Third Session of Retreat on Ashtavakra Gita by Swami Sarvapriyananda

This is the third session of the retreat by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Ashtavakra Gita, a classical scripture on Advaita Vedanta. The scripture is based on sage Ashtavakra and King Janaka's dialog on the nature of soul, reality and bondage and the absolute oneness of Existence and Consciousness.

[@mikezubia8161]

I know I'm blessed because I've found advaita vedanta, truly spiritual nourishment. ashtavakra gita = freedom🙏😔

[@beachboxrealty]

So happy as well.

[@bhushanmatu4508]

With undying gratitude to Swami Sarvapriyananda. I have immensely benefited from Swamiji's excellent spiritual talks, please.

[@aanandamyogashala9970]

Not an easy work for you to make us understand but, You make everything so simple yet profound and joyful. Thank you very much Swamiji 🙏

[@venkattr]

Udoit. Uditchaiithanyalppp

[@mikezubia8161]

thank you vedanta society, truly🔥🌠

[@narsimha5648]

Feels like ashtavakra himself has come down as Swami Sarvapriyananda and delivered gita through his own words. Such a profound philosophy explained in such a lucid manner. Feels liberated . Param gurubhyo namaha Param gurubhyo namaha 🙏

[@lisalove511]

So blessed to be here for this and to meet swami sarvapriyananda in person. Thank you for your wisdom and insight

[@beachboxrealty]

Wow you got to see him in person!

[@lisalove511]

Lisa Penfield yes it was amazing 🙏🏻

[@jyotsnapathania9590]

Pranam swami ji

[@SreedharTatavarthi]

So much wisdom packed in to this video. You make it all so easy to understand with your insightful analogies, anecdotes and stories. It is truly a blessing to hear these Advaita teachings from you. Thank you Swamiji!

[@sleeperino3054]

Swamiji is undefeated 💯💯

[@jyotsnapathania9590]

Om shanti

[@saiashan4926]

Sairam Swami Sarvapriyananda ji I was watching your Ashtavakra retreat third day session 2019 little earlier march 18 2022. In the end you said just for 10 minutes feel just feel you are Brahman every day. It just clicked in an awesome way for me and i wish to share. I play keyboard as harmonium as pleasure. Love to just play swar , alaap, taane and bandish also of hindustani classical raags from a small book. I do have a back ground of some of those raagas. When i play i am in a different world all together. Nothing to get or achieve or become. Just Be. What i realized listening to your suggestion was that the different world of Inner Self is where the raag swar playing is taking me to and thats why i am completely lost and absorbed in it without any expectation or want or desire. That is the feeling of what you said just feel for ten minutes every day you are Brahman. Today i consciously stayed in that experience. What an absolutely awesome experience and a new way of Nidhidhyasnam. I feel beyond words to express this change to a new perspective. Thanks for that suggestion. It will be a new page in my spiritual journey what ever is left now. Sairam.

[@victoriahangula382]

Om Shanti, swami, this class is a great healing and a clear awakening. The great teaching is healing our wound of ignorance. Continue to spread truth 🙏

[@sagargiri2276]

WOW ! What a lovely temporary moment was this which I (the awareness) was aware of listening this awakening (true self revealing) discourse from great Ashtavakra (Many thanks to him) by the mouth of Great Swami Sarvapriyananda! No words to explain that experience of awareness that I (the awareness) was/am getting aware of and hence--> Maun (Silence) !

[@krishnabakshi6405]

Pranaam maharaj!

[@ashutoshkachare2534]

It is very good mediation method that desires arises in consciousness and vanishes in consciousness, still consciousness remains unchanged. Birth comes,health comes,name comes,fame comes consciousness does not increased by it.Similarly old age comes,dieses comes,dishonour comes loneliness comes consciousness does not decrease thereby. We are that consciousness. Our true nature remains untouched by the things happening in our little personal life

[@drnilimajain]

"Is this true or is that true?" - a good story. He explains very well 🙏

[@ssudhak2]

Its our ego which makes us to think there is a seperate world out there. When we lose this we understand what Swami is trying to say.

[@sarojinidash527]

🙏🏽 Swamiji makes us aware of both, the known and the unknown.🙏🏽

[@ashutoshkachare2534]

Yes. Swamiji makes us aware of both known and unknown. And also aware us knower which is true self.

[@thecompassoftruth4165]

Thank you Swami

[@sridhar24]

Thank you Swami Ji 🙏

[@prospero6337]

Remarkable

[@poojabhat4269]

Dis knowledge is v helpful in overcoming suffering.... 💗

[@rajaninambiar6444]

Radhe radhe Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

[@LynnYap]

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@vishalsinghrathore9989]

Thanks for sharing your experience 🙏❤️

[@pramodkadambi7705]

Beautiful and simple explanation of such a profound subject!

