The Ultimate Truth Q&A | Swami Sarvapriyananda

[@goelhardik]

Questions asked: 00:12 - How does the Vedantic standpoint compare with the scientific standpoint of the Big bang? 08:54 - If everything including Vedanta is an appearance, how can true knowledge be attained by studying it? 24:10 - How do we see Brahman as existence itself and not just something that exists? 31:46 - If consciousness itself is beyond feelings, then how is consciousness's nature blissful? Contradictory? 41:25 - There is so much bondage with experiences as we have been having so many experiences for such a long time, it's difficult to break away from it. Is there some methodical way we can follow to achieve that?

[@kumaraswamy2164]

Hardik Goel thanks

[@dextercool]

Thank you - keep up the good work.

[@noneall]

Hardik Goel thank you so much for your efforts 🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@huuu9809]

Thank you fellow traveler.

[@ananda224]

Bliss is the word we use to describe it's nature, and it would be the closes description from the stand point of the mind. However, ananda is not an emotion or feeling and is hard to describe from a non-dual perspective. It's like the nature of a kind person is to be kind. They don't need to feel anything to know that they are kind, kindness is just their being and this is reflected in how they express this kindness. It's the same for our nature. The Self does not experience bliss, bliss is the nature of it's being and this bliss is why it is the way it is.

[@varunshenoy1906]

Thank you Swamiji 🙏 Blessed to hear your teachings

[@gopalakrishna5721]

Thanks for uploading this Q and A session. Pranams to Guruji. Very much enlightening.

[@vb2556]

This like going into trance.... Just listening to you is enough... Thanks

[@tirjak535]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is his entirety is the ultimate truth. I love his talk - clear and precise ! As I said before, he is the ultimate flag bearer of the Society.

[@Thetaleswithin]

Charan Sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so much for answering all our questions and bringing us into light.

[@ajitkumardas7561]

Beautiful. I love your concept of brahman. Jay Sri Ramakrishna Jay Maa Jay Swamiji.

[@adv.madhusudananmp9045]

Pranams Swamiji ❤

[@aksharma4304]

Happy Thoughts, शुभेच्छा।।

[@babukolappan4387]

Excellent session.Pranams swamiji

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻 Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏻

[@theeternal6890]

om

[@taonow369]

At 27:58 the awareness of thought is huge. We are aware of our thoughts, we are not our thoughts. They are objects just like a object in the “outer” world we are that which is aware. Perfect , beautiful example

[@sanskritx]

Pranaams!...Such clarity and fluency in explaining the most abstract & difficult of concepts to grasp!...thanks a million!

[@theeternal6890]

same feeling here..this is the intelligence of a gyani

[@gopalakrishna5721]

Consider yourself as very fortunate since you listened to Swamiji`s discourse.

[@indrajitbhowmik4507]

Pranams to Revered Maharaj. The teachings of Gaudapada gives enormous joy. This appears to be the highest order of philosophy Man can ever think of. Again with devoted pranams.

[@PrakrutiPatel1708]

Swamiji 🙏 U unfolded the infinite truth of existence Self Realization 😊🙏 Mind is the tool for you , you are not made for the mind 👍😊Mind lies u, rules u, misguide u, etc but you are beyond it..and the controller of your own mind.

[@MysticOnMission]

Thanks to Swamiji and Vedant Society and all those who asked the questions, it gave a lot of clarity.

[@aniruddhasamanta4859]

In transactional reality , Swamiji resembles The Bliss

[@rosappan]

Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏

[@michaeldillon3113]

An absolutely beautiful Q&A session🙏. I particularly liked the section when Swami was talking about Consciousness in the sense that if you are a materialist and don't bring consciousness into the explanation then you are only telling half the truth . So if you have a conference of Cosmologists talking about the universe they can talk in great depth about scientific explanations about the Cosmos but all that discussion , and all that scientific observation takes place within Consciousness which is conveniently forgotten , but something that very inconveniently science knows little about . They are in the cinema taking the movie to be real . At one time films in the cinema had a habit of breaking . You are absorbed in the movie and then the film breaks and the lights come on . You were never in the movie ( which in itself was a set of flickering images that you put together in your mind .))you were all along in the movie . For most people - certainly for me - when the film breaks and the light comes on

