Consciousness beautifully explained in 200 sec | Swami Sarvapriyananda at IIT Kanpur

Consciousness and the Mind-body problem appears as one of the most difficult theories in philosophy. But Swami Sarvapriyananda makes it so simple, anyone can relate and interpret from this.

Have a look at this beautiful piece of work done at IIT Kanpur, 5 years back.

[jamespoff]

I have searched for these 200 seconds my whole 54 years ( and its my birthday) thank you so much you have showed me how to free me

[jomooy]

What a perfectly clear explanation of consciousness mind and body. I've struggled with CH 9 of the Bhagavad Gita, Verse 4 for years. This captures it succinctly in such an easy to understand way. Bowing to Swami with deepest gratitude

[malkdk]

Someone once told me that consciousness created the universe in order to experience itself

[sujitaditya]

Wish we had teachers like him in our schools. This 3 minutes video is way more valuable than we spend 30 months in a school.

[noelhughes]

When consciousness leaves the body it experiences the dimension it enters. Anyone who has had the experience of their consciousness without the body knows this to be true. It's just that what is experienced is not like any human experience. It's infinitely better.

[bangaloresatish]

Best description of consciousness by Swamiji. Thank you.

[happypanda]

His example of the Light and Palm to explain Consciousness is simply marvelous. I've watched numerous video talking about Consciousness but find it difficult to grasp the idea.

[rickynelsun]

His simplistic explanation of consciousness makes it easy to understand! This is how it works! Well done! Thank you!

[cleverfellow]

I think brain captures consciousness like eye catches light.

[NickyDana]

Thankfully Science is finally beginning to catch up with the conscious field notion etc...great discourse! Blessings Prabhu! ✨🙏🏼✨

[alextrusk]

Ill be enlightened before i learn to spell consciousness without predicting text

[collinwadham]

What I am aware of, is that I am unaware of all the healings which start when I am injured...UNLESS I can see or feel the damage. So I, my self-aware consciousness, will know nothing of such happenings and so my body, heals itself without MY conscious knowledge. Programmed to do so, But NOT by me. Not by MY self-consciousness. These things happen daily inside me, on my back, in many unseen bodily places. This "subconscious" activity indicates a "duality", WITHIN this being called "me". "I", have no knowledge of what's going on and how to repair. So "I" reason, "I", am not the body, But AM, a part of it. Thoughts, I see as not solid, not physical. When my physical body sleeps, I am still "alive", But conscious in another realm, still "me", But in a different dimension. No pain, but all the emotions. I learn there. Talk with people, just like here. Am I out of body, elsewhere, because I often remember having to leave "there", to return "here"? That's when I awake. This must happen to all humans and maybe animals also. We don't know all that surrounds us. What our senses allow us, through sight, sound, touch, is so little of what is being discovered. Even with added technologies, we only recognise about 0.5% of light, sound and touch. So let no man say "he knows", because even the knowledge of it will need much learning before understanding is gained. Be humble with each other.

[krishnamsdhoni]

Consciousness is realising existence while being self aware. Just like how you have awareness so you move your body as per intentions, if there is no awareness there s no movement its only a dead body. nature also moves by certain intentions due to consciousness. Gyana is about understanding its ways

[davidmartin]

What a superb explanation, I have tried many times to explain this to friends who think I am just a mad Buddhist. Namaste

[rahuls]

So amazing Hindu sages in the past researched and clearly shared these. And you have again distilled and shared it for 2024 generation. Really awesome work by all of you. That too selfless and for common good. Thank you Sir 🙏

[englishwinglish]

Wonderful Swamiji ! Thank you for imparting your super knowledge of Valuable Indian scriptures with so much clarity and simplicity..

[StephenS-]

So, a logical statement would be " You and I are God experiencing itself. "

[nedunuri]

Thanks a lot Swamiji for the excellent explanation which is definitely needed in these days of modern science which gives a lot of room for confusions confounded. We are thankful to you., Swamiji.

[jeylful]

Thank you, Swamiji. And completely consistent with what people who have experienced a Near Death Experience say. They suffer an accident/have an operation and their consciousness leaves the body. They continue to exist can can see what is happening but we cannot see they have left their bodies.

[rahulrajan]

When you put it this way, it makes perfect sense to think that consciousness is eternally present and not a product of mind and body.
Amazing teaching!