Meditation in Kashmir Shaivism - विज्ञान भैरव | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on meditation in Kashmir Shaivism as part of a retreat in Garrison, New York.
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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.

[@MokshaDharma]

If I had a trillion dollars and could do anything anywhere on earth, I would attend this lecture. When saturday night comes around and I consider all the things I could do, the only thing that sounds exciting is studying with the swamis and practicing the meditations.

[@blombergk]

Agree 👍

[@priyamastibhati]

Blessed You Are.

[@MrBiswas123]

❤

[@gaurav.mittal]

Fortunately you don’t need trillion dollars and you can still do it with any dollar

[@bharatmistry812]

Ikl

[@ooocha1]

I practice Kashmir Shaivism, listen to Swami Laksmanjoo every day. You're discourse was refreshing and full of awareness. Aum jum sa amritesvara Bhairavaya namah. Love and Blessings

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Swami Laksmanjoo

[@anishkoppikar6789]

How do you “practice” Kashmiri Shaivism?

[@cm6534]

​@@anishkoppikar6789 troll

[@Garrick645]

Please tell me where I find lectures on this.

[@danielholman7225]

I really like Swamiji’s enthusiasm. He’s very uplifting and of course knowledgeable.

[@mahendranmylvagnam4665]

S i77

[@subhashchabbaOM]

Yes

[@thespiritofdragon6658]

"Om" lead us from unreal to real, lead us from darkness unto light, from death to immortality. Om peace peace peace 🙏

[@pokegamers3916]

This was totally fantastic.swami ji have u interacted with shaiva scholar swami Lakshaman joo of kashmir.ur narrations were very Lucid & pleasing to mind.Request for ur mail Id/mobile With profound reverence Prof Thussu,,,,kashmir

[@waldwassermann]

Om Prem...

[@user-bv9sc7bj1e]

This practice has transformed my life. I was a hardcore drug user for 20 years, after a spiritual experience I stopped using but still felt awful for months. I stumbled upon Tantra which led me to this. When I awakened Kundalini, I felt this surge of energy and bliss that I didn’t think would last, yet every time I practice this practice, I feel this electric bliss creep up my spine and I actually see the Shakti when I meditate. It’s as if light and sound becomes one and my body is inseparable from the space around me. This is powerful stuff, no drug comes close.

[@luckylemur6449]

you mean the practice of Ham Sa meditation?

[@madhumathivs7612]

We must have earned a lot of punya in our previous lives to learn these deep philosophies from Swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lesmonkmorison2828]

No doubt about that

[@binitasahoo3872]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂

[@lesmonkmorison2828]

@@binitasahoo3872 something funny madam?

[@binitasahoo3872]

@@lesmonkmorison2828 No NO CONTINUE SEEING, I HAVE NO PROBLEM BUT I WAS LAUGHING YOU ARE SEEING A FAKE ADVAITIN WHOSE PHILOSOPHY COMPLETELY CONTRAD8CTING TO THE REAL ADVAITA VEDANTA

[@lesmonkmorison2828]

@@binitasahoo3872 ohk... Lets say i decide to give you the benefit of the doubt... Just because i am feeling generous today... Could you enlighten us on the real Advait Vedant please? (and loose the caps lock)

[@Saurabh_Mediyum]

For rewinding to specific parts : 4 उपाय : 37:00 Anupaya : 38:00 Direct illumination Shambhavupaya: 40:30 Attempt to realize by oneself Shaktiupaya : 41:25 Way of the मंत्र Anvaupaya : 46:46 Method based on individual being About सोहम मंत्र method : 01:01:15 Guided meditation Following a sound method : 01:19:55 सोहम method : 01:28:30

[@ART7N23]

Thanks for this.🙂🙃☺️

[@ellenabadian]

Thanks

[@candacevavra3063]

Thank you Swamiji...your scholarism is impressive! Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism are similar...I like the simplicity of Advaita but also the radicalism of Shiva, and since I have no physical guru, I have always considered Shiva to be my guru, because Shiva said he would accept anyone who asked him, and so I asked him. Plus, I love the sunflowers behind you!

[@karankhaitan7923]

You seem to be more predisposed towards a devotional path.