[@michaeldillon3113]

.......( continuation of comment above )...when the light comes on then that is when your vedantic journey starts are recommences . That certainly happened to me as a 6 year old boy . One minute the world was real , the next a realization that the world was an appearance in consciousness , but I had no idea what consciousness was . Hence my journey started or restarted , but really it was Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi calling me from Arunachala . Wake up wake up !!!! Or in those days when you could hire a boat on a lake near us , when your hour was doing me the Boatman would call from the shore " Come in no 1 , your time is up ". 🙏🕉️

[@purvasharma4983]

Many many thanks to swamiji and the entire team at vedanta ny

[@ampan75]

Thanks Swami ji for melting Vedas for us so that we could taste it.

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Wonderful. It is true. I have an intuition that this is the reality and feel very drawn to it, exactly as Swami says. These answers themselves are beautiful insights. 31.46 alone is worth imprinting in your memory.

[@KvaedTV]

Honesty is the Ultimate Truth.

[@theeternal6890]

But one need to be enough honest to accept the ignorance.

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

Integrity?

[@ashaghosh1933]

Knowledge full speech in a simplified form. My life has changed.

[@theeternal6890]

glad to hear that..waiting for my life to change now

[@niladridas3506]

that which can change is not you

[@VivekGoyalsoya]

Very Beautiful, no words I have to explain how I am feeling after hearing Swami ji. Request you Swami Sarvapriyananda to pls come to India, wish and desire and dream to meet you some day. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

I think there's a very long queue wanting to meet him in person.

[@niladridas3506]

talk of the century

[@ParagAmbardekar]

Thanks for posting this. Profound, informative, educational, and still entertaining.

[@mokshajetley9244]

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

[@vinodmohan123]

Great clarity in expression. Prnam Swamiji

[@sankararamaprasad9482]

Pranams Maharaj. Thanks a ton

[@pallaviachanta9645]

Every single session is very useful swami. Thanks a lot!! Please keep posting the videos.

[@sundersrinivasan1127]

Very good Swami ji. Now tell us Swami Vivekananda's famous quotes with their implied meaning

[@najeeves8171]

We experience everything through our consciousness because our bodies allow us to do so. I will believe in Vedanta when my consciousness travels to a far off place and gleans events without my body being present and I remember it all when I wake up. Until then, it is materialism FTW.

[@kunalkadam1052]

Thank you, sir

[@drdnukum001]

Thanks Swamiji

[@sushantchoudhary6393]

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” - Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four”. Very Advaita-vedantic.

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

Both Sherlock and AdvaitaVedanta are based in exacting logic.

[@manjugupta7752]

This is what I was waiting for ❤🙏

[@VkA2018]

This is a beautiful video

[@annuaravinda]

wonderfully explained with examples. Thank you!

[@iloverumi]

thanks for posting! really enjoying this.

[@praveenp8158]

There is no experience outside Consciousness. Nothing can exist apart from Consciousness. Consciousness reveals itself through all experiences and through the existence of all objects. We are already the One, whom we are searching for. This is a great illusion, yet no one is able to see it.

[@bradstephan7886]

Excellent, thank you!

[@theeternal6890]

nice

[@kaushik92-lj]

9:33 the funniest thing i ever heard two questions but the meaning of his name is " not two".

[@vinayakprabhu7935]

vashu kaushik Every human being is pure awareness in reality, not just Mr. Advait. But every one gets questions because of ignorance of being the Brahman.

[@apsingh420aps]

Totally enlightening

[@theeternal6890]

r u awaken

[@apsingh420aps]

@@theeternal6890 yes, culturally aware

[@rekhav4757]

🙏🙏🙏 guruji

[@durga.prasad]

Please upload the question and answers of "Do we have free will?" also...

