|| Freedom || by Swami Sarvapriyananda

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

Jai Sri Advaita Vedanta, Jai Sri Swami Vivekananda, Jai Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Jai Sri Swami Sarvapriyanda.

[@damini_damini]

00:57 Swami Vivekananda on Freedom as per Vedanta 02:55 Swami Vivekananda on Western Monotheism 04:15 Upanishads on Human Being as God 05:47 Mahavakyas of Different Upanishads 06:48 Age of Philosophers/Sutras in India 07:32 How does one become many? Why is evil/suffering there if everything is Brahman? 09:00 Theistic religions on how one became many. 10:05 Advaita Vedanta on on how one became many. 10:49 If we are Brahman right now, where is freedom? 11:32 Theistic religions on Freedom 11:51 Advaita Vedanta on Freedom and Moksha 12:50 Advaita Vedanta on Suffering and Bondage 13:45 Dualistic religions on Evil 14:48 Advaita Vedanta on on Evil 16:15 Swami Vivekananda on Wordly Pleasure 16:38 Importance to Objections 17:57 What are the objections to Advaita? 18:05 How Swami Vivekananda presents Advaita 18:43 What are the objections to Advaita? 20:49 5 Arguments by Dharmakirti 22:02 David Hume (18th Century Scottish philosopher) doesn't know Atma. 27:49 Reality of Consciousness v. Matter - Statement of Problem 29:40 Swami Vivekananda's two reasons to say there is atma. 31:50 Defining Experience 32:39 Galen Strawson (British philosopher) on Hard Problem of Consciousness 35:04 Greg Goode's (American philosopher) step to prove consciousness 41:41 Ned Block (American philosopher) on Consciousness 42:27 Brain Mind and Consciousness being studied in Havard. 43:27 Various Philosophers and their works and takes.

[@brain-body-beyond]

Tears rolled by the sheer power of witnessing such thoughts, we are all blessed to have this learned swami living amongst us at this particular point in time.

[@leelakalyanaraman3504]

Truly blessed 🙏

[@widipermono854]

🙏❤

[@nirjhardas7333]

I am once again amidst the most positive comment section in youtube.

[@rayo.]

That's because you're amidst the most positive people on Earth.

[@agnivaray7476]

Swami Sarvapriyanandaji is easily one of the leading authorities when it comes to the human mind. His constant thirst for knowledge and humility is an inspiration to all of us. ❤️

[@patrickbinford590]

Agreed.

[@bajajones5093]

fully Agreed.

[@williambates3951]

Truly most excellent talks Swami-ji - some of the best I have heard in 56 years practicing Dharma !!!!

[@JorgeRodriguez-nx5eq]

The best explanation of Advaita Vedanta from a scientific and rational perspective!! Advaita Vedanta is not contradicted by any of science knowledge obtained through objective experimentation and yet it goes one step further from science studying consciousness by subjective direct knowledge.

[@achintyabiswas5388]

If we are free why we are confined in the body and leave the body at will.

[@achintyabiswas5388]

Why we can not leave the body at will.

[@pramilathanekar3917]

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[@Pqihtyieojn12]

​@@achintyabiswas5388 if you are free how do you expect to leave something you weren't inside in the first place? You are omnipresent. From where will you leave and to where will you go? The body is in you not you in the body.

[@Pqihtyieojn12]

​@@achintyabiswas5388 who will leave and what will leave? Isn't it the One Existence which appears as many? So whom will you leave and what will you leave when all is but you? Know your real nature and assert it whether at the bottom of the ocean or the top of the clouds or in outer space. What does it matter to you what happens to the body? You are Brahman.

[@samstour6262]

Swamiji today you said : “Consciousness experiences Consciousness.” This absolutely makes sense. I just love this expression. Amar antarer Pranam!

[@mtomat007]

love you Swamiji ❤ I find fascinating how Vedanta - which I finally found - describes into words what I have always believed to be true but could not express nor find a sense of belonging to before; and it is also so close to my main existential psychotherapeutic approach. So, again, thank you Swamiji. Your lectures make me very happy!

