Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | June 18th, 2023

[@VedantaNY]

List of questions with timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 04:17 - All knowledge depends on the knower, known, and instrument of knowledge, yet we are taught that we are none of these. How can this be reconciled? 19:48 - If science can be used to know the self, does this mean that Vedanta is not a unique instrument for self knowledge? How can science be used for the study of something without objective qualities? 30:24 - How can we remove doubt? How is one guided to know Brahman clearly and continuously? 46:43 - How does one become a monk or nun? 48:56 - How do you explain the problem of evil within the realm of consciousness? 01:01:00 - Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know? 01:09:00 - Is consciousness everywhere, not just in living things? What is the glue that binds Brahman and Maya together? 01:18:35 - We are told we are one consciousness. Where does Karma come in? 01:25:49 - Will the witness, sakshi, register anything?

[@raghavendrankrishnamurthy5087]

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[@manojgowdacn2024]

But this advaita make me more ego person what is the solution

[@ranjitbisoyi]

गुरु ब्रह्मा गुरु विष्णु गुरु देवो महेश्वरः। गुरु साक्षात् परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः॥

[@rravi1045]

Each "Ask Swami" episode is an eagerly awaited event and Swamiji never fails to elevate and enlighten. To me, the show also gives a feeling of connectedness with seekers from all over the world. Though there are a number of questions and answers in each session, the common thread of Advaita helps in reinforcing the central concepts again and again from different angles. Thanks to Swamiji and the Vedanta Society of New York!

[@zealshah9]

Happy Guru Purnima to the Swami Sarvapriyananda ✨

[@akhitwr]

10:00 Reflected Consciousness

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji. Always stay blessed 💞

[@santoshregalla]

JAI SHREE RAMAKRISHNA JAI DEVINE HOLY MOTHER SHARADAA MAATHAA🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@manojrane6089]

कूलच❤❤❤

[@spikespiegel8642]

I cannot thank you enough swami. I am deeply humbled and amazed by this channel, it's like finding a box of elixir in the ocean of poison! Greeting from Vadodara, Gujarat, India

[@Vision_Of_Realities]

Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌟🙏🌺

[@ganeshbaskaran]

Koti Koti Pranams!!!

[@jorgetfreitas3167]

When you look for the "I" and you don't find it, it is because the "I" has found itself in pure consciousness. Thank you Swamiji for sharing these precious and luminous words.

[@mokshajetley9244]

Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

[@artofmetta7401]

Drive safe dear swami, i love u

[@amiraarora5002]

Grateful Swami Ji for this profound knowledge wrapped with love🙏🏼❤️

[@malakotsudhirkumar7381]

Fantastic inputs Swami ji

[@ashanair-qj6gk]

Pranam Swamiji ❤, Your very Existence is God Himself, what else is there other than Him.Where IAM not You don't exist !!!

[@manojrane6089]

डार्लिंग आनंदी गुरुपौर्णिमा🙏🙏🙏

[@anuragaggarwal2950]

Dear swami ji 🙏🏻. On today’s auspicious occasion of guru poornima, I would like to express my gratitude to you for imparting knowledge which really matters 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@keithnisbet]

Swami S showed incredible wisdom in his answer to the children. Tears in my eyes.🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@Deepak94]

Very beautiful satsang 👍🏾🙏🏾❤️

[@apratimchatterjee2411]

My humble obeisance at your lotus feet Maharaj on the auspicious day of Guru Purnima 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@robertoflores2078]

Pure gold, as always.

[@gristly_knuckle]

Probably a better use of my two hours than watching Das Boot, though I'll do both. I'll do both you bet.

[@jesseeglington2602]

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[@gristly_knuckle]

@@jesseeglington2602 , eckoloi.

[@Radostin-c5r]

Yes pure gold and pure awareness

[@malaselvarajah5398]

"Everywhere is in you Conciousness " ...love that !

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 As you mention always doubts which are asked by others clear my doubts also. Your explanations are always very insightful… Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this very useful session of Q& A🌹

[@lavanyabhadalkar290]

Om gurubhyo namah 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@hiranmoydas298]

প্রণাম মহারাজ!

[@balakrishnanramaneyah4921]

Happy Guru Purnima Swamiji❤

[@NivitaVerma]

Thanks to Swamiji's beautiful and clearly articulated answers/explanations, I had several "ah...got it" moments in this Q&A session.

[@trusharpatel3]

Thank you for everything Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj.🙏🏻

[@chekaimukhlps2305]

Charan sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so very much for breaking down so complex concepts into simple and understandable points. We are forever grateful to you.