[@hseeker]

Hes my best friend almost older brother like isht deva and I consider him my teacher aswell he is the ultimate yogi the entire creation came from him and all returns to him. ❤️

[@vrtraha]

Krishna is my guru

[@musiclover9433]

What a teacher Swamiji is! It takes a lot of internal clarity to understand something and present it so lucidly. I had "studied" Kashmir Shaivism and came out with the conclusion that this really is "Advaita with different names for reality" It takes someone like Swamiji who can help you understand and appreciate the subtle differences. Makes spiritual paths so much richer and joyful. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ironhead108]

Thank you for this! Har har Mahadev, brother! 🧡🕉🧡

[@sreedevimuraly3138]

Hariohm swamiji.🙏.I feel very blessed to go through.

[@ganeshshukla1284]

Har har mahadev 🙏😊 bro

[@muraliramachandran4068]

Hari Om Swamiji! Feel blessed listening to you!🙏🏼

[@bumlehri]

This method of meditation is called kali sadhna as taught by sage vashishta 🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏

[@markbest9502]

I have been a student of Christopher Hareesh Wallis for over a year and Kashmir Shaivism, Trika Shaivism, or Nondual Shaiva Tantra is my practice. OM!

[@garypuckettmuse]

Well you must, therefore, be finding Swami's talks very highly interesting and edifying.

[@markbest9502]

@@garypuckettmuse I do indeed! This is a wonderful explanation of how tantra fits into Ramakrishna's philosophy. Swami Sarvapriyananda has a solid understanding of Tantr. I am impressed.

[@LucidEnergyArts]

Hareesh is initiated into same yoga I practice, Siddha Yoga! SMKJ!

[@piyushraj2327]

Is tantric sex a real thing or just a myth ?

[@LucidEnergyArts]

@@piyushraj2327 Tantric sex is a made up thing. It dates back to as early as 1904 and was popularized by a German.

[@mimiseton]

Beautiful speaker. Great English, for starters. Clear. But such a lovely spirit too: upbeat. And fun! Humorous. The perfect speaker for this philosophy.

[@Chandan_UMICH]

Ramakrishna Param"Hamsa"... A new perspective

[@yogendratiku6339]

It is also said that " Hansa", the bird has the quality of separating Milk from the water. That's what we do as well. Separate the Gyan from Agyan.

[@Rakeshsharma-hg7it]

As in other talks, Swami Sarvapriyanandji once again explained a difficult thing in simple words. Kotishaha Dhanyawad

[@michellevonkoch5570]

"The jar (is one with myself at the time of my desire to know and therefore)knows as one with myself. I am one with the jar in knowing. ...It is Siva alone who abides knowing Himself through all the existents." Abhinava on verse 105 of Vijnanabhairava. Oh, Swamiji, like a few others commenting here, for years, I have longed to hear you talk about Shaivan nondualism. This is a great gift. Thank you.

[@chnnlsrfr3873]

Thank you for the correct spelling.

[@umalaurenbowman7276]

Great topic, very interesting lecture! Shaivism and Shiva are such a big part of Indian spirituality, I agree with other comments that it'd be great to do more lectures on this topic. It does bother me thou that life on Earth is depicted here so negatively and compared to a jail. It's a jail only if you make it so. Nature and even life itself are actually stunningly beautiful, part and parcel of Shiva. Thank you

[@imranhassan1212]

Life on earth is jail if we will not focus on Shiva.

[@hseeker]

Yes it may sound negative but its really not. A jail is fit for he who committed the crime, life is so if you look at the world there is undeniable suffering and misery we are constantly seeking relief we just dont know where to look some do and we call them swamis, yogis etc. And they in turn tell us where to look those who wish to see shiva he is the sources and end of all its not that we aren't in a jail. Its that we've come to see jail as a sort of punishment rather than a chance at something. ❤️

[@SelfSeeker]

Once one starts to practice meditation and start to feel lighter and lighter, the only thing they feel bounded by is the body. You don’t feel like coming out of the bliss yet you are forced to. I am saying this based on my personal little experience where these fears and anxieties which are nothing but body’s chemical reaction makes us feel miserable and pull us down. So yes it’s a jail

[@anbukkarasimanoharan775]

I realised my True Self as Illumination in my heart when I took Lord Shiva as my Ishta Devata though he is only Saguna Brahman. But with His blessings I realised Supreme Consciousness as I Am.