[@pushpakpattewar7098]

Watch this doc kzbin.info/www/bejne/noe8p2yhqc6fh9k

[@deedhesi8014]

Hi Matilde, I know EXACTLY what you mean. Having discovered Vedanta over a decade ago it has for me made so much sense in so many different ways. As if my entire sense of existence at its cores is perfectly in tune with the Vedanta concepts ( I could write a book on this point but sure you understand). Also crucial to add that though no Guru is in theory required , spiritual guides do help and from all the long list of people I have read it listened to this Swami is really something unique and special 🙏

[@Pqihtyieojn12]

Every form of development needs advaita. Civilisation cannot exist without advaita. Advaita alone explains all morality. Its good to know that it's becoming more and more approachable even in western psychology 🙂🙂

[@mdimran.hossen]

Pranam 🙏❤️Swamiji and everyone.Awesome , brilliant teaching as Swami ji does always. Swamiji is the greatest teacher in this 21st century. I have come to know as of now , if we regularly practice our mind to see any object or matter or event or any creation as it is without any past experience just as a new born baby sees everything then can one finds reflected consciousness more effective and one can use this experiment for realising pure consciousness also as Brahman or " I " . Just see everything from Childish brain not from an adult brain , trust me Life will be awesome , absolute freedom can be experienced then . Everytime hearing Swamiji is blissful. Like internet is medium between server and device same reflection consciousness is medium between pure consciousness and maya . So many things to learn from Swamiji in the coming days . A heartfelt gratitude to whole Vadanta NY team for arranging all these gems in the public. Blessings and Respect to all body mind individual who are reading my comment🙏❤️

[@adnanadill]

Since thousands of years Hinduism is fooling people, cheating people, killing them, starving them The Idol worship and Idol are since beginning and proof of evil forces AND FOOLING FORCES are with humans since beginning. The oldest Idols and the oldest temple are the proof of how long Humanity has been fooled by Idols. The oldest Idols oldest temples are proof of oldest enmity of human prosperity. WHY THE TRUE CREATOR OF UNIVERSE PROHIBITED HIS WORSHIP IN IDOL FORM ?? I WILL GIVE YOU LIVING PROOF OF THIS ENMITY IN THIS TIME Hindu Temples that Fooled People and Collected of Gold 1) Padmanabah temples Kerala 1300 Tons of Gold 2) Venketshwer temple Trimula 300 Tons of Gold 3) Vaishnu devi Temple 1.5 Tons 4) SiddiVinayak Temple Mumbai 160 Tops 5) Sai baba Temple 360 Tons 6) Krishna Temple Kerala 2 Tons THIS IS JUST 10% OF REAL FIGURES AND 2% OF TOTAL TEMPLES IN INDIA. Question Yourself? Do these stone idols needs this tons of Gold ? And my innocent Indians that gave their hard earned money to these temples are dying in Migration Corona Starvation Suicide because of burden of taxes and bank interest. But these bustard temple God with tons of Gold is not to help them not to save them. Will not give these poor and needy a single pai / Penny. Google, India is highest in Malnutrition, Starvation, Suicide, Illiteracy, Rape by Saints in temples. DO THESE STONE IDOLS NEED THESE TONS OF GOLD? IS NOT HINDUISM A TRICK TO FOOL, LOOT AND RULE ? See today's news of Kanpur, a girls hostel in temple, 7 underaged girls was found pregenent and infected with Aids run under Hindu saint chief minister Saint Yogi

[@taradrolma2774]

Yes, heartfelt gratitude to Vedanta NY for making these available. ✨

[@adnanadill]