[@annette4660]

Starting at 10:10, a wonderful meditation. I changed the tense to 1st person: I am the truth myself. I am satchitananda, the truth myself, Not this body and mind. But my problem is that under the influence of ignorance, I do not know the fact about myself that I am satchitananda, And in that satchitananda ALONE this body and mind are appearing. But I don’t know that it’s appearing in satchitananda. I just think, this is what is there, and so I am this. It’s an error that I am making. We are all making this error: That because the body and mind are experienced, Immediately I jump to the conclusion, “I AM this thing.” It’s based on ignorance of my real nature. Ignorance of my real nature as satchitananda leads to the error “I am body/mind.”

[@pravinakilpady1237]

If we practise this along with the practice of purifying our thoughts,words,n actions this knowledge becomes a living reality..its imp to be loving towards all as they're a reflection of Brahman.

[@kumaraswamy2164]

Thank u sir

[@josef2012]

🙏💗🌈

[@sharanbheemareddy9824]

True knowledge.

[@bhaktiyoga6451]

Thank you

[@briechilli4496]

🙏🏽

[@kanemclaren5991]

Great video. Thank you for your great work & insight. I have a genuine & passionate question that I’d love some help with please….how does one kill The Prime Consciousness/God/Brahma/The Dao? Happy to hear any & all suggestions please 🙏 Ps. Can the source God, if indeed all~powerful, destroy itself? If it can’t then I have to assume that it’s not all~powerful. Or am I missing something? I wonder if the Prime God ever asks itself….”To Be Or Not To Be?”

[@donaldstrubler3870]

Jai kapish

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

Blessings to you, swamiji.

[@hariharan4922]

🙏🙏🙏

[@sarathm7427]

Actualisation of an Objective Versus Realization of The Meaning Why one asks the Question :- Who Am I? When the apparent vagaries ,activities and reasons of Life fail to address the core issue and when they fail to fetch the desired degree of Peace /Bliss, this aspect clubbed with an experiential state of Futility and Im-permanency of such bouts of happiness in any act /thought, one is directed towards the Quest for the Meaning of The Life... Though the Quest is for finding the Meaning of Life, it mostly is redirected / reduced if I may so say, ( even without one's knowledge) towards finding a space wherein one gets Unalloyed Bliss that is to say The Objective of one's pursuits. Thereafter it is a Rooted State wherein one remains in that State.... The ESSENTIAL QUESTION :- WHO AM I is addressed in RELATIVE terms.. from a transient state to a Relatively Permanent state one advances in the quest. But where is the EXPERIENTIAL - CONSCIOUSNESS in the Absence of body-mind-intellect complex? When is one aware of the deep sleep and dream state? In wakefulness When is the question Who am I asked and further answered? In Wakefulness Can the aspect of Awareness examined in any other state other than wakefulness? NO Where/ when does the Experience of Awareness cease to exist? When one is either in Dream or in Deep sleep. Who is this EXPERIENCER? The I Can there be any I in Exclusivity... separate from the Gross? Isn't the I all INCLUSIVE??? Can the sense of I be there in a Rock? mostly cannot as the very Rock is again an inclusivity of The I.... without the I there cannot be anything.... Anything everything is an expansion or extension of the I ......If I is not there nothing remains and in I remains everything the sentient insentient everything.....

[@ajitkumardas7561]

Vedas r no vedas.wow very right. Be Brahma jnani all Vedas will sprout. U r that light.ur Brahman.

[@weebie2633]

In Vedanta it's Brahman. In Tibetan buddhism it's Self existing awareness..(Dharmakaya) Beyond our conception

[@EnglishTutorDip]

Stop counting God as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... millions..... and you be liberated immediately.

[@sumanjoshi7902]

If you don’t have memory of experience, then you won’t know the object.

[@noneall]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🕉️

[@ssk1117]

Very important 40:00

[@theeternal6890]

at point

[@vimalkumar-kk8rb]

What's the meaning to be enlightened?

[@PetroBlownapart]

Here's how I might have tried to answer the first question (00:17) : Big Bang Theory states that all the matter and energy of the universe was at one time concentrated in an infinitesimally small singularity, which then expanded. We can think of the singularity as sat-cit-ananda. From a vedantic point of view, we might say that the space that has appeared to separate the many particles of the universe can be thought of as illusory. From that standpoint, we never stopped being a singularity! The big bang is not an event that occurred in the past; it is continually occurring even at this moment. Brahman is both the infinitesimal singularity and the vast, unfathomable universe. It is not one thing or the other; it is both! But if we put these two manifestations of Brahman at opposite end of the spectrum of time, then to our eyes it appears to change from one form into the other, and therefore the universe appears to be expanding.