[@ritingkardatta4852]

Nirgun nirakar are two names of Lord Shiva mentioned in every Sahasranama about him that is written till now the context here is the dancer is the Nirgun nirakar and the dance is Shagun Sakar but a dancer cannot exist without a dance and dance doesn't exist without a dancer a dancer can choose either to dance or not that is the only question that undermines so Lord Shiva on what we call shift at 1 has nothing to do with their Shagun Shakur in its absolute or Nirgun nirakar in its absolute because as long as the cosmosis the Nirgun is playing with the Sagun self and at the end even that will stop

[@vijnanabandhu2167]

*Abhinavagupta’s description of Kashmir:* Where people normally are poetic and wise, Where even warriors are articulate, Women of cities are lustrous as the moon And charming in their gait, Where accomplished female practitioners of yoga are Bright as the spark of fire Particularly due to the complete opening of the path of the shushumna nerve in them they are also lustrous as the sky in the state of the lunar eclipse Where the wine known as madrika Brings maturity in the talk of love of lovers In which part of the world people get engaged Confidently and unobstructed in the fare of love Where the Gods take interest in remaining engaged in the delight of the chakras and where departs the joy of life and blessedness of liberation where contemplative practiotioners of yoga, munis dwell at various spots And where does Shiva dwell himself all the time. I therefore consider Kashmir As the proper place of yogic accomplishments Siddhi there is no place on the whole of this earth Which may compare with Kashmir in this respect Nor in the respect of contentment or fulfilment of all aspirations.

[@SelfSeeker]

Kashmir should regain its old glory

[@sanathdr]

God singing his own name. All I have to do is to just sit and listen. 🙏

[@jampuppy]

Do you know who he was referring to? I think he said Kapil Das?

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Yes!!

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Om Namah Shivaya, Love, Jonas

[@tattwamasi8613]

Shivasutras Spandakariya Trantraloka Pratyabhigyahridayam Vijnanabhairava ....above are books that Swami Ji mentions.🙏

[@simitha6035]

You know that when you never heard something before and suddenly it's everywhere?

[@lesmonkmorison2828]

could you explain further?

[@azman6568]

?

[@nishantbhaskar7685]

It's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.. or it could be a divine revelation coercing you to follow that path

[@lesmonkmorison2828]

@@nishantbhaskar7685 lol i think its mostly the former

[@cheetahvolcano]

The vijnanabhairava?

[@Yeshedzogchen]

And Please more of Bhairav Tantra! Namaste! Thank You! Tashi Delek! 😊😍🌈

[@moonn56789]

I have found my true nature Swami ji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏now my journey is to go deep within ....thanks a lot guruji 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

[@ubaidahmadnaik941]

How have found it please share

[@moonn56789]

@@ubaidahmadnaik941 along listening sarvapriyananda ji ....plz daily read bhramagyanavali mala and nirvan shatakam and try to explore who am i ....with the help of what i am not........by and by with the time u will must find your true nature.......🙏🙏🙏

[@ubaidahmadnaik941]

@@moonn56789 what is that? I have no idea,,I'm ex-Muslim Atheist I find advita Vedanta philosophy interesting,,, please help me further I'm reading avadhuta Gita nowadays🙏

[@moonn56789]

@@ubaidahmadnaik941 google these both ....and affirm both daily

[@ubaidahmadnaik941]

@@moonn56789 thanku so much💕

[@madafakaaaaaaaaa]

Such a beautiful talk! Thank you so much!

[@user-88800]

🙏🏼 Thank you for telling people the truth without misdirection.. Unlike all those sadgurus, oshos poshos etc teachings you point out to are pure and pristine. 🙏🏼🍵

[@austin426512]

Osho has been a great teacher, only few understood him well. His teachings are very deep

[@solelysoul8543]

Whenever we don't "understand" the perennial philosophy as explained by Osho or posho, the fault lies with US. Spirituality is to be EXPERIENCED, SELF-REALISED and not understood.

[@criticalcarebasicsbydrchai4807]

Very true

[@RahulYadav-xi1bt]

He is right about osho & Sadhguru. They were not enlightened. Osho was well read, great speaker. Nothing else. Sadhguru copy osho but not controversial as him.

[@jyotiraina2887]

In Kashmiri language with ref to Bhairaav Bharun is filling and ravun is losing. Prayers on Shivratri are to Shiva as Bhairava.

[@apurva_joshi_]

Waiting really long for this

[@loveenaluximon5184]

Thank you so much Swamiji for making this video public 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@shalurao1]

Prostrations Revered Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

[@niyaivanova1193]

I've been waiting a long time for this! Thank you!

[@kalyanchaithanya7460]

Swamiji u r an avataar connecting all to one.U r truly necessity of kali kaal.pranams,prayers.

