystifying the Upanishads and making it comprehensible for average viewers who wouldnt otherwise have access to such knowledge. The explanation of Non duality in this lecture is very easy to understand.