Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Jan 23rd, 2022

[@VedantaNY]

List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - Is it possible to experience Turiya temporarily? 11:28 - Why does Drg-Drsya-Viveka indicate that only the avaccheda (limitation) theory explains the appearance of one consciousness as many consciousnesses? 28:28 - If there is ultimately no free will, how is Karma applicable? 40:14 - Who created the universe, Iswara or Hiranyagarba? Why is it said that Hiranyagarba has maximum bliss? 53:05 - How is the witness consciousness really free, if it cannot choose what it wants to witness? 56:09 - If both bliss and pain are in the mind, why is Atman described as pure bliss, and not also pure pain?

[@tarit.goswami]

How I can ask question?

[@jay_chavan]

where to ask question? plz share some info or link in description.

[@unchangingawareness535]

Thanks a lot Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏 Any of these questions could open the doorway to enlightenment if only we bother to pay complete attention and reflect deeply on Swamiji’s well constructed responses. Each and every answer takes us back to the subject and away from the world of objects 🙏🙏🙏

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

@@unchangingawareness535 But think of the Divine Mother who has sent our swamijito enlighten usPl feel grateful to her infinite mercy on us!!!

[@tarit.goswami]

@@thyagarajant.r.3256 She is the real mother, if she does not think who else will think?

[@kevalsourav]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is perhaps the best Speaker of Non-Duality right now in the world. I enjoy every single of his Ask Swami sessions. These videos are very enlightening.

[@Sabyasachi_De]

Never seen a Nondual Vedanta Teacher with such clarity.. Forever indebted and grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@divyadeepwadhwa6175]

Look up Swami Yugpurush Paramanandji

[@tzadik36]

@@divyadeepwadhwa6175 لیکن اُن کی زبان سمجنا مشکل ہئڻں

[@aksharma4304]

@@tzadik36 Simple is always difficult because Common sense is rarely Common.

[@tzadik36]

@@aksharma4304 An alien language is not helpful. I was raised in the Islamic Republic. Kawwey ke saath reh kar kawwey ki daak seek giya. However English is OK.

[@mokshajetley9244]

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

[@rebeckajain2316]

Dear Swamiji, You are the person standing in front of the mirror. You are the Consciousness who perceives the reflection. You are the reflection. And You are the mirror itself. You are the pot. You are the water in the pot. You are the reflection of the sun which sparkles on the water. You are the light from the Sun. And You are Sun itself. You are All That.

[@madhuchhandasarkar2792]

Epitome of knowledge ! I bow to the mother who bore this God in her womb and gave this gift to those thirsty earthlings ! How wonderfully He speaks with His divine smile !!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@tanukagupta8416]

🌹🙏প্রণাম নেবেন, মহারাজ 🙏🌹

[@amiraarora3363]

You have so much unconditional love for us...thank you so much Swami Ji...Om Shanti😊🙏🏼

[@pramilasrinivasansrinivasa3557]

Namaskarams🙏🙏🙏 Swami ji So happy to watch, listen to Swami Sarvapriyananda ji Love and Respect from Helsinki Finland🙏 💕

[@chirasride8706]

This is my humble request to the Vedanta Society for a lecture on Saguna and Nirguna Brahma by Swami Sarvapriya Nanda ji

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji

[@omkarswaranjali826]

प्रणाम स्वामीजी !

[@nachoswachos2201]

Woah, the question of Hiranyagarbha blew my mind. How does Swamiji explain such a complex topic so very simply?

[@rockingrishi1407]

The clarity and passion he has will transform many people. I don't want to flatter him but I must say he is closest to Vivekananda in present time.

[@rdc515]

@@rockingrishi1407 absolutely. i have thought this many times. he will be remembered for long after he has passed.

[@mamathac6140]

@@rockingrishi1407 feeling same here. guruji is modern Swami Vivekananda 👏

[@marymolloy562]

Because he's a genius!

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

@@rockingrishi1407 yes,it is a pity that swami Ranganathanandais not alive todayto see his gloryachieved

[@rockingrishi1407]

I don't know why I am so attracted to this swami.

[@amiraarora3363]

Koti Koti Pranam Swami Ji🙏🏼

[@drsdm23]

Namasthe and Pranams Sri Swamiji

[@malayadasbanerjee3539]

Koti pranams Swamiji, don't know how to thank you enough for your teachings...! 🙏🙏🙏

[@supritisarkar7771]

Thakur maa swamijir shrichorone ojosro koti pronam

[@vavanz]

❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤ thank you swami!

