What dies when we die? | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses the question, “Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know?"

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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. ABOUT US Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

[VedantaKesari]

Non-duality teacher John Wheeler, student of Sailor Bob Adamson of Melbourne Non-duality, was at a funeral. About the dead person someone told Wheeler "No more Presence for him!" Wheeler replied "That's from your perspective, not his."

[nihaldixit]

swami ji’s voice is enough to bring me at ease and peace and dwell in my real nature…forever grateful🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[atrayeeroy]

Good question, specially the second part. Makes one enquire about Consciousness itself and it's nature! Pronam Maharaj. Interesting elaborations. 🙏☺️

[kasturigoswami]

Maharaj this is an indirect evidence that 'I'am different from my body..
খুব ভালো লাগলো আপনার বোঝানো।
Thank you🌹🌹

[devindranmuni]

Thank you so much Swamiji🙏🏽 my wonderful journey began after listening to your first lecture, and subsequently it become a conversation and now hearing your voice itself is an experience 🌹

[atmannityananda-autognosia]

❤ Of course we really doe as a person.
❤What remains is not personal 😮

[radhakrishnanv]

Hari Om !
When we say someone died, the body has lost its ability to conduct the life since it has perished. Since we, each person around is identifying himself/herself with his/her respective body+mind setup(as I am), we have the habit of telling the death of a body as the death of the person. It is an error of mixing two levels of "order of realities"(purusha and prakriti) and say "person died" for the body's death. In another view point it's not wrong to respect kshetra even though kshetragnya(purusha) is no more active in the kshetra(prakriti) which is declared as dead. It is simply a way of addressing. It is like the bulb is fused but electricity is intact.
One thing to be noted.... If I take myself as this body+mind setup then I die when this body+mind is dead (for me nothing exists after death). If I am clear that I am not this body+mind setup then whatever happens to this (kshetra, prakriti) is not a significant issue for the "I". When a bulb fuses it is not a topic of discussion for the electricity which was keeping it alive so far.

[dharmapalsharma]

🌺☯️☪️🔯🕎🕉️✝️☮️🌺
नास्तो विद्यते भावोः…
नाभावो विद्यते सत्…
🌺✝️☯️🕉️🕎🔯☪️☮️🌺

[TatTvamAsi_सोऽहम्]

Q :- Are we actually die when the body dies ?
A :- The body, mind, Consciousness etc are material/Jad (Because, consciousness arises from the body, So when there is no Body there is no Consciousness→SBG 7.4 & 7.5)
Generally, when a person is born, he/she associated with the body and by associating with the body ego arises. The ego identifies itself with the body. Thus this ego acquires a name, form, qualities etc. When I alive, the feeling of my presence is always there. Like I am writing, I am listening music, I am doing this, I am doing that, I am an engineer, I am a scientist etc etc.
From Vedanta I know that my true nature is pure consciousness, the Sachidanand Atma and this body, mind, ego etc are belong to prakrati which generally at the time of death perishes.
So when the body dies mind, thought, ego, intellect etc also die. But, when I understand my true nature as Atmān my consciousness becomes pure and thus it stops from false identifications like attaching itself with the body, mind, prakrati, ego etc. So, when the body of an enlightened person dies, the person not dies.
Because, the person is no more the body, mind, ego, consciousness, intellect etc. So, what happens is after the death of the body mind, ego, intellect etc all die and the enlightened person remains as pure awareness (aware of it's existence).This pure awareness is very similar to that of Permanent Deep Sleep (You can call it "Turiya") where there is no me or the world, there is just awareness (Forget duality there is not even singularity).

[sukumardutta]

Bhagawad gita says the man of self realisation gets rid of the fear of death for having attained knowledge of the true Self has become immortal It is not killed when the body is killed

[tapasdutta]

Excellent clarification. I would like to touch my forehead on your foot.