@@taradrolma2774 *Aryans / Azaryans / R S S / B J P invaded In dia looking its resources and innocent and tolerant people.* They brought with them 1) Sanskrit Language and 2) Art of Marketing and selling Stones / Idols to make 1000s of Tons of Gold. 3) Organized Program of discri mination and control of its locals, which they named religion. Soon Aryans applied this religion to control resources and majority Mul Nivasi by dividing them, by creating Cast system through religion. *And with in no time, they became Owner of Temple and converted resources of India in 1000s of tons of Gold of Temples in their control.* And the Mul Nivasi or In dia automatically poor and extremely poor and cloth less, roof less, right less, and Slaves of invaders…. This is not religion Hin duism but hidden conspiracy “”Aryanism/Brah manism/Swarnism”” the planned and organized, Mul nivasi control and enslave system. *Demone tization and Priva tization and Discri mination policies are clear declaration of New Varna system, to Enslave In dia, once again.*

[@adnanadill]

@The Future A Hin du or Aryan or Bra hmin or a R S S man is loaded with talent of sale and marketing. He can even sale a stone from cross road and make billions and the stone is still with him. *What is that trick of Marketing the stones?* He just add it red color and names it Lingum or call it Venket or Vinayak or Ram or Krishna. And very soon men with wisdom and education, stands in long Queues to purchase that Stone…. And he makes 1000s of Tons of Gold, we all are seeing it with our eyes of education….. *Think! When Hindu can sales Stones/Idols to own people and make them fool?* Is it hard for them, to sale this country or their own mother?? *This is what R S S and B J P is doing …* You should not be surprised. Because it is you, who purchase stones and entertains their Business. Now they are on loose…….

[@adnanadill]

@The Future yes this happens in sea, shores may be not clean but water ahead is clean, but not in Hin duism.... A religion that is designed to control innocent people and their resources by some clever minds, will always be the same Before they did this Old Varna the discrimination system Now they do it by controlling the money / cash flow Demonetization Privatization money laundering...... You cannot clean the poop, how many you wash it with water..... But you have to come out of it. God did not descended man to forgot him or leave him on his own But When God descended humans with complete package of guidance... We announced!, "Now go down, all of you from here. Henceforth there shall come to you Guidance from Me now and again: whoever will follow it shall have neither fear nor sorrow (2:38)

[@barbucard]

We do not perceive the flower, we perceive our own perception of the flower. Beautiful knowledge.

[@paparingo5163]

Thank you master teacher, absolutely Brilliant teaching!

[@oscarmartinez3732]

Vedanta is the most logically coherent system to address an existential reality greater than the living reality than meets the eye. Swamiji is the most updated and honest acharya today who is able to address also western philosphical and scientific arguments in favor and against Vedanta and make them comprehensible within the advaita system.

[@mikeaaron2819]

What a great teacher. I love listening to him and I have a Vedanta teacher also and I just like the way he uses words to convey scripture to lead us from the appearance of parts to the “partless I” which is of course already the case.

[@pradeepsilwal3700]

I have been listening to Swami ji for last four years through his lectures posted in KZbin. I have a desire to meet revered Swami ji in person once in this life.

[@leonshirley9637]

Swami your talks bring peace to my heart... You are such a beautiful soul... I didn't know about Bengali culture before and because of your enlightened words I became aware of not just Freedom, meditation, but also Bengal culture :) Gracias!

[@shivkalyan3058]

प्रणाम स्वामीजी !

[@selmir369]

"Hear day and night that you are that Soul. Repeat it to yourselves day and night till it enters into your veins, till it tingles in every drop of blood, till it is in your flesh and bone. Let the whole body be full of that one ideal, “I am the birthless, the deathless, the blissful, the omniscient, the omnipotent, every-glorious Soul.” Think on it day and night; think on it till it becomes part and parcel of your life. Meditate upon it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, defied, by the very power of the thought. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty and your glory." -Swami Vivekananda

[@vashtieramnath2603]

Self Inquiry is one of the most adventurous and fulfilling path to the TRUTH. Thank you Swamiji for sharing your knowledge and Vedanta Society for making it available for the benefit of the world. Heartfelt gratitude 🙏❤️💕

[@chandrakantshanbhag3058]

'FREEDOM' What a wonderful , forceful lecture.What a command over the subject.Comparing VEDANT with MODERN SCIENCES simply superb. Raising doubts. on certain clarification by SWAMIJI himself and clearing the doubt in a scientific way by SWAMIJI no more questions! I have never found a SWAMIJI in my life who gives lectures on VEDANT in ENGLISH so simple and lucid , convincing way as SWAMI SERVAPRIYANANDAJI. SEEKING BLESSINGS FROM SWAMIJI.