[@tmprasadtm5148]

Ditto

[@janu314]

So great! Thank you Swamiji! Om Tat Sat!

[@janetownley]

Excellent and wonderful 🙏🏻

[@sakuntalaramaswamy8230]

One of the Most Beautiful enumeration of our Philosophy and the Greatness of Kashmir as an Epicenter of Shaivaism. !!

[@sundeepkoul6065]

HH Swami Lakshmanjoo Maharaj was a great master of Kashmiri Shaivism.

[@mariofialho]

I was enlightened by this transmission. Shiva came to me. Thank yo guruji.

[@maitreyabadra2267]

For how long?

[@someshwarbose]

Aaah at last the much awaited lecture on Kashmir Shaibism! My regards to you Swamiji. Please give lecture on Shivasutra

[@nitinkumar-nj7qo]

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[@Yeshedzogchen]

Thank You! Please more of This 😊😘🙏❤️🌈😜😍💐

[@pratimashukla3259]

Thank you so much for wonderful teachings and experience 🙏

[@sandeepthakur8924]

Was eagerly waiting for this since i heard abt Vignana Bhairava in Swami Ji Mindfullness video.....Thnk u...

[@jigold22571]

Eternal Gratitude and Appreciation. 🙏🌈💛🌈🙏

[@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182]

Thank you Swamiji. Beautiful and fascinating as usual. You are truly the most wonderful teacher. I am a westerner, learning more and more through daily Vedanta videos.🙏🙏🙏

[@reshmadixit8135]

बहोत बहोत धन्यवाद. ठाकूरजीकी कृपाशिर्वाद आपपर हमेशा बनी रहे.

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत्| श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु 🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta society New York for sharing this 🌹

[@vasukinagabhushan]

Swamiji talks are amazing and illuminating. 🙏🏿

[@johnnybongo9208]

The ancient book being read is Vijnana Bhairava. In grace beloved. Atma Bodha, Ohm Nama Shivaya. Peace peace peace art I.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Om Namah Shivaya

[@way2vikrampotdar]

Wonderful ,thanks for the good equipment used for this lecture please use similar equipment always. He reflects Swami Vivekanand in many ways ,blessed soul.

[@priyakrishnamurthy13]

Swamiji.. you are the best🤗 many thanks !

[@morganhunt1155]

Wonderful talk, pranams to Swamiji🙏🙏🙏 I will note that the powers emerging from Shiva in this order are:Svatantrya(complete freedom), Ananda Shakti, Icca Shakti(will), Jnana Shakti(knowledge), Kriya Shakti(action in the manifest world) And they are the same, the energy is the same unit, it just transformed from freedom to a ripple in the Bliss that became will then knowledge then action. Abhinavagupta teaches that action is verily knowledge.

[@angikashree6863]

Pranam Swami ji.....Just listening your commentaries drags me towards meditation.Your words are like a form of meditation.

[@rajansatheesannair6026]

Pranam Swamiji.

[@muktidaam5140]

Swami ji... pranams Shaivism an inexplicable experience of ones true nature

[@maheshseshadri490]

Thank u so much Swamiji for a wonderful session. 🙏

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Om Namah Shivaya

[@wisdom9811]

VERY BEAUTIFULY, EXPLICITLY AND SIMPLY EXPLAINED. GREAT. INDICATES DEEP SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. BESIDES TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE.

[@injacksbox]

Samsara 1:33 Philosophy, Shivaism, Vedanta 10:35, 17:54 4 Approaches 35:45 Soham Mantra 1:01:15 Mentions Mantras 1:08:50

[@maitreyabadra2267]

So what?

[@govindarajulu-kasturi9614]

Greetings. Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful discourse & guidance to Mankind by Revered Swamiji. Pranaams & regards to Swamiji. Kasturi G

[@tanukagupta8416]

PRONAM neben Maharaj!! 🙏🌹🌷🌹🙏

[@talksofdharma2466]

Today not even a single Kashmiri Shaivate lives on Kashmir after Genocides of 1990.

[@creatorlight4346]

😭

[@aryanraina1076]

well, a very small number of hindus are there some run lakshmanjoos ishwar ashram in srinagar so there are still a few. Some kashmiri pandits still live in kashmir and are shaivites but very few.

[@LucidEnergyArts]

They lived underground in secrecy there for 1000 years, quietly transcribing and copying ancient scrolls. I don’t think that’s changed any! We have to remember that it’s only been 100 years of freedom for them in the last thousand.