[@chotu986]

how could i relate myself with astabakra to a devote of thakur,ma swamiji (Chiranjit Banerjee kol-90)

[@vinayakprabhu7935]

chotu986 just as GOLD is related to bangle and chain. At the level of body mind, we are all definitely different and distinct. But in essence, we all are Brahman, Sage Ashtavakra being not different from you and me. Please take standpoint of witness and see if this question has validity.

[@hallgerdgarberg8955]

Jesus sey The heven is inn you ,,,!

[@sarathm7427]

Kindly Accept my Pranam Blessed One.. Can you kindly address this doubt , which I deem a barrier in my quest for the Truth. When it is said:- the CONSCIOUSNESS /AWARENESS is The ETERNAL, isn't it that we are claiming only a RELATIVE -PERPECTUALITY vis a vis the temporal elements like body, earth and the like? When we substantiate the argument on CONSCIOUSNESS as an ETERNITY, mostly the aspects of jagrat swapna and Sushupti are brought into the stage. And in their backdrop the All Pervasive Substratum of Consciousness is presented. And it is essentially convincing . But ,for the Realization of such a Substratum, and its all pervasiveness, the state of WAKEFULNESS ( at the physical plane) and a wakefulness /alertness ( at a psychological /mental plane) are very much a Necessity. Isn't it the memory / and the associated experiences of the swapna and Sushupti that act as a primary pointers to the question, What is that which had been a CONSTANT in all the realms of Jagrat Swapna and Sushupti. Question 1. Why the TRUTH, more Aptly ,THE NITHYA VASTHU needs an ANITHYA vasthu for its VALIDATION? Question 2. TILL WHEN DOES THIS SENSE OF AWARENESS /CONSCIOUSNESS PREVAIL IN A PERSON... WILL IT BE A MATTER OF CONTINUITY ( AT REALIZATIONAL LEVEL) EVEN AFTER THE BODY PERISHES? BUT THEN (AS IN THE FIRST QUESTION FOR THE REALIZATION DOESN'T IT REQUIRE A CONTEXT :- A BODY ( WAKEFUL/ALERT ) IN THIS CASE TO VALIDATE THE EXISTENCE / PREVALENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS? PRANAMS...

[@vinayakprabhu7935]

sarath m Q1: Ignorance is Anitya vastu. To remove it you need another Anitya vastu. Nitya vastu has no impurity in absolute sense.

[@debashishalder2027]

R/Mj It was agreed that Swami Brahmananda and others received something supernatural from Ramakrishna ji as His holiness considered to be 'Avatar' . Now it's radical Sir, What does reveal as Avatar from the Adwaita Non-dual from point of view? Don't bypass it as something focussed by absolute awareness. Please speak trouth.

[@SangeetNepal]

Dear Sarbapriyananda ji, after you approach to enlightenment you can read, vedanta, you can count beads, you can deliver speech to other interested people or Mumukchhyu, once you realise the self you are not in bondage for anything or against anything. Even Lord Krishna says in Geeta, He has nothing to do throughout the Universe yet he is driving the chariot of Arjun. Mukti means free of all bondages and from every action and inaction . When you are acting, really you are not acting, when you are not acting actually you are acting,, whatever you do the realisation never erases even for trillion of years, should we accept the time and space. Once we realise the Brahma one is beyond time and space. You can walk, you can eat, you can do charity work, you can read Vedanta as much you like, there is no bondage at all, there is no bondage at all after realisation of the ultimate truth or Mukti or Nirvana term really does not matter. Whatever the body does you are not doing it so where can be bondage or obstacle after realisation of the ultimate truth? Whatever is done that is done by our senses and our body not by us. we are absolute truth, the absolute truth does not do anything. We are existence, conciousness bliss so existence conciousness bliss does not do anything it is the light only.