[@leelakalyanaraman3504]

Swamiji, this particular talk raised a lot of questions in my mind, and luckily I have a Guru, who cleared my mind. My Guru told me that my real Guru is Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamasa. He directed me last year to listen to you🙏 Loved this particular talk! Love all your talks! Om Namoh Bhagavaté Sri Ramakrishnaye 🙏

[@debjanilahiri7100]

Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@arunkdas]

🌷🙏 Thakur Ma and Swamiji 🙏🌷Pranam to our loving Swami Sarvapriyandaji Maharaj🌷🙏

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

Just magnificent experiencial Talk. Jai Sri SatChitAnanda, Jai Jai Jai.

[@pushpabansal4270]

Koti koti Naman Vandan Swami ji💖🙏. Bless us 🙏💖

[@aksharma4304]

32:00 Experience= Consciousness+Object. Nobody has ever experienced matter outside ONESELF. ...34:40: We only feel ourselves; we only experience ourselves! What does it mean? All that we experience is CONSCIOUSNESS. Superb! Happy Thoughts....

[@taradrolma2774]

I am so grateful for these talks. 💖💐

[@jacekmicka5183]

Reduce objects to experiencing (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling), reduce experiencing to knowing and then reduce knowing to Consciousness= reduce matter to mind and then reduce mind to Consciousness.

[@varisthashaw9368]

category mistake

[@billyranger1236]

Like that. Good.

[@abhishekshah11]

Did that this morning.

[@onorg1]

everybody forgets about the speed of light, which makes the reducing possible.....

[@lakshmisharma991]

Cannot thank you enough Swamiji🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@carlosavila.291]

Holly cow always golden in this shared knowledge 🙏♾️

[@elderfitnatch]

ॐ Pranām Swami Sarvapriyananda

[@jaymajumder4889]

I love this man(swami).... So much..... Please accept my love and pranams..... Swamiji.

[@haradhandhak6145]

Hari 🕉 pronam sawmije

[@peterkuhn78]

Thank you for this wonderful lesson, swamiji! IT is completely corresponding to Rupert Spira's Essays on "The nature of Consciousness.

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

Extraordinary presentation. Jai Jai Jai.

[@robinanthu]

Pranaam Maharaj

[@subhabratadas8419]

This man has become devine himself. Pranam Maharaj.

[@vb2556]

Please go through this profound Vedanta, Vairagya Recording... Sure to make an impact.... In Hindi.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5u6YoavgK-chtU

[@sharanagato]

You are divine too. Tatt Twa Masi.

[@bijoudas5842]

Enlivening Message for the World. May God bless you for spiritual enlightenment. 👏💕🌹💕👏

[@meerabhide4888]

हरिःऊँ,प्रणाम, स्वामीजी।

[@praveenp8158]

All are manifestations of one fundamental being. One only exists, which appears as subject and object. Freedom is the very nature of soul, it is not something which was lost and need to be gained! Nobody has ever experienced matter outside himself. All experience is in consciousness. Experience = object + Consciousness. We only experience ourselves at all times, only consciousness. Even evidence of matter needs consciousness. Pranaams Swami!

[@debikachatterjee6748]

Apnar charan e pronaam moharaaj🙏....please keep blessing us with the light of knowledge and positivity🙏.....Joy Thakur Joy Maa Joy Swamiji🙏🙏🙏

[@artpoet9915]

"Sub ec, there is only one" - Maharaj-ji (Neem Karoli Baba)

[@dtorq]

What a beautiful blend of Love and Knowledge in Swamiji's presence.