[@magnumopus7199]

I've been following Igor Kufayev as well as the Lakshmanjoo Fellowship. Such profound insights.

[@TheGayathrich]

Swamiji your knowledge is immense, thanks, i’m overwhelmed to take a drop from the ocean of your knowledge at a time, we are blessed and you’re the blessing

[@Chandan_UMICH]

Totally immersive.... Wonderful 😌

[@teachereducation5425]

Thank you Swamiji for such a crystal clear explanation. Indeed we are blessed with good prarabda karma to learn about this Shiva and Sakthi philosophy and medidate upon HaMSa. 🙏🙏🙏

[@amitabhadan8023]

Thank you Maharaj for practical demonstration.

[@profrajkumarisinha3777]

My pranam to Swami ji for such an explanation of Kashmiri Shaivism

[@ushams8268]

Pranams & Thank You, Sir....🙏🙏🙏

[@ranjithsekharan1191]

Thank you Guru for your simple and powerful meditation diksha 🙏🙏🙏

[@csksangee]

Beautiful overview of the Vignyana Bhairava concept Thanks for teaching us a nice and powerful meditation technique which can be practiced everyday. Awesome.

[@frederickmagill9454]

What a wonderful teacher. Namaste guruji.

[@janukisarcar5430]

Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏

[@somiatmaram5775]

🎊Thanks Swami Sarvapriyananda👍for this useful Presentation👌Effective & impressive💐💐💐

[@nakulpri]

Pure gold, this is!!

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Swami Laksmanjoo

[@ankitanand143]

I'll watch it later....just saved it to the playlist

[@joseluiskashmir]

Thanks for your clear exposition of kashmir saivism. Thanks to Jaideva Singh for his work on this world.🙏💝🙏

[@Modern_Nandi]

Much awaited!

[@bsr8255]

Thanks Guruji !! 🙏🙏🙏

[@myspiritualjourney-hm4624]

Thank you swamiji for familiarizing us with Kashmiri Shaivism. It also appears to be effective in showing the Jiva the TRUTH.

[@djl9731]

Thank you!!!

[@mangalampallirkumar3638]

Wonderful explanation of saivasim by swamiji to know about the subject very rarely explained by Hindu scholars to devotees/seekers of truth.

[@DeepakSingh-pr3ry]

There are no such approaches for one who approached , he simply plays with it by teaching it to others .. om namah shivay

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Om Namah Shivaya

[@Ushamurthy8831]

Swamiji🙏

[@keshavamurthy5782]

Pranam Swamiji

[@ooocha1]

I enjoyed your presentation, and intend to watch you again. Thank you Swamiji.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Swami Laksmanjoo

[@paulmilligan2657]

Thank you for the fantastic teaching...I thought Samsara was a state of being without beginning or end, eternity...the end of stress... My apologies for my ignorance...it is a beautiful feeling to be learning divine Innerstanding everyday ✨️ 🔥

[@ajithkumar-fx4iv]

thank you swamiji 🙏🙏

[@shantashanta1363]

ThankYou 🙇‍♀️🙏

[@kennethshaw7411]

🙏❤🙏 I now go to Swami Sarvapriyananda to make every Darshan comprehensible

[@sapvvv]

I hope some day i meet you in person, listen to you and seek your blessings...OM...i pray

[@raghavchaudhary5748]

Swamiji one request - please have a discussion on the Shiva Sutras as well.

[@jimmykudo5836]

My most fav video right now. Shivoham

[@girijakaul4610]

SWAMI JI STAY BLESSED

[@dinkar-businesscoach2211]

Thanks you Swami Ji

[@aksharma4304]

Happy Thoughts....

[@tolifeandlearning3919]

Thanks Swamiji for sharing this knowledge with us.

[@satinath7658]

Pronam Swamiji

[@vedavatiatre1462]

🌹🙏Thank you.

[@NJ752]

Many many thanks .. was looking to read Kashmiri Shavisim .. glad to listen from Swami in very explanable form 🙏🙏🙇🏻‍♀️

[@PracticalWisdomPhilosophyDS]

Thank you for this .🌼🙏

[@sureshs5808]

Love you from Karnataka swamiji

[@Arun-mh7br]

प्रणाम गुरु जी!

[@aninda2457]

Maharaj Pranam ! You have explained it so beautifully. Thank you very much for teaching us the various paths and traditions of Sanatan Dharma in simple ways so that we understand correctly.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Om Namah Shivaya