[@manjunathgangadhargangadha4364]

Beautiful explanation of Heranyagharba, Vishnu, Eshwar, Bhramar... 🙏

[@jyotsnapathania9590]

Pranam swami ji

[@maheshseshadri490]

Thanks Swamiji for a wonderful session 👍👍👍🙏🙏

[@adarshgandhi2901]

Thank you Swamiji you are soaked with the knowledge of consciousness and the way you explained it. It becomes easy to comprehend. I felt as if God himself is speaking to his devotees. May you live long to help the mankind to rise above the sorrows of this world 😇🙏💐

[@abantimajumdar9577]

অসাধারন ।অপূর্ব । প্রণাম মহারাজ ।

[@poushalimitra5730]

Second qst is presented so well . That one gives lots of clarity❤

[@sjeetmanale]

🙏🙏🙏 Suffering does not come from Karma but from Ignorance🙏🙏 Great teaching maharaj.

[@ivssarma6984]

Very good explanation.The explanation itself shows the depths of swmij's knowledge.Prostrations un to the lotus feet of swamiji.

[@historicpassionate2908]

Thank You Swamiji. Listening your talks itself Gives me Ananda 🙏

[@gitanair8480]

Don't know what to say!!! Thank God for attending!! So many pranams Sarvaji!!!proud of you Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Behape]

Koti koti Pranaam to Swamiji! One of the best if not the best Teachers of Vedanta available to us through the internet!! The translation of ANANDA in Sat Chit Ananda to mean bliss or happiness is causing a lot of issues at the level of the mind!! If we translate it as PEACE / SHANTI then this issue will disappear. The true BEING is at peace because as Swamiji said it has no desires/wants because it is complete. ANANDA = PEACE! Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

[@levanmelikishvili4373]

Amazing Q/A. Thank you 🙏🙏

[@shridharaithal1433]

Swamiji thanks for great insights. Where the question comes from seems to have answer embedded in it also, while truth remains untouched by all.

[@wuppistruppi4768]

Swamiji, deine Klarheit ist ein Segen. Freude erfüllt mein Herz, wenn ich dir zuhöre. Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland. Swamiji, your clarity is a blessing, joy fills my heart when I listen to you. Warm greetings from Germany 🙏❤

[@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259]

Namaste brother oom shanti जय स्वामी विवेकानंद

[@shivananda747]

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@dcoleman4444]

Swami Sarvapriyananda is one of the smartest Guru's I've ever heard. He is truly a gift to the world.

[@nishithmendon4637]

Not a second of his lectures is boring. Infact i rewind back to listen to his words just in case i missed something precious. Thank you so much Swamiji Sarvapriyanandaji.. 🙏🙏🙏

[@shubhadautgikar9624]

We are suffering due to ignorance.....such a beautiful teaching.

[@laika5757]

Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸

[@jyothirmayinagarur7947]

Whenever I listen the Q&A session of Swameejee, immediately I remember the Sloka “Parthovatsah sudheerbhoktha”If not for the questions put by the devotees from all over the Globe, we wouldn’t have got such answers of clarification about the Self knowledge(Dugdham of all Upanishads being collected in a big vessel of Divinity) Thankyou,everybody!

[@kamalkumarattinagaramu8065]

As usual ultimate 🙏🙏🙏

[@indrab2699]

Pronam Swami ji 🙏

[@shritasarkar339]

প্রণাম ঠাকুর শ্রী রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস দেব প্রণাম মা সারদা মা ।প্রণাম মহারাজ

[@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583]

Pranams Swamiji, thank you very much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@meerabhide4888]

Hari Om,Pranam,Swamiji

[@transcendingdimensions8412]

Thank you Swami, you’ve taught me so much 🕉☮️☮️☮️❤️

[@vijayajoshi6541]

Advaitha explained to its CORE 🕉🕉🕉🙏. Clarity like Crystal amazing 🙏🕉🙏

[@palashkumarnandi3946]

Wonderful talk 🙏🙏

[@Magmasingh95]

That beautiful simplified reply to that most complex questions is flattering

[@noorjahanjaganath2582]

What a wonderful speech…

[@nakshatraneogi8427]

Just trying to imagine how much knowledge you have... 🙏

[@rajaninambiar6444]

Radhe radhe Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@debjanilahiri7100]

Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Greengate777]

I just started watching this, and immediately in the first question we already hit a paradox. In fact, as a layman's general observation, you seem to hit paradoxes everywhere you turn in Advaita... They appear to be the end point of every thing you explore... perhaps endpoint isn't right... it's more like that gateless gate the Buddhists talk about... something you keep banging your head against until one day you realize it isn't there, and that it was never there. Then, the only thing left to do is to laugh at the silliness of it all. The great BIG obstacle was something your mind made.