[@seemabanerjee4466]

Pranam maharaj so beautiful lecture

[@gervmay8116]

Those uploading these gem for us ... thank you ... 🙏🏼

[@හරිමගඋදෙසා]

Truth is one. Sages called it in various names and languages. Wisdom goes with freedom all the way.

[@आध्यात्मएवंदर्शन]

I am very grateful to grace your very realistic speech on freedom of soul from bondage. Very nice lacture. Thanks a lot.

[@Beginnerarttutorials]

Very illuminating lecture Swamiji Maharaj! I am inspired to study Swami Vivekanand lecture also deeply. The Buddhist will say, gently, that Anatta (Anattma) is non--self - that is, self is not found in the body-mind complex, Aniccha (Anittya) - impermanence, to be nature of this body-mind complex and this universe. All Flux in the ocean of existence / reality - pretty much what Vedanta teaches. The Buddhist will also try and experience this through Dhyana, and techniques such as vipassana are used to illustrate what it and Vedanta both point as reality.

[@johnelbare8237]

Very clear, excellent talk. Thank you.

[@karunagourdeale5555]

As always excellent explanation,thank you Swami ji

[@ganeshkrishna6187]

Sri gurubhyo namaha..

[@sujatabhatt1254]

Thank you very much sir for such an excellent talk that is full of clarity.

[@billyoumans1784]

Thank you, Swami!

[@achintyabiswas5388]

Advaita Vedanta is the highest stage and not for all like us. Understand we are not body . But we are confined in the body and not free to leave the body at will.Many unanswered questions.

[@luzmartinez6889]

Glorious!

[@Music-eo6ts]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏

[@higherandhigher5848]

Thank you for this very interesting talk.

[@SatyaKDubay]

Gratitude, Swami 💕🙏🏼💕

[@mousumibanerjee59]

প্রণাম স্বামীজি।🙏🙏

[@tanukagupta8416]

Pronam Maharaj. Thank you, Maharaj.

[@caviper1]

Thank you Swami.

[@ankushmanhas3648]

Full of wisdom.

[@abpt7647]

excellent talk

[@dorothywarren1441]

Swami explains things so well. I am so glad to have discovered advaita Vedanta. If I could ask swami I would ask him to explain the relationship between the objective universe, by which I think he means material objects, and (as at 37) when he explains that the rose has no existence except in consciousness. I can see that consciousness is the reality ( to simplify it too much) But I still can't understand when swami says that the rose is an illusion. If we were not passively viewing a rose but instead viewing the bus coming toward us at speed - the consequence is real enough if we do not move! Any clarification welcome.

[@agnivaray7476]

The same question confused me during the talk. To my understanding, the fact that the bus may hit me and that through the "sensation of touch" I will experience pain (as you said with real consequence), is still totally dependent on my ability to be aware of my consciousness. If I wasn't aware, my body wouldn't experience the pain or "seeing the bus". Just because"matter is an illusion", doesn't mean it's not there, whether temporarily, for that is why it's being called an illusion. But what would matter be without consciousness? I can see and feel the body, hence matter is real and since the same can't be said for consciousness, it's an illusion. However, the question remains, that "I can see and feel" the gross and subtle only because my consciousness allows me to do so, otherwise, what would matter mean? If I were without consciousness, my blindness wouldn't allow me to see the bus, neither would my inability to touch bring me pain. There would be no life. (I used this answer to recollect few important points from the talk, and I definitely need more meditation into these ideas to truly assimilate their understanding. These are my two cents hahaha. Love.)

[@agnivaray7476]

Allow me to elaborate a little more on the second paragraph to put it into the right perspective, Swami Vivekananda said that there exists Maya (illusion) and Reality, but that Maya isn't actually an illusion until we have understood the nature of Maya; till then it is our reality (with a small r). Only after properly understanding Maya do we sieve it's nature from that which remains, which is Reality. Forgive me if I couldn't make the explanation lucid, for I'm yet to understand these higher concepts more clearly. 😅

[@dorothywarren1441]

@MG Stevens Thank you. This does require a lot of thought! So much to learn.