[@chhotabheem9103]

Advait😂😂😂👍

[@ashiskarmakar7292]

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[@KanakkumarDas-b3x]

Matter is an illusion

[@richa4i01]

If all the confusion is created by ‘ignorance ‘ , why did the ignorance even come into picture ? Please reply does it mean even brahman is limited by time so that it was realised by yogis at the beginning of universe and not anymore?

[@sayankundu1492]

s J Swami Vivekananda says that Why we're ignorant of our true nature is not known... why does the Perfect think of itself in this human nature as imperfect is not known... But it is the Truth that is what the Hindu says... that we're That ... Sat Chit Ananda.. The answer to the second question is Big No... anyone can realise God or The Truth .. but it has its own consequences which most human beings are not able to sacrifice.... The Question is how Badly do you want Realisation.... if you want it like you need to breath.. you'll get it in that moment itself...

[@richa4i01]

Sayan Kundu 🙏thank you for replying. I have been ardent follower of swamiji’s talks. So this followup question to your answer. So if we do not know why ignore came into picture and we need to believe that we are ignorant. So is not like theist belief that we need to believe first in God first. Similarly in vedant we need to believe first that we are ignorant of our true nature. I mean is not the underlying belief of vedanta. With all due respect 🙏🙏someone pls reply

[@adityashukla2480]

As repeated why Swami Vivekananda and Paramhanash yoganannad...we can't know the answer of that question...If Maya acted upon Brahman ( Brahman limited by time and space), then the Brahman ceases to be Brahman...hence the question is self contradictory.

[@souvikdas1087]

Their is no beginning of ignorance. That is the most radical answer I can say. Actually Swamiji also answered the same question in other lectures. Now, tell me since when you don't know about KZbin? Let's assume you will have no satisfactory answer. Because ignorance has no starting point. But you can say I came to know about KZbin when I started to see KZbin. Last two questions, since when you don't know that sky is not blue? Since when you came to know about the fact that sky has no colour?

[@richa4i01]

Souvik Das thank you for the effort to answer this question. I will still try to manan(dwell) on the question. I think it some questions can not be explained in words. This is one of them. Thank you 🙏

[@robertjsmith]

consciousness is an illusion

[@sourcetext]

You are not the body and mind you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body, you have forgotten over many incarnations. The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps You in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world via the nervous system and the five senses. Meditation is putting the body and mind to sleep but staying Awake and Alert inside so you can re experience your Self as Eternal Spirit again. If you remain in this state after Meditation its called Nirvana, Samadhi, the Tao cosmic Consciousness, Born again Jesus, Self Realization Yogananda, Inner Witness Krishnamurti. Obtaining the golden fleece Greek mythology, Garden of Eden,etc etc etc all the same. THAT IS THE TRUTH

[@babukolappan4387]

👃

[@najeeves8171]

The ONLY thing that the Swami needed to demonstrate in order to debunk the materialistic standpoint is to show that he could experience that microphone without his body. Since he cannot do that, the materialistic viewpoint still holds good. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proofs. Has his consciousness experienced life through another body? Can the Swami swap bodies with one of his other Vedantic colleagues? Can he remotely view events on the other side of the globe as they are happening and provide a live commentary (since his consciousness is not limited by his body)? If he cannot demonstrate any of this, the materialistic viewpoint still stands and the Vedantic viewpoint is forever debunked.

[@colinmccowan9056]

Can you have an experience without consciousness? Without awareness?

[@najeeves8171]

@@colinmccowan9056 Experience, awareness, everything happens because we have a physical brain. Lose your brain/body, lose your experience - period. This is why our bodies need to be valued greatly as opposed to the unproven notions of soul/spirit. Spiritualists have it all in reverse. If you disrespect or lose your body, you lose it all.

[@najeeves8171]

@@pdigrazi If mere existence is all it is (that even a rock possesses), then why call it 'awareness' and make it seem like there's more to something than it is in reality? All these advance concepts, ruminations and speculations won't exist when our brain disintegrates, period. Again, extraordinary claims need even more detailed, well-laid-out proofs.

[@kantharajmv6616]

🙏🙏🙏🙏