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

Nectar of Nonduality....🙏

[@tinkybhardwaj6738]

Gratitude to you Swamiji on this guru poornima 🙏 I feel truly blessed to have an opportunity to hear your discourses Thank you 🙏🌹

[@Radostin-c5r]

God bless you

[@dr.biswajitroy2430]

Amar pranam neben🙏

[@TiyaSen1201]

46:43 you don't wanna miss the best question asked by the little one !!

[@santoshregalla]

SWAMI SARWAPRIYAANANDA❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹

[@pardips]

Many many Respects & pranaams to you swamiji on the auspicious occasion of guru purnima today 🙏🌺. Your teachings are priceless🙏🙏

[@pavelsmith2267]

Fear of pain untouched by experience? Pure consciousness as it becomes contacted with the sound of Wisdom.

[@krishnamurthimuthuswami3521]

Charana Vandana Swamiji!

[@joydeepghosh198]

Just Awesome session on knowledge based philosophy

[@caviper1]

Gracias Swami

[@thomasbrouwer2771]

Amazing session. There is nothing left to say really.. it is just gratitude for having lifelong questions answered with such clarity and elegance. God bless swami, the vedanta society and even KZbin for allowing this gems to be shared.

[@pavelsmith2267]

Perhaps Karma is the duty which one self must be responsible for throughout the quest to destroy evil. A this point!!! The crowd becomes, my lovely friend; Bloodthirsty.

[@santoshmohanty9148]

19/08/2023. Saturday. Om Satyam Gnyanam Anantam BRAHMAH.🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳⛳⛳🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@onlymelodic109]

Swami that was fire, I kindly offer my most heartfelt and sincere gratitude!

[@Aryachettri2023]

Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏🌹❤️

[@aninditamazumder1732]

Nanyah pantha vidyate ayanaya......pranam

[@grandiosegaurav]

It's cristal clear yet the questions ll arise later in time. That's why continuous hearing, dwelling are the prescribed sadhana in Advaita. In yoga/samkhya asanas and meditation are the prescriptions. Combining both is satisfactory because if I can't practice Meditation (samkhya) due to some urgent work I can still hear these teachings while driving meaning one way or other I am keeping track of my Sadhana pranmas swami🙏

[@dharmawoodmexico]

What a good talk!!! One of the best I ever heard in my life!! packed with profound concepts and examples. Good humor also!!! Blessing to you Swami!!!

[@riturastogi2067]

Pranam swamiji on gurupurnima 🙏

[@in_light.]

Always an enlightening talk, the questions asked and the answers and guidance Swami provides. Thank you! At 48:00 Swami tackles the question of evil again, and mentions (as he has before), at 52:00, the book *The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought* (it's not "in" Indian thought). Anyone looking for this book--the actual paper version--will face a challenge. There don't seem to be current editions of the book. Various original copies are out there but they are expensive (I'm not going to pay $80 for an edition, plus shipping, for example). I use soft copies/e-versions, but I'm still a person who likes to sit down with a book. As well, this is the type of topic where I don't want to be reading the bulk of it through a screen. You can find a copy of the book online, gratis. I found the First Edition: Delhi 1976, printed in India (in English). It's about 343 pages. I sought out the cheapest printing in my city (which happened to be near the major university, no surprise; cheaper than the city's libraries and any other printing outfit), put it on a USB, and had it printed. I even enlarged the pages so it's a little easier to read, and did 2-sided printing. With a clear cover and a nice back, and the "good binding" (coiled), it came to under 20 dollars. Cheaper than if I tried to get my hands on any edition I've seen online, and they are rare. (I'm surprised even my city's local library didn't have a copy of this, they have everything.) I should have done this sooner! Eager to read it, even just looking at the table of contents and skimming some of the content. Now I can sit down with the book and really dive in. And I have the PDF that I can have handy when I can't carry the book and have a moment to read, am waiting for something or someone etc. Cheers

[@mtuli9679]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@YVDurga]

Humble Pranams Swamiji 🙏 Very nice session, really enjoyed, thank u so much for ur wonderful insights 🙏🙇💐 Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏💐Jai Sri Swamiji 🙏💐

[@sseepersad5836]

Sita Ram Swami thank you so much , i cant go a day without your teaching ,God bless you.

[@UM8831-u8m]

Swamiji 🙏

[@samarpitadattagupta8193]

Namaskar Swamiji.

[@bless238]

Questions is properly solved when it dissolve.dhanyawad swamiji.

[@mpsibi]

The ultimate knowledge 🙏

[@I-Am-Aware]

I absolutely loved this video; thank you, Swami Sarvapriyananda. I particularly enjoyed the part at 1h 20, in which you shared the account of King Janaka--so relevant! Deep gratitude for all of the insights you share. 🙏🏻

[@jayatishrivastava854]

HAR HAR MAHADEVVVVVVVV❤❤❤

[@prabharpai6160]

Excellent answers to such intelligent questions... Pranaams Swamiji 🙏

[@GeetaAmrit-ob4ps]

🌼🌼🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼🌼🌼

[@kunalmuley09]

Everytime hear poojya swami ji I discover something new 🙏

[@smritirekhadas6057]

Pronams Maharajji 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 seek your blessings.