[@dorothywarren1441]

@@agnivaray7476 Thank you. Fascinating subject of which I have so much to learn. I must read Swami Vivekananda. Could you recommend a starting point?

[@chastetree]

I don't believe there is currently a satisfactory answer. Some scientists indeed say that matter is an illusion because in reality there is only energy or information in otherwise empty space. The apparent matter that is you can still be scrambled by the apparent matter that is the speeding bus. But in philosophies that see consciousness as the underlying reality, that scrambling of your information or energy field has no effect on the real, eternal you. Whether that gives the current you any solace depends on which 'you' you feel truly matters.

[@Kriti0627]

Pranam Swamiji, beautiful and powerful lecture. Thank you for uploading the video. 🙏

[@prabinbardoloi]

This is the best example of Maya! Getting lost in a maze....

[@madeyasa5379]

Thanks❤👃

[@radovanradovanovic2755]

40:44 the problem is also in quantum mechanics if you want to determine the nature of the light or matter. Depending on the presence or the apsence of the embodied consciousness who understands the results (aka the observer), the results will be diferent. So no objectivity in matter when you look closely.

[@RohanShirodkar29]

Powerful.

[@UM8831-u8m]

Swamiji🙏

[@celiamiranda485]

you teach.....and practise Education- you lead out/ pull out .. "educe"- uwhat is already there. as a school teacher we always began the school year with zEDUCATION meaning. Repeated every year in August. today I say,"by George I've got it!". I ama witness to you. You are actually doing it.

[@billyranger1236]

Celia Miranda . ???

[@purvasharma4983]

Thank you

[@sonalidave8067]

Hari Om Swamiji, many Pranams🙏🙏 would have loved to hear counter arguments from Advaitic perspective to the 5 Buddhist objections. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Truth-is-the-Ultimate-Truth]

Freedom is not nothing doing It's seeing all doing.

[@sanvas5619]

Feel enlightened when listening to swami My pranam

[@CACHIRAGDHANANI]

Pranam swamiji

[@parvathimeppad8217]

pranams gurudev

[@tzadik36]

Pronaams!🙏

[@roopampai8061]

Thank you very much for finding myself in I am brahaman. Om Shanthi, shanthi shanthi.

[@MinecraftGamerful]

Enlightening❤️

[@Leela_ya_Maaya]

🙏 bless us !

[@lakshmisharma991]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@a-worldexplorer7469]

Excellent

[@sumatin8056]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Charan Sparsh Swami ji

[@abhishekchattopadhyay2312]

Beautiful!

[@bradstephan7886]

Excellent, thank you!

[@sourabh369]

Save us, Swamiji! 🙏🙏🙏... Indeed, we are drowning.

[@Saibabalight]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@mso2802]

Swami Sarvapriyanandaji, you are the only contemporary RK Mission Swami I admire. Pls prevent RK Mission "career Swamis" from turning RKM to a hotchpotch of liberal (which become partly anti-hindu) stance (I'm sure you would understand what I mean). Extremely sad! The career-Swamis are far removed from the ideals of Thakur Sri Ramakrishna and the great Swamis of yester-years! Humble request.

[@vishwa1767]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by career swamis, liberal stance and how they strayed away from the ideal?

[@selmir369]

GOD IS THE LETTER A. we are all that

[@erickbedoya435]

❤

[@salilg56]

amazing insight!

[@raghupathykrishnamurthy7575]

I agree that with out consciousness you can't experience an object.We need both, consciousness and objects for an experience. How do you say that there is only consciousness not an object?

[@Pqihtyieojn12]

Objects don't have any reality, because if they did then it would be impossible for anyone to go beyond them. Same for virtue and sin. Objects are maya borrowing the light from the Self and appearing to be many and real while it's just one and the object has no absolute existence. Anything which has no absolute existence can't be said to exist. Its a mixture of non existence and Light of existence

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

See the Impersonal in the Personal- Swami Vivekananda.

