Meditate Better | Swami Sarvapriyananda

"The mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna. It appears to me that it is more difficult to control than the wind" - Bhagavad Gita (6.34)
"Lord Krishna said: O mighty-armed son of Kunti, what you say is correct; the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But by practice and detachment, it can be controlled" - Bhagavad Gita (6.35)
Inspired by these verses, Swami Sarvapriyananda provides invaluable guidance on improving our meditation.
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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.

[@abhilekhhhh]

What an organisation!!! Not interested in conversion, not interested in proving that hindusim is the best. Simply delivering knowledge and love to transform people's lives.

[@vinoddixit8077]

A very lucid discourse

[@anitaroy6342]

That is what Sanatan Dharma is. 🙏

[@sunandaroy5902]

Very well said to understand yet it is needed to hear many times .thanks to Moharaj.

[@MrAkashrintu]

Yes ,it's the Advait Vedanta Philosophy.

[@shobaneshwari]

Very true!

[@dhananjaypawar8140]

The world will be forever indebted to SWAMI SARVAPRIYANANDAJI for his immense contribution in transformation of multitude of people by spreading the knowledge of VEDAs.His way of explanation is so fluent, captivating, lucid and effortless that most of the people can understand this VEDIC KNOWLEDGE . This will help people in all walks of life especially during this Pandemic. 🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐

[@saraswati1386]

Amen.

[@seetharamanat7241]

Thankyu NamaskarMrs Seetharaman

[@qdcshiva]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@sladewillson8461]

That’s true.

[@garycox3841]

Agreed 🙏❤️

[@janetownley]

This is so good! Every talk by Swamiji is so valuable. He has such grace and brilliance. 🙏🏻

[@cricket5179]

Summary of 10 points for better meditations that Swami mentioned for quick reference 1. Meditate Regularly 2. Have a fixed time 3. Fixed place 4. Avoid Bad Thoughts 5. Avoid Bad Company 6. Practice little bit of asceticism 7. Cultivate Vastness, Infinity, Eternity 8. Yearning for God 9. Spiritualize daily activities( rituals ) 10. Seek Holy Company Practice Vairagya -- to tune and control mind

[@anupriyawijayaweera7038]

Thank you for summarising

[@karthi1834]

Thank you so much

[@infiniteblissshriarihantsi6041]

plus Abhyas - Repetition

[@Sabyasachi_De]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a gift.. Forever indebted and grateful 🙏🏻. His lectures of Mandukya Karika.. Astavakra Samhita.. Vedantasara.. Bhagavad gita.. Vedantic mediation.. Manisha Panchakam.. are enough to create the vibration of knowledge.. He is a genius teacher.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ganeshshukla1284]

Yes 🥰🙏😊

[@cosmocookiemonster]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is one of favorites to watch for his lectures and for sharing all his knowledge with us. ❤️

[@harrshasuri1035]

So true... Those are a treasure!!

[@kulangaraimuralidharan5158]

Really beneficial , thanx for the simple and practical tips to us whose mind always run here and there ! Humble Pranaam Swamiji !!!

[@satarupasengupta1259]

If I have questions to ask how can I do it ? Excellent points given by swamiji about how to prepare our mind for meditation fixed time is possible but fixed place is not because if I stay out of my house some relative's or friend's house place is changed .Other points are alright Satarupa Sengupta

[@satyajitghosh6384]

Essential timelines - (1) Arjun's enquiry -> 01:33 - 02:50 (2) Arjun's elaboration -> 14:42 - 19:05 (3) Krishna's answer -> 25:31 - 30:30 (4) Krishna's elaboration -> 32:14 - 34:06 (5) Essance of Yoga -> 35:40 - 36:20 (6) Difference between intellect and mind -> 41:38 - 47:40 (7) Need for cultivation of dispassion -> 48:57 - 01:00:23 (8) Avoid repression and importance of Karma Yoga -> 01:01:04 - 01:02:34 (9) Practical tips -> 01:03:25 - 01:11:12 .

[@adarshsatam4462]

Thanks 😊 🫂 🙏 Much needed

[@RameshSangamnerkar]

Thank you so much..