[@jagadeesh8719]

Consciousness (awareness) is the absolute truth which is present in the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states.

[@oln3678]

The best lecture 👌

[@hindurebel]

Really Beautiful!

[@uttamdookhoo1]

Thank you so much

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

39:00 How bold! The verse! California immortality business cryopreservation etc ...

[@jameskuttyjoseph656]

What madness it is to preserve the body..As long as the body is living, we will strive for happiness. The opposite polarity of unhappiness will follow. This is Nature's Rule. Budha is right.

[@rosappan]

Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏

[@jshdhdyjfjdjfhfyyene731]

Avadutha Gita: I am indeed that pure consciousness. Oh blessed one, oh beloved consciousness how am I to bow down the Self in my self. In what methods is this to be performed; for only Self is? ...and along comes Bhakti based in Advaita (non-duality hidden behind the veil of a so called dualistic construct) in an ecstatic celebration on the realisation of the Self

[@TheGayathrich]

what can I say about Swamiji, he has assimilated all of Vedanta philosophy and explains it to us in such a lucid way🙏🏻

[@c.n.reddychokkam5044]

Pranam Swamiji. Trying to understand slowly.putting into practice will be a blessing.

[@theera5145]

28:44 saved this bc it made me laugh. Thank you swami and the Vedanta Society, I appreciate you sharing these.

[@varshavora7390]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

19:35 shortcut: believe you're already enlightened and behave accordingly

[@nurpinner8502]

🙏💜💫

[@sumanjoshi7902]

Where is the second session? Please post it.

[@johnathanedwards8430]

Advaita Vedenta is the answer to our deepest and most sort after question, what am ?

[@johnathanedwards8430]

What am I?

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

42:03 I'll accomplish everything I want, what has the body got to do with it, I am AWARENESS ITSELF!

[@TheGayathrich]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

25:02 mahavakya! Jnana Swaroopa Bhagavan Atma! Unity of Jiva and Iswara

[@geethab.k8985]

Excellent

[@pratikpatil6342]

EMI : Empty, Momentary, Impermanent

[@koelipal8375]

South e kothai hoy?

[@kris13iam]

WOW 🙏💓🙏💓🙏💓🙏💓🙏

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

42:39 so many bodies and minds fluctuate and come and go all is matter the Reality of all these people is Awareness which does not die only the matter dies... happiness and suffering is all matter ... fear of death (Denial of Death by Ernst Becker)

[@ramavarapu1]

Nice...

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

50:02 in You the infinite, edgeless, boundaryless ocean of Awareness, the universe is like a wave.

[@shobhanilgupta6600]

Swami gi I am listening your videos can I study ashta vakra gita on line by you

[@omprakashagrawal5885]

Swami ji pranam the subtle body survives the death of physical body then where does it stay til it gets another body and how to relate it to the previous life

[@kris13iam]

The wave "returns" to the ocean.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

39:06 God is only giving us this lecture!!!!!! (Just look at what the mind thinks)

[@DewanandSahu01]

How to realise that? Believe vs realisation !!

[@sreeladevi1780]

Maharaj dear, whic is easier fr us ? .... is it :- 'perceived on Conscious' ness' or 'perceived in & by Consciousness ' ?

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

47:34 even when we dream there is a known world and unknown world! All potentiality and actuality is contained in the mind. Similarly, here it's literally true!

[@gaddikerimuthuprakash4676]

1🙏

[@nagarajsami3140]

Swami one question. If consciousness present in both life and in matter. Then can we take matters also a body for incarnation? Pls clarify.

[@shrikrishnadeore1199]

Nagaraj san mind body complex is not present in non living things thus consciousness Cannot experience itself in non living things.

[@shrinivashukeri447]

Atma anatma cannot be same one in which brahman in the form of atman another which is formed by brhman but not residing as atman

[@ravindrareddy8536]

Life is not needed for consciousness it exists independently with or without, in non living things it is not expressed but it exists as in a seed, dormant

[@ravindrareddy8536]

Yes but why, get moksha and go beyond the limitation of a body

[@gireeshneroth7127]

The ego knows itself by way of memories. Otherwise ego would have been a stranger to itself always.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

37:02 Swami Tapasyanandaji said Buddhism is a serious religion. Body comes stays and goes. Awareness is always aware ...