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

Greg Goode who wrote Standing As Awareness? One of the best.

[@LifestyleUnlimitedUSA]

Can you do a talk on current social issues ?

[@keithtrickey3482]

@MG Stevens you hit the nail on the head.well explained.🕉

[@hambaexploringownnatureand6571]

It is the ignorance that give us pain.

[@pradnyabhutada8534]

🙏🙏

[@alecmisra4964]

You can do as you please but only a subset of behaviours favours nirvana and thus enlightenment. Therefore over time behaviour tends to lean towards the subset of behaviours, just as the second bird leans more and more towards the paramatman over time.

[@bkgupta6356]

It is said if someone's prana life force goes from bhram randhra at the time of death,that person sets free attains moksha.

[@KriB510]

Thank you so much for your very informed talks Swamiji. Pranams. I do have a question for any listeners and/or practitioners here on these message boards. My question will be long-winded and not too abstract, but rather pertaining to experiences in life. For example, several months ago I had good fortune to visit India for first time and made special contact with a family there. After returning to USA, I would communicate every day with one family member, but one day I went to sleep without sending usual pre-sleep message. Then I woke up with a start in middle of night sitting straight up and grabbing my heart. I felt something wasn’t right, and to try to make things better, I sent the reply that I had forgotten to send the evening earlier. I apologized for sending message in middle of my night (being on formal basis), but stated I didn’t feel right for not communicating per usual. What I didn’t know until later was that after I sent message, the recipient had to bend down so that he could see the message from the glare of the light, and he said later that the act of him bending down to read message saved his life because simultaneous to that, a deliberate act of violence was already in motion being perpetrated towards him and the vehicle he was in, but he was spared because he had bent down the split second prior in order to retrieve the message - not consciously (or should I say intellectually) knowing that this act of violence was in process already. Not to make this too long-winded, but usually I would just thank God and remove all actors from the equation and not try to make too much sense out of it, and again just thank God and continue to try to keep my heart in the right place and tread forward lightly and humbly. But from a Vedantic point of view (and I am so new to Vedanta that I will probably say something incorrectly), I am curious on what level is an explanation for this? From my perspective as the experiencer of feeling that something was not right (and I am a mother three times over of adult children and I’ve had more than enough sleepless nights of feeling that something is not quite right smh), is this the consciousness experiencing itself halfway around the world at another point in space, inside another body-mind complex within infinite consciousness? Or does consciousness permeate all, and the separate body-mind complex is the illusion? Or does consciousness illumine this body-mind complex to act in order to prolong another physical form halfway around the earth? Or, from the standpoint of the other experiencer (though I guess there is really no other?), did he already know without intellectually knowing that this act of violence was happening and we were all just actors in this karmic field of Maya acting without premeditated awareness of our actions or the outcomes of our actions, but that the results were the result of karma itself? Or what? I don’t consider that the events are unrelated because, well, I just cannot believe that. I am ok to not understand intellectually, but life seems rife these types of events (or should I say that life seems like it is nothing but these events), that sometimes I become curious as to how to think about it. I mean, I find beauty enough in the unknown and in the mystery, and fill in the blanks with my imagination when I want to lol, but I have also been a science teacher, so a part of me also would like to break it down into component parts. Hopefully, this made sense, and I am curious to any input from other listeners, and thank you if anyone still reading this far lol.

[@KriB510]

Update: I know nobody answered this, and no need to lol. All that was needed was for me to continue pushing the play button on Swamiji’s Gita talks that are in the archives. Not even a third of the way through chapter 2 yet, and I think all my questions have been very explicitly answered within just a few sessions haha ….. the questions that have not been answered yet I am sure will be answered within the talks I have yet to listen to. He even stated something about people asking questions that have already been answered in almost every talk, but that we are not ready to hear them as answers until we have formulated the question for ourselves - or something like that. So, yeah….. there it is.