[@seane.9937]

Thank you brother. God's love always

[@vasukinagabhushan]

The brilliant Swami Sarva Priyananda should quit the unnatural and anti Vedic monasteries, get married and start a Gurukul Ashram like in Vedic times. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@seane.9937]

Wow, thank you so much. God's love and blessings always

[@eclecticapoetica]

I have been following Swami Sarvapriyananda for years starting with his first lectures at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, and his expositions just keep getting better and better. - and he started from a very high benchmark! In this talk he cuts through so much, with such incisive, insightful analysis, bringing it together with such focus, clarity and lucidity. And so simply. 🙏🏼✨🙏🏼 What a blessing our SwamiJi is. I feel privileged to just hear him. His teaching is illuminated.

[@sanatbakshi3542]

Agree with what all that you say. I am a new follower just starting out to listen to him. What a wonderful experience it is to listen to his wisdom, incisive logic, practical examples and metaphors, references to classic Vedic sources, great scholarship, a ceaseless flow of words from within, such unassuming and humble personality, nicely interspersed humorous comments, ease of references to everyday examples from daily life that we can all relate to, respect for the intelligence of his audience...I could go on, but no words can really do justice to his sharp mind and pure brilliance. He is a blessing to all humanity, and we should consider ourselves so fortunate to have him accessible to us all remotely via KZbin. God bless him with the best of health so he can continue to teach us, show us a path to follow and share his wisdom with all for decades to come...Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti...

[@luism.rodriguez3263]

What a brilliant mind and beautiful soul. Swamiji is a natural teacher and communicator. I love the way he simplifies the subjects with everyday examples and anecdotes. Swamiji then is considerate enough to summarize for us what he has spoken so that we can better remember what we need to do. May God continue to bless him. Om Tat Sat!

[@govindbisen388]

Please save our hinduism

[@kanhaibudhu8601]

Excellent discourse.

[@divyanshuyadav4148]

@@govindbisen388 islam and caste discrimination is killing it

[@user-yi4cn9xp1m]

Very true he has great intelligence and clarity

[@alexikrystal9451]

Beloved Swami, I recall a mention by you of an initiate lamenting that there are no great figures these days, like Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. Anyone in doubt need only find your KZbin videos. "Great figure" -- you are that! Thank you so very, very much.

[@prashant-ul2sn]

Swamiji is in ignorance,

[@gitanjaliraghav]

Blessed to have attended this talk at NY Vedanta Society. Swamiji’s aura and grace filled the entire hall. He is truly a remarkable speaker 🙏

[@sumanaghosal5072]

Yes ,so lucky you are 👍

[@kanchankini1064]

So lucky u r?

[@zoneofsilence]

WoW!

[@deviprasadreddy1433]

🙏

[@samarpitadattagupta8193]

"Neither SEEK nor AVOID as far as the world is concerned. Untie the boat." my take away from this enlightening talk. Pranaam Swamiji. 🙏🙏

[@sudarshanborpatragohain2467]

I cannot imagjne where I would have been without listening to the discourses of Swami Sarvapriyanda. He fills me with so much hope everytime I seem to lose the thread of life. Swamiji-I am so, so indebted to you. Thank you.

[@sankaranp2803]

Excellent for spiritual

[@vkurapati]

I feel exactly the same 👍

[@dheerajmahajan7623]

Soamiji is like a great piece of poetry, which beautifully flows in a natural flow.. It's a privilege to listen to him. So lovable, so suave, so wise and so humble. Every word is worth listening thousands of times

[@shashikantkulkarni4307]

Very True Indeed!.Om Shanti, I.

[@haradhandhak6145]

So beautiful programs pronam sawmije

[@servetohumanworkforlife.9353]

tremendous person ....you are my very much lovable person ... moharaj... ❤️

[@bhuvana-skandarossi8511]

Thank you Swami ji wonderful Sat-Sangam...Pranams ^_^......

[@omtatsat1846]

He is a true blessing of this generation, he is such an amazing guru, I wish I could have had him as my guru 💔

[@thebelligerentbostonian7524]

You still can you know. Just keep watching his videos and then ruminate about what you heard.