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

41:00 OBJECTS ARE EMPTY ... if you hold on to an object, you will be trapped ... Swamiji so lovingly says NEVER DO THAT

[@maheshjain376]

Pranam Guruji, I have grasped your point on Consciousness, But what is the purpose of body & what is the purpose of consciousness Why is there water & waves... There must be purpose of object & consciousness.

[@ravindrareddy8536]

There is no purpose you have to make up one for yourself, when you are God what is the use of a purpose, be

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

17:49 The grand verse!!!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

41:55 every night when I'm dreaming the body disappears and no problem because it wasn't real ... BOLDNESS STRENGTH ... I gain nothing I lose nothing be fearless ... BUT ONLY IF I KNOW MYSELF AS CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF!!!!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

50:04 by fame I am not increased, by suffering I am not decreased.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

39:15 if my body breaks by slamming a pole accidentally, its nothing different from accidentally breaking a cup by slipping on a wall. YOU ARE ALREADY IMMORTAL!!!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

45:00 The great verse!!!!! Next verse!!!!

[@sidg7435]

What is difference between mind and awareness...we may call awareness as mind. We do not know the boundaries of mind. How can we limit mind to thoughts, memories etc. This needs clarity...

[@kris13iam]

Mind is impermanent and thus not Consciousness which is permanent.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

24:00 are you the body? Is body theoretical?

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

39:00 We are safe, we are unscathed

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

41:49 let it live for eons or let it die today!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

46:05 okay "WHAT IS THE LIMIT OF YOUR AWARENESS?"

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

40:08 my body wants to drink milk or eat cookie, it's like a new car wanting to get gas, and then the body will be an insured car and then a vintage car and then rusting car

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

36:00 Buddha was not a pessimist, he was an optimistic. All of these teachings say there is a solution to these problems! Across the board all philosophies!!!!

[@vee985]

I am Brahman!

[@akashkalyanashetti8909]

52:00

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

32:01 how to deal with death? Verse!

[@DewanandSahu01]

Aham brahmasmi I am brahman

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

58:50 Janaka "stick is mine" story hahaha

[@markf2720]

Why is that other guy sitting next to him? he should be sitting in the audience ...

[@kris13iam]

He's the head Swami of that temple and thus up front.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

29:40 check by the time you're out of here ... hahahaha one present you can take from here ... go out and try it now ... YES MUST WATCH!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

33:18 Sharira (body) means "that which is continuously falling apart". We can guarantee you'll live long, not live well. Body is a pile of walking talking dead empty matter.

[@accessrajesh]

Delusions cleared.

[@sangitamashalkar8452]

Z

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

43:44 ah! You dont think about it, which is the real problem! Immortality projects most commonly is family or children or corporation or write a book called Denial of Death and RELIGION also "assurance that there is a God who will save us from death", ultimately RELIGION IS CORRECT, but Astavakra is a more direct approach ... all good and bad that people do is because of fear of death

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

55:47 The grandest verse!!!

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

22:00 how does mother know you're her baby hahahahaha

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

48:33 Bill is feisty, 95 years old, WW2 veteran, and biophysicist, doesn't buy this. The room and camera and thought experiment.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

42:18 imaginary and "real" body are equally valueless ... the AIs and science fiction and all of it as a whole are dreams within dreams within dreams... bharat uncle is also Awareness ...

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

1:01:01 "asamsari" is God, Iswara. Person is consciousness identified with body mind, God is consciousness identified with the entire universe. In your real nature you are neither God nor a person, you are Nirguna Brahman.

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

38:04 why do we bemoan the body is dying, it sounds ridiculous! It's meant to die! What else will it do, it's supposed to die ... what is it to you? YOU ARE UNSCATHED!

[@shantanuselokar6357]

Imagine meditating on Ashtavakra Gita while high on LSD

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

28:41 hahahaha nondualists drive theists wild ...

[@markf2720]

The other guy sitting there just ruined the visual..couldnt concentrate on the swami. He is really very distracting If he didnt learn in 65 years where he should be sitting during a lecture...then what has he learnt in his life...and what can he teach others?

[@drnilimajain]

Try to concentrate on your growth and your evolution with your awareness. The 1st step is to let everything and everyone be. Being distracted by surroundings and being judgmental is a hindrance your mind creates.

[@krishnakantamukherjee5728]

আপনার তপস‍্যা আমায়বোধ গম‍্য করাচছেসবিনয় পরনাম

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

All that negativity....it's just a hindrance. Let it go. It's not the swami that annoys you. It's YOU that annoys you.

[@TheGayathrich]

🙏🏼🙏🏼