Live Satsang (Q&A) with Swami Tadatmananda (29 September 2024)

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:14 What can we do to become emotionally mature?
0:03:50 How do the views on moksha in Advaita and Vishishtadvaita differ?
0:10:55 If Ishvara can’t be bribed, how come there are Vedic rituals for producing particular results?
0:14:45 Why are enlightened beings hesitant to admit that they are enlightened?
0:21:40 How to explain free will if Ishvara is the all-doer?
0:24:41 Is Vedanta needed to reveal that we are Consciousness?
0:32:28 What is the two-step process for self-realization in Vedanta?
0:34:25 What is the difference between an enlightened person and an avatar?
0:36:40 How to understand Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on cultivating self-confidence?
0:40:05 What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
0:41:22 What is the difference between maya and reality?
0:42:26 How is Brahman beyond both space and time?
0:44:59 Does Ishvara have a manifest as well as an unmanifest state?
0:46:45 What is the purpose of life?
0:52:55 Did Ishvara have a purpose for creation?
0:54:55 What is the optimal age to begin Vedantic sadhana?
0:58:12 Is enlightenment a moving target?
1:00:09 Whose mind experiences bliss in moksha?
1:01:56 What is the Vedantic view on moksha after death?
1:03:17 How does the sukshma sharira get associated with the fetus?
1:04:51 How to use Vedanta as a pramana?
1:07:21 Outro

[harishprabhu]

Swami Tadatmananda is a marvel in advaita vedanta and technically very logical and sound arguments

[rick]

My knowledge is very little. But I love listening to these Satsangs . I always feel very uplifted afterwards. So a big thank you .

[thetransferaccount]

these sessions are so peaceful and wonderful too

[torussaga]

Your video series Atma Bodha is like a jewel teaching to guide self-enquiry for understanding of Vedanta methods of enquiry.

[Toxicashellmonsanto]

Always such a wonderful teaching. Thank you !

[krishnansm]

Very well said Swamiji. Let people follow what they feel comfortable with but start somewhere !

[GoldTopLane]

What a boon to have access to the direct expression of Advita Vedanta. Thank you Swamiji - the Q&A always answers my questions & realigns my awareness back to direct self-inquiry 🙏🌸🌏⭐️🙏

[sarthaktiwari]

I am from Vrindavan, India!
Swami ji, I would like to tell you something very important.
Islam and Christianity are continuously influencing India and Hindus
Today's Hindus consider Islam and Christianity to be good, logical while our own Hinduism is considered illogical, unscientific, irrational and wrong
And in our India there is no scholar to answer on Islam and Christianity.
Many Christian And Islamic Scholars Like Zakir Naik is continuously speaking against Hinduism and no Hindu preacher or Hindu scholar comes forward to answer him. Why?
Isn't it your responsibility to answer Zakir Naik?
Zakir Naik is banned in India but he is invited to India's neighbouring country Pakistan and from there he influences the Hindus of India and tries his best to convert them to his religion.
Which he has already done before.
How can we stop Hindus from converting to other religions to save themselves?
Please guide us.
Your guidance is much needed

[vjayaraman]

Your YouTube recording on Reincarnation explains the sukshma sarira question

[alukuhito]

Thank you, Swami-ji. 🙏 As a jiva, I find the whole predestination / free will thing very confusing. Free will doesn't make sense to me. It seems that I have free will, but every choice I make is a result of millions of factors, which themselves are the result of millions of factors, and so on. It seems that Isvara, the totality, is the doer, not Jiva. Free will seems to be an illusion. And whether or not it's an illusion, it's still something observed by me, so it's not me with the free will.

[rsr]

I am on board with Swamiji’s observation around 21:45 that Vedanta does not view Ishvara as the all-doer in reality. However, at the risk of sounding overly philosophical, I would add that Vedanta implies that Ishvara is the all-doer in appearance. In reality, there is only Ishvara without a second and hence, logically, Ishvara has no need to do anything. Ergo, in reality, Ishvara is free of doership. However, non-dual Ishvara is also free to appear as a plurality of doers through the power of maya and, hence, Ishvara is free to appear as the all-doer. Perhaps, this is what Sri Shankara conveys in Upadesha Sahasri verse 17.78, which Swamiji translates as “Doing all without action, pure, running beyond while standing, unborn, because of maya’s power becoming many (is atma)”. Also, Ishvara as the all-doer implies that free will is mithya. Furthermore, the mistaken belief that free will is satyam keeps us in samsara.

[krishnansm]

You are absolutely right Swamiji. Let us not get into these arguments about schools of Vedanta but get on with Sadhana !

[krishnansm]

Post Mimamsa we have moved from Rituals to spirituals !

[tim]

What if I love my suffering?An identity formed in that manner of suffering.Wouldnt freedom from suffering be the last thing I'd want?What then? How to cultivate true freedom from suffering.Not maintaining a seeker formed and identified with suffering.

[PhillipBell]

Aitareya Upanishad speaks of humans coming from water, passing through the virile member of man to give birth to a baby. It also asks the famous question of Ramana Maharshi, "Who am I?"

[vjayaraman]

That's the difference between incarnation & reincarnation..

[vjayaraman]

Eat, drink and be merry..Charuvalkers

[thenightwatchman]

so whats the point. why not just be atheist at that point if the end goal is eternal oblivion? this crap is such a pointless waste of effort if it cant promise anything beyond the obvious...

[thenightwatchman]

you cant feel contentment if you arent even awake.... nice bait and switch but as a gnostic i know not to fall for such shit. i have not strived and struggled all my life to be put on ice. seems to defeat the purpose of escapinng this prison planet.