[@omtatsat1846]

@@thebelligerentbostonian7524 yeah I know, the real guru, the sadguru is inside us all but he is just an ideal guru that can give some real experience! well i wish to meet him one day 💙💙💙

[@bandanasengupta7636]

@@omtatsat1846 me too

[@Swarnendu_Kundu]

@@omtatsat1846 I also

[@discoverparbat9765]

okay, i see you quite often in Adhyatmik Memeposting

[@swamivedantanandapuri1322]

🙏🙏🙏 Most wonderful. Pranaam maharaj. Swami Vedantananda Puri

[@jyothikumari3248]

Pranaam on the divine feet of Swami Sarvaprayananda

[@isisosiris5498]

Thank you so much Swami Ji 🙂🕉🙏

[@blueray1957]

Imo, this is his best satsang, he brings all the vrittis and gunas together to clarify how to subdue the mind, everything exists in Brahman yet the realization requires repetition , devotion and especially Insight

[@Endeavor1853]

Jai Thakur ji zkai Maa Kai Swamiji. Pranams to Maharaj..... Wonderfully explained.

[@sheikmunjah2241]

This learning is like being a firewood in the fire of enlightenment. It takes time to burn until nothing remains - neither the fire nor the wood.

[@malliksripathi9186]

Thank you Swamiji. PRANAAM

[@aratilatadas8598]

Hari Om Swamiji Pranam

[@sivacharankumardoodi3095]

Thanks again guru ji

[@madhujain2452]

Pranams Guruji 🙏🙏🙏

[@umaramakrishnan5676]

दण्डवत्-प्रणाम स्वामिजी ।

[@allrone792]

Thankyou with thousands of pranams swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@bensmithy4279]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a blessing to man kind. He makes spiritual teachings so fun and interesting. I sincerely hope if one day I become a monk I will be like him..

[@anupshaw6835]

Seen seen seen e 5ed

[@anupshaw6835]

D seema

[@dhanrajmohan701]

Public comments. Swami gee thanks you so much for sharing your knowledge and inspiration factor of elusion of the mind and how to control your taught and action base on how you preceive life journey begins with you. Amazing and pure knowledge very simple explanation. This is beon body mind.reflect back to the source. I am not the physical body but the eternal soul. The power of the mind and master it in words taught or deeds weather physical mental or emotional self realisation is the key to success. Mata swasartie bless you swami gee. It is a blessing to humanity enjoying your powerful message .

[@shivamumbai1]

Pranam Maharaj ji.With the taste of gold and diamonds mine,one loses interest in other cheap ore mines.Sat sang is the Gate way of noble values mine.A practical direct feeding to inner system.Jai Shri Ramakrishna.

[@AmazedNik]

🙏 Dhanyavad Swamiji

[@ammastom8182]

I agree whole heartedly. I hang on his every word.

[@elizabethdanielsson8613]

Thank you for your compationate and Beautiful teachings

[@nithinjoshi]

Jai ho Swamiji🙏 Mind needs controlled - Vairagya is necessary

[@omprakash7246]

He is enlighten sole. Helping others to uplift their sole. His language is lucid and tool to understand easily clist scriptures.

[@RDGGR1]

Highly enriching SwamiJi....Pronam 🌺🙏🏻🌺

[@siegeperilous9371]

Thank you for your holy company, Swami. 🙏🏻

[@anagha.aniruddha16]

Jai ShriRamkrishna dev ki Jai🙏🏻 Jai ShriMahamai ki Jai🙏🏻 Jai Swamiji Maharajji ki Jai🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this 🙏🏻

[@rajpokhun2727]

Jai Thakur Jai MAA Jai Swamiji

[@revatisuresh9434]

Thank you Swamiji🙏

[@tanukagupta8416]

PRONAM neben Maharaj 🙏🌹🙏

[@madrasapattinam]

Thanks For your guidance Swamy ji 🙏

[@ravishekharsharma2196]

It's almost become a ritual for me to listen to Swamiji's talks during long drives to office and back. Simply love them. Insightful and touching. Immense thanks for these super valuable talks and leasons

[@vkurapati]

Me too 👍

[@ganesanpillai4264]

Me too

[@caviper1]

Thank you Swami.