[@Greengate777]

@@Theactualstoic There is an old story that goes something like this: after wondering aimlessly in the desert for as long as he could remember, man found his path. A bit to the side, under the shade of a tree, God turned to the Devil and said "see, he found his way to wisdom and knowledge on his own, it is done. He now knows the truth, so there's nothing you can do about it". To which the Devil smiled, and answered, "on the contrary, I shall help him organize all that knowledge".

[@lathagowda3844]

Reflection Theory opens up beautifully difference between Awareness &Maya 🙏🏼

[@haroldmoody9609]

A beautiful and concise treatment of the submitted questions... Many thanks Swami!

[@samarpitadattagupta8193]

My salutations to you Guruji. 🙏🙏

[@shyamdesai2281]

Amazing!!! Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@garypuckettmuse]

Great questions!

[@susheelapanekat7756]

Thank you Swamiji 🙏

[@rednosereddotenjoyempower3577]

Thank you for your instructions on upanishads 🌺🙏🏼🌿🤓🌼😇💖🌸💯👉🏼🤗

[@gitanair8480]

Swamiji , kindly share your meditation experiences with us!

[@mitalibhattacharya823]

So prolific! A divine intoxication.....

[@aksharma4304]

Superb analysis and answers of questions by Swami Sarvapriyananda. Keep it up and Be Happy with Happy Thoughts शुभेच्छा।।

[@viswanathanramaswamy8049]

🙏😌

[@rusheelkumar1963]

🙏🏻 highly obliged

[@gireeshneroth7127]

In a jeeva posture consciousness is living an illusion it weaves out of itself.

[@kumarakantirava7888]

@ 1:00:39 Swami ji, you are just " innocence personified " :) Joy to hear you. @Vedanta NY :- I think you have missed some Ask Swami sessions of December or November. I am waiting to re-hear Swamiji's answer to the Question on what Sri Ramakrishna means when he says, " I am the avatar but NOT in advaitic sense "

[@Leela_ya_Maaya]

In Advaita there no" two ". Only in the duality, two possible, Avatar and Bhakta.

[@rockingrishi1407]

Sri Ramakrishna in his gospel have hinted towards his avatarhood several times . But to most people he never spoke of him being Avatar sometimes he even rejected that because he wanted to remain immersed in bhakti. However whenever he hinted about his avatarhood to Vivekananda. The latter always took it as a god reflected in man. He was sceptical to believe him as an avatar. However towards the end of SRKs life Vivekananda happened to skeptical even then and at that time SRK said he who was rama he was krishna is now Ramakrishna but not in the vedantic sense. He was saguna bramhan not just a jiva.

[@kumarakantirava7888]

@@rockingrishi1407 thanks for your response. There are NO 2 Brahmans. Just One Brahman. This one Brahman may get fully expressed ( reflected ) in a Jiva whom we identify as Saguna Brahman. This is how I see. Waiting for Swamiji's answer.

[@kumarakantirava7888]

@@Leela_ya_Maaya Hmm. Thanks for your response.

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

This only meeannsv that in advaitic sense everyone is brahmanavatar or not

[@ronjohnson5185]

So lovable

[@shitaldas4864]

My great respect and honour to swami sarvapriyananadra, swami ji you are clearly explaining but sometimes I didn't understand such as theory of reflection, appearance and limitation how these will be connection (not contact) in our practical life. I am saying from Bangladesh if I come in New York then I want to meet with you.

[@rajgopal28]

Swamyjee charansaprash now whole world inside outside is experience never ever heard about mind universe feels how the outerworld slavery us 🙏🙏

[@khushbooraval5519]

Pranam🙏🙏

[@nkoppiker5435]

Pranam Swami 🙏🙏 I am indeed privileged and blessed that you chose to answer my question. I should have used my words more carefully. I should have asked can we remain in pure Conciousness or Turiya temporarily. You have answered so well that all doubts are removed. Tat Twam Asi 🙏🙏🙏

[@nkoppiker5435]

On 10/01/2022

[@playalong7269]

Hello, how did you ask the question to Swami ji? What is the procedure? If you plz let me know...

[@deepakchughani2666]

With regards to Swami JI's explanation of the psychological experience of Turiya i would like to share two unconventional Haikus.....here goes first one In that moment "I" did not exist All was beauty and love In this moment Here I am Searching And the next one At the traffic stop After the thunderstorm Rainbow Samadhi Thanks for reading

[@viswanathanramaswamy8049]

🙏

[@Ushamurthy8831]

Swamiji🙏

[@Ignaz366]

Swami ji really knows his chit! (get it! lol) Sat Chit Ananda? Ok, I will see myself out.

[@dbn281]

Really good Brian 😆

[@chandrakantshanbhag3058]

JAY RAMAKRISHNA.

