54. Mandukya Upanishad | Chapter 4 Karika 1 | 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 4 Karika 1.

Karika 1:
jñānenā''kāśakalpena dharmānyo gaganopamān |
jñeyābhinnena saṃbuddhastaṃ vande dvipadāṃ varam || 1 ||

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[amritradha]

With the space aspect used to explain the Brahman it is a super description . Guruji pranamam to your ability to put things so simply and with clarity personifica.

[mokshajetley]

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

[amanitamuscaria]

I would love a course on Indian Philisophy!

[tattvamasmi]

Swami told, he is going teach Course on Indian Philosophies. Can someone give link for the recordings?

[hershchat]

Where the last question on, “is consciousness an allusion to the Atma”. Swamiji says, yes, and that the concept gets mixed up with the mind.

Some clarification is needed here.

The mind doesn’t see the mind. The Atma is how we are aware of the mind. So the mind cannot know that it knows that the Atma is consciousness. The mind isn’t aware that the Atma is aware of it… this is trivial.

So how does the mind establish that what it knows is made awareness by consciousness?

The mind knows consciousness as a GPS knows a map, or a spectrophotometer knows colors, or a self driving car knows a journey. It is mechanistic. The mind is dealing in categories and relationships and transforms and intuitions. The mind knows to eat a fruit based on sensory input (and memory), similar to how a phone recognizes a person from a passcode. That is to say, mechanistically.

These mental activities are enabled into awareness by consciousness FOR CONSCIOUSNESS.

You, who is aware of this writing right now— your mind read it and processed it mechanistically, and created a vritti out of it— you are consciousness. The vritti was encoded with an “aham” bhav. Hence your consciousness has a, “I am reading this …” sense. All the information content of your awareness is from the mind. Alls that the consciousness has added is the “isness”, the sense of happening, the awareness.

The information and ego contents so dominate the sense of awareness that we ascribe all of awareness to the mind.

[bkgupta]

Swami ji please describe explain more on vivartvaad siddhanta of Vedanta.

[bkgupta]

If swami ji has given lecture on mandukya then please release running video of it.why can't you load that.

[aadya]

Advaita Non dual
Ajatavad no creation
Asparsha no contact
Amnibhava No mind