[@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583]

Pranams Swamiji 🙏🏽🙏🏽. Thank you very much for your teachings. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@nirmalasabajkar6353]

Pranam Maharaj 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@julietarojas7637]

And because and I love you so much to God In heavenly father Amem

[@KathaPravah]

Who are the lucky ones who attended this discourse.? We are indebted to you Swami ji.

[@ThePilarperez]

Thank you swamiji, you are my daily inspiration. I hope with your instruction and my perseverance, I can become firmly established in meditation. 🙏

[@dr.niveditabanerjee2667]

Pronam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Much gratitude

[@sankarprasadmajumdar4243]

pranam moharaj ji.

[@meerakulkarni5826]

And I always wondered why Lord Krishna fondly calls Arjuna महाबाहो and ponders on the physical attributes of Arjuna while guiding him on mental aspects... Swamiji answers my doubts in a very lucid manner!

[@bradbryant3810]

I am a student of Tibetan Buddhism and other related practices. I believe the "Gods" of Bhagavad Gita and Puranas (including Krishna) may have been,, in actuality, intelligent ETs. I believe the same of the visionary beings in Islam, Hebraic History, and Christianity. This was to keep beings believing that they needed an intermediary. Buddhist and Non-Dual Yogis know better than that. We don't need an intermediary - except, possibly, to study the teaching and techniques of practice. Ultimately, we are all responsible for our own Awakening. We are the watcher...witnessing all...silently. The talk you gave about Nagarjuna and then your example of the Golen necklace was wonderful. You seem to know your Buddhism very well. I appreciate your objectivity. Among In Indian Yogis I am aware of, I read Meher Baba and Paramahansa Yogananda,,,and I am a huge "fan" of Ramana Maharshi". and Nisargadatta Maharaj...At that level, whether you're given the label of Guru-ji or a Tibetan cave Yogi, it's all the same. They have transcended this mundane world. You have a wonderful, humble approach, and are needed at this transitional time. Thank God for Mother India! Very nice teaching Swamiji

[@AliciaMarkoe]

Thank you so much 🦋

[@shaktibhushanmaity]

pranam maharaj🙏

[@richardbelisle7626]

Well as he goes on...nice🕉☯️❤️🙏🏼

[@chanderkanta5715]

Swamiji 🙏🙏

[@subhashzadoo]

ॐ!Mahadev has blessed Sanatana Sanskriti a Yug Purusha- like you. Thank you for walking with us in Amrit Kal of Bharatvarsh. You are a Yugpurush for Sanatana Sanskriti.I am sure your parents& you yourself have not bothered about“what I will get?” Mahadev Bless Us All! JAI VAASUDEV KUTAMBUKAM!

[@YVDurga]

Humble Pranams Swamiji Maharaj🙇 🙏 💐 Superb 👌 Swamiji Thank you so much for pouring wonderful insights 🙏🙏Maharaj Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏 💐 Jai Swamiji 🙏 💐

[@johnbanach3875]

Very thorough exposition on meditation. I'm very impressed with the depth of wisdom and spirituality of the Ramakrishna Order, Swami S in particular. I like the emphasis on the timeless, ancient teachings, without being merely a cult of the sacred personalities--Ramakrishan/Holy Mother/Vivekananda.

[@simplefinance5165]

The smile on Swamiji face when he says good morning after mantra is amazing it brings smile and happiness.

[@aritrasamanta2060]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a true blessing of this and future generations to come. He is an enlightened soul 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Jai Sri Ramakrishna🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@akvenugopalan9773]

Excellent speech by a Great Monk. Very informative and very entertaining.

[@Vision_Of_Realities]

Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏🌺

[@hanifamenen1082]

Fantastic lecture - thank-you so much! Hari Om Swamiji!

[@lakshmikeshavan9343]

Swamiji's life is service to humanity. And that service is about teaching to the world what is truly real and all the the rest of what you perceive and experience in this universe is just Maya. I would like to think this sort of dedication to do good to the world will lead him to the realisation of the Brahman in the not too distant future. Pranam Swamiji.