[@rahulkeni2306]

जड काया को ज्ञान नहीं है स्वयं ही अपने सतत क्षरण का। ज्ञान जिसे होता वह अमृत, उसे न अनुभव कभी मरण का।

[@vijayaraghavan5298]

🙏🙏🌹👌👌

[@bhattacharya6774]

Thanks to you- tube ,thanks to the talks of various Swamijis of RKM we know ( at least listening) about the greatest treasure of this earth, the UPANISAD. It's really a shame , in India ,the land UPANISAD, this most scientific knowledge is never made a part of regular educational curriculum ! This is the curse of so called secular education. The philosopher of the west past & present appear liliput comparing with Guliver like UPANISADIC knowledge ,but ,unfortunately, so called learned of even India, blindly follow those western philosophers other than gems of India ! THIS IS CALLED IRONY IF FATE !!

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

But Sri Ramakrishna has made the famous statement that an empty stomach is not fit for religion . So let India first become prosperous Till then religion can wait!!!

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

Liliput or pigmies??!

[@chaitanyakulkarni9994]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vasukinagabhushan]

I did not find enlightenment. I find everything enlightning.

[@rupakmidya2084]

Swamiji, during my early understanding of Advaita, my experiencing seemed to be directed from some point in the body or mind to the outside. However now, the experiencing seems to be from everywhere towards the body mind. If you could give some pointers inorder to understand this change.

[@justatalk2648]

Thanks for a great lecture. I feel lot of this is play of words. Simple question gets complicated answer. If consciousness is like reflection of the Sun in a mirror or water in a clay pot , what happens to it when the pot is destroyed or the frame that the mirror is in is taken out. (The frame is physical body , glass is astral or subtle body and material that makes glass a mirror is the causal body)So what happens to the reflection after death. I understand that consciousness is there everywhere and mind etc cannot function without it , but then is JAVATMA different every time physical body dies ?The answer I am sure the answer will be ambiguous.

[@dilipkhalatkar8538]

reflection disappears that's all.

[@ramthian]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧

[@nutansodha9173]

🙏🙏🙏

[@pinushooterphotography]

🙏Pranam Maharaj. I have a question. If one consciousness is illuminating all the Jivas mind then why different people think differently? Why they all can’t think in the same line? Is it because of prarabhdha? - Dr Pinaki Baidya from Siliguri, West Bengal.

[@erickbedoya435]

❤

[@jessealedonis466]

The highest teaching for advanced souls is much simpler. See: the Ribhu Gita on KZbin

[@ssudhak2]

Swamiji, the question of Karma is different from what you answered. If I dont have free will, then I am not responsible for my actions. So why should Karma be applicable for me. Understand as conciousness Karma is not applicable for us.

[@krishtheindian]

In my understanding, swamiji replied that for the vyavakarika plane, freewill is applicable, meaning you have free will and you’re responsible for your actions. For the Paramarthika plane, no need for freewill because there is no mind. Freewill is only applicable for mind - not for the soul. Also he clearly stated suffering/happiness is the state of the mind. Only in the realm of mind you’ve Karma and it’s effects! That’s my understanding!!

[@supritisarkar7771]

Pronam moharaj

[@madhurimasen2134]

So brahma, the hiranyagarbha can be called the summation of all enlightened minds? Because only enlightened minds are desireless and perfectly happy

[@alecmisra4964]

The problem is that clay is always envisaged in some form, whereas with turiya we are expected to imagine some Platonic property of "clayness" that is (so to speak) without form. This is impossible to achieve except perhaps apperceptively.

[@thyagarajant.r.3256]

What is the meaning of the statement that saraswati is the consort of Brahma??

[@RD-xg6vt]

Swami darkness and light is co-dependent.......from darkness arises light/material........that glows all the suns...........that is on macro scale and micro level is a resemblance of .you know..swami...i have more and moreover

[@anymanu7579]

Pranam Swamiji... Plz give solution as per advaita vedanta philosophy to a question long having raised inside me. How can truthful & empathetic individuals in a society deal with barbaric, cunning fundamentalists working as a team, who have no respect in anything other than their own beliefs & can go to any means to harm those who don't believe in their ideology ?

[@paramitabose2708]

👍👌🙂

[@okboi286]

Starting flute song????? Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Riddhanand]

Reminds me of the Higgs boson lmao that makes it possible for all other particles to have mass. Without Higgs boson no mass

[@sunilkumar-ws7ld]

Om tat sat exactly a physics class

[@deepakchughani2666]

The three different theories........Limitation, Reflection and Appearence, remind me of the seemingly contradictory statements of Lord Krishna in Bhagawad Geeta's Chapter 9. I see some parallel connections here, but I am not able to articulate. Any thoughts on this?