[@franco4928]

powerful talk, thanks swamiji

[@Svillase]

Oh, wow! Really good questions. Thank you very much Swamiji

[@swapankumarsarkar2722]

Pranam thakur pranam maa pranam Swamiji

[@bkgupta6356]

Very righly said swami. Help others will cleanse your mind and body ultimately soul realisation.

[@annakarl9989]

❤️ Thank you ❤ 😍🌹

[@nancyroche9637]

Thank you Swami and Diane🎉!! All the talks and q&a have been extremely helpful along this journey. We are free!! Happy 4th❤

[@mousumibanerjee59]

Pranam Swamiji.🙏🙏

[@sankarakrishnan8707]

Haha the questions are good and Swami just cuts through the confusion. Amazing ❤

[@prakashvakil3322]

Aatmiya DIVINITY Jay Thakur HARE KRSNA Experiencing amazingly JOYOUS AWARENESS participating in this session...... So many Questions and Answers...... # Unified field of Knowledge # Unified field of Awareness # Unified field of Consciousness 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@MofoWeedian]

Such a beautiful man.

[@swapankumarsarkar2722]

Pranam Swamiji

[@mukeshdesai2862]

4:17. Q. 👌 9:47. CRUX 12:10 13:30 14:05 15:12.Sunlight,moonlight ,earth at night 18:00. 😆 19:00. Summary 19:48 Q 21:00. A 23:07 23:55 👏 25:30. RXXXXX 27:30. AI 28:28 29:15. CS function 30:34. Q 31:54. A 33:32. Q 34:37. RXXXXX 36:05 I AM 37:10. 38:00. How do I know I am?38:48 41:00. Self evident+Self-luminous nature of “I am”/Pure Awareness. RXXXXX 45:04. RXXXXX. Understanding > clarity > conviction >manifested effortlessly 49:00. Q. Oneness and evil 49:50 A 51:20. 54:22 Karma. Evil’s cause is ignorance 56:00 57:35. Help 58:55 1:01:00. Q 1:01:30. Purusha Prakruti 1:03:09 1:04:45 1:06:45. 1:07:45 1:09:58. CS connection with life 1:11:10 SS 1:11:55. CS is everywhere, time, space 1:13:15. Q Glue between I and Maya 1:14:30. 1:15:30. RXXX 1:18:40. Q. A. You only exist! 1:20:10 Selling yourself short RXXXXX 1:21:30. Even karma is an illusion ( movie) per Advaita. RXXXXX 1:24:15 1:26:10. Q. Registering 1:26:30. Sankhya v Advaita

[@malaselvarajah5398]

❤ 🙏🏼

[@drsdm23]

namaskaram sri Swami JI 🙏🙏🙏

[@allnone4277]

Wonderful 🙌🙌✨

[@rusheelkumar1963]

🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇

[@erickbedoya435]

❤

[@sandunranasinghe5356]

👍

[@narendransiva8749]

Swami! You recently came to Mumbai for an event. If time permits do come to Madras we would love ❤ to have your darshan.. 🙏🙏

[@edelweisssymons7444]

I often wonder why the 'dream state' exists & what purpose it serves for the jiva.

[@I.Love.Krishna.Jai.Sri.Krishna]

🙏🙏

[@pavelsmith2267]

Sidenote: A totem has a front and a back side. A chakra has two sides. Each totem has seven chakra. Samrasta

[@pavelsmith2267]

I am 0:34 a talkative person amd do this alot. I write comments in some and many social media contacts!! I believe we as humanities children have acquired a precisely similar problem. Neurokinetics as it is performed through artificial intelligence attachments and nodes. Both in the physical and the virtual Worlds. So what? You maybe ask me so what. Well, I have a bright light in my mind and it seems to me many people as in accordance with observable satisfaction are pleased with my observations. Unfortunately for me; I have yet to disseminate in public. This is pain untouched by experience. These bright ideas I am fond of, hmmm.

[@vishnushabaraya2489]

Jai gurudev 🙏, please let me know what is not there in the dead body which was there in the living body and where it has gone.

[@ritadutta5594]

jivatma

[@pavelsmith2267]

I have it, this answer too. Akoshic Records are completely different and unattached to Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality is an alchemical process. Akoshic Records are sensory vibration of memory filter. With common and dissimilar outcomes yet the average experience is vastly paradoxical as compared.

