Swami Sarvapriyananda- BHAGVAD GITA FOR STUDENTS  at IIT Kanpur

Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta as presented in Drg Drsya Viveka, in this series of 12 talks. This talk - delivered on January 12, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verse 1 in "Drg Drsya Viveka: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen".

Introduction to Vedanta

Introduction to Vedanta - Drg-Drsya Viveka Part 1

Reading of Chapter 4 of the Ribhu-gita with rāga Bhairavi background

Ribhu-gita Readings Ch. 4

Ribhu-gita Reading 4.1: There is no non-Self

Swami Sarvapriyananda, Minister of the Vedanta Society of New York, returns to Santa Barbara for a special Friday evening spiritual talk on March 17, 2017, where his topic is the Ashtavakra Samhita, or Song of Ashtavakra. Swami explains the great importance of this ancient Vedantic scripture, and leads us through four of its verses.  An inspirational and educational talk!

SB Spiritual Talk

Ashtavakra Samhita  - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Is destiny hereditary? Can the ancient concept of karma help us understand genetics? Vedanta Society’s Swami Sarvapriyananda meets with leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell to trace human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level. In his new book Innate Dr. Mitchell argues it all lies in the wiring of our brains. Will Swami Sarvapriyananda argue otherwise?

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Swami Sarvapriyananda + Kevin Mitchell: Genetics Is Karma

This discourse from Swami Sarvapriyananda is inspired by a lecture from Swami Vivekananda: "The Real and the Apparent Man" (Jnana Yoga).
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The Real and the Apparent | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on February 9th, 2020. List of questions with timestamps:
• 6:25 --  How to know the Self when It cannot be objectified? Is inference sufficient?
• 27:30 -- While we agree that waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are experienced in consciousness, why can't we say that they are real instead of unreal since they are indeed experienced? 
• 44:50 -- If the realization of atman is an experiential reality, then why is there a logical conflict between different spiritual traditions? Does it mean that the realized master's have different experiences?
•  54:35 -- If consciousness illumines Maya, then why does it need the support of Maya to realize itself?  

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Ask Swami 5/3/2020

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 5 (Mahavakya Viveka) of the Panchadasi, a fourteenth century manual on Advaita Vedanta written by Vidyaranya. This lecture is Part 1 of an online retreat from Aug 2020.

Mahavakya Viveka - Panchadasi (Part 1) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

01 Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play by Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj

Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation as part of a retreat in Garrison, New York.

Mindfulness Meditation | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Vedantasara (Essence of Vedanta), which is a 15th-century Advaita Vedanta text written by Sadananda Yogendra Saraswati.

19. Vedantasara | Texts 122-127 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Talks on Vedanta given by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York (founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1894).
 
Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. 

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