25. Mandukya Upanishad | Chapter 2 Karika 19-23 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied with Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Chapter 2 Karika 19-23.

Karika 19:
prāṇādibhiranantaiśca bhāvairetairvikalpitaḥ |
māyaiṣā tasya devasya yayā saṃmohitaḥ svayam || 19 ||

Karika 20:
prāṇa iti prāṇavido bhūtānīti ca tadvidaḥ |
guṇā iti guṇavidastattvānīti ca tadvidaḥ || 20 ||

Karika 21:
pādā iti pādavido viṣayā iti tadvidaḥ |
lokā iti lokavido devā iti ca tadvidaḥ || 21 ||

Karika 22:
lvedā iti vedavido yajñā iti ca tadvidaḥ |
bhokteti ca bhoktṛvido bhojyamiti ca tadvidaḥ || 22 ||

Karika 23:
sūkṣma iti sūkṣmavidaḥ sthūla iti ca tadvidaḥ |
mūrta iti mūrtavido'mūrta iti ca tadvidaḥ || 23 ||

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[sandeepsaxena]

Beautiful exposition.
Amazed at the staggering intellect of Sh Gaudapada.
'The Ultimate Reality is not an object of experience...'

[vishnuraj]

Pranam Samiji.. Thank you vendanata society for uploading all sequence...

[vimalsingh]

What a great explanation of "changing seer" as person and unchanging "seer" as atam/self. Pranaam Swamiji

[mokshajetley]

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

[bkgupta]

Mind is subtle matter.
It depends upon energy from consciousness to perform its functions.
Consciousness has made matter.
Like wave and particle are alike and interchange their functions.
Light and information are eternal reality.

[bkgupta]

Consciousness Brahman Atman is eternal infinite transcendent non dual unchanging reality and is capable of all ashta siddhis nava nidhis and much more than anything desirable.

[pratik]

Man : Thinking function
Budhhi : That function which gets it
Chitta : Memory
Ahankar : Ego

[nishpan]

Sometimes...I feel its so sad that this great knowledge of India is being discussed in America....

[nilushukla]

There was a question - when does the necklace stop being the necklace and become gold. Swami answered that it does not become gold as it is always gold. But the first part of the question still remains - when necklace stops being necklace. Probably the answer will be that the necklace is never there as it is not a reality and only appearance. But being a perceptive reality, it still needs to be negated with some effort. That effort needs to be defined.

[dolonbiswas]

Pranam swamiji, we want to hear this lecture in Bengali also.

[skanarally]

What if we see it as ‘gold necklace’ ? Should it be either gold OR necklace? But he is right. Examples are just pointers and should not be stretched. Because ultimately, gold is also a name and a form.

[shivananda]

Probably because of western education these students are asking same questions repeatedly.
They need to listen to great gurus like Swamiji and then sit down in isolation and contemplate on doubts that arise in mind.
These students should not interrupt class so many times with same questions.

[panalaska]

Neti neti strategy sounds like my husband who will tell me what he wants to eat for dinner. Not this, not that. Finally i told him just tell me what you DO want.

[bkgupta]

Consciousness alone itself can do what functions.
Please tell how consciousness is useful in itself alone.

[aashagandhi]

Philosophy of Bhojyam are known as Supakaaras