[@AnaRodriguez-ry8ix]

🥰💙🌊🕯 🙏

[@onorg1]

1:03:30 min. Wait, technically i had no experience of: I AM, in the first 3 or 4 years of my life....but other than that this is so true, even superhigh on the strongest substance, having full blown chapter 11 hallucinations, 1 will never loose the sense of I AM. (Dont try this !!)

[@onorg1]

OK, maybe cause the memory was not functioning yet. But it feels like i was born with an age of 4, before is a blank

[@sandeepsaxena3364]

The IAM was there from the conception stage, just the instrument manifesting it was not mature enough. Or possibly we have no way/technology to interrogate the mind to confirm that? It is possible to stimulate the human brain and have people report sounds, experiences from the past that they have no conscious recollection of.

[@onorg1]

@@sandeepsaxena3364 There is another explanation, the brainwaves: From age 0 to age 2, the brain is in deep sleep brainwave, and the next 2 years, in dreams-brainwave.

[@onorg1]

the waking state starts at an age of 4.....which is consistent to memory.

[@sandeepsaxena3364]

@@onorg1 Maybe we are getting too stuck with the irrelevant? The equipment allowing us to recognise consciousness/awareness is just a tool. The important issue is to cognise the awareness and establish that.

[@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583]

Pranams Swamiji. Thank you very much 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@GGyan.UPSC.]

The more I show, the more I love, the more I think, the more I write, the more I do, What do I show, what do I love, what do I think, what do I write, what do I do, Why do I show, how do I love, why do I think, how do I write, how do I act, I give kisses, I love, I think, I write, I write, To whom I send gifts, to whom I love, to whom I think, to whom I write, to whom I write, May I win, may I die, Why did I win, why did I die, How can I win, how can I die, I kiss Jeeta, I kiss Marta, For whom I live, for whom I die, What have I won, what have I lost, Why am I Why am I May why why are you sorry How am I, why am I May I ask you why, For whom I am sorry, do i see do i cry do i smile do i remember Who feels my sorrow, Who experiences the happiness of death, I am am i why am i I said I belong to someone Who am I for how am i I said am i am Am I a slave to the mind Am I a slave of feelings, Am I a slave of thoughts, Am I a slave to memories WE ALL ARE ONE................ I mean we are all one, mind is consciousness. to::::::: what's up How do you wake up, What can I say? Why are you here? I have to take pictures, I am curious, we are not curious, I seek the Lord, we do not find us, We do not find us? What do you want to do, why do you wake up?::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Think? A person who never had eyes, A man who has never had ears, who has never heard anything, If you have ever been born, Who can live without food and sleep for 100 years, wah kaise sochta hoga, uski kya jigyasaye hogi, what a thought ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::; Is every particle infinite? Is this infinity a particle? probabilityy (praykta or sambhwana) What is Probability, What is the meaning of thinking of dreams, what is the meaning of the dream of the mare's dream, This probability, do I create, what probability do we share, Is the probability predetermined, So is this probability the future? So is this probability puzzle, To solve the first problem of Probability is Probability, if there is anything to do: This is the way I am feeling. I don't want to see my eyes, I am feeling like I am a puppy. How are you feeling, who is your soul, It's like my memories belong to someone else.

[@nilayanmajumdar9174]

This poem treads the fine line between genius and insanity

[@anupamsircar111]

Profound!!!

[@subhabanerji3658]

for organizing am busy n talked to known Uber who will be coming on wednesday n will be reaching At Triangular Park at Didi's house.. Then !!!

[@arindamdatta1880]

First of all pranam Maharaj. Self evident and self illuminious I just experiences outside world, body and mind through knower (mind), instrument (sense organs) and all objects. This is somewhat clear, as my mind thinks and brings peace and stability. But how i use it for betterment of mylife. Please enlighten But what we should do

[@rubabu]

Kindly add the following question (preferably a separate short video) Subject : famous 13 silence of The Buddha

[@saileelas1817]

Please give a talk on Upadesha Sahasri of Sri Shankara

[@pavelsmith2267]

Savrabrahmniyasananada. Is this the word for pain untouched by experience ?

[@deanrosenthal]

When you say, as Sarvapriyananda does when he speaks, “it’s just the way things are” - he does reveal a faith in, “the way things are.” But what is this, “the way things are” - although we all have doubt, so maybe it’s not doubt - he’s human, after all, and the error in accepting the confusion of how things are is, indeed, faith, not knowledge nor realization.

[@sandeepsaxena3364]

Hi Dean. That 'just the way things are' is Swamiji inviting you to experiment with the line of thought he posited (use the doubt to point back to 'who or what is doubting?' which will lead you straight back to consciousnesses). The words he used are not a belief, but observational reality. Apologies if the comment is confusing!