[@rajasekharck6358]

Thank you so much swamiji ❤

[@BcClarity]

Swami I am so blessed to get in your way. I hope to bump into you all places Her Now and Always One. Thank You. My Dogs have made me their Guru. "Get used to it," they say. Just another in a series of Blissful Vedanta Days 2022

[@jeyaprakashrajaram]

Swamiji is a great asset to this world . Here is the summary 1. Meditate regularly 2. Have Fixed time 3. Have a Fixed Place 4. Avoid bad thoughts 5. Avoid bad company 6. Practice little bit of asceticism 7. Cultivate Vastness (infinity eternity) 8. Earning for the God 9. spiritualize daily activity 10. Seek holy company.

[@ArjunKumar-fk1kx]

One the best lecture by swami.. so enriching

[@aninda2457]

Maharaj Pranam , apnake joto shuni toto bhalo lage , mon chai Aar o shuni onek kichu apnar theke. Oshadharon lage apnar kotha shunte :)

[@fabiennebarbaut4606]

Thank you so much Sarvapriyanandaji for your wise , simple and kind way to teach us these beautiful Vedas ...Its a pleasure to listen to you... its so easy to focus with yours way of speaking...Fabienne from France 🌻🙏🌻

[@visionindus7231]

you are really sarvapriya....and i get ananda from you👍⚘🌷🥀🌹🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌💗💗💗

[@durgeshpandey3245]

Swami ji is turning point in my life

[@pritiparikh3169]

So indebted to Pujya Swamiji for the most valuable teachings 🙏🙏🙏

[@StarGazer10189]

This was one of the best talks on meditation I've listened to. So simple to understand! This was my first time listening to Swami.. He has my attention! Thank you for your teachings

[@rajeevanc3692]

Pranam

[@urmimaladutt2685]

I am ever grateful to you Swamiji for the lucid and effective way you explain🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@priyancka6]

Thank you Swami ji 🙏🏼

[@gunasekarans1]

Pranams Swamiji ...only blessed ones will have this opportunity of listening to you. Guru Maharaj blesses you all the time for sure..

[@DonkeyLips-gj9uq]

Such an insightful speaker. Met Swami 20 years ago briefly. Great to see him again and hear him speak.

[@TG-wo5fk]

One of the authentic teacher.. Blessed to have such teacher who is unbiased and fully focus on truth.

[@tomcruze0071]

🙏🏽💐🙏🏽Thanks for sharing such a wonderful practical wisdom 🙏🏽💐🙏🏽

[@justinpanakkal327]

Thank you very much for your inspiring,amazing&excellent lecture.GOD bless you.

[@omkarswaranjali826]

प्रणाम स्वामीजी!

[@higherandhigher5848]

Thank you for this inspiring talk.

[@jayapal4572]

Pranam Swami ji 🙏🙏🙏

[@bapparoy7502]

Pronam swamiji

[@Ashokkumar-kq8ps]

Hari 🕉 swamiji

[@dr.sivakamisundarip1724]

Truly awesome Swamaji Thank you so much.....

[@user-bf7kv5em8l]

Brilliant discourse🙏.I don't think one needs to let go of materialism to be spirtual but one needs to be mentally detached. Keeping a balance of the material and spiritual world combined.

[@bullsdeepdish6982]

Easier said brother lol. But agreed

[@rajukunjukrishnan472]

Pranam Guruji 🙏. Abhyasa still useful

[@lakshmirao7375]

Listening swamis lectures are also good meditation, if we listen with concentration.

[@saraswathynarayanasamy2568]

Swamy AUM AUM THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@shrawansahu9500]

I watched DKD Mahadev, where he Tell Mai to Vairagi hun, Na samman ka Moh Na apman ka Bhay, Na Koi Mitra aur Na Koi Satru, Na iss sansar se kuch lena aur na kuch dena. After Hearning your lecture now I can correlate his statement. People having Property like Lord Shiva can sit in Meditation till the end of World.

[@bhaghiappaiya9822]

Thank you swamiji

[@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259]

Very enlightening videol Namaste pranam Swamiji l Om tatsat

[@laxmigani]

Namaste Guruji...Feel blessed to listen the right way to approach life after the demise of my father(my guru) long back. I beleive that Supreme power pull me towards this video for the betterment towards Realisation. May god bless u Guruji with good health and happiness. I bowed down with tears in my eyes and unable to express the feeling. With ur blessings and Permission I want to add ur name in Guru puja before practicing my rituals and meditation. Shastanga Pranam Guruji.