Live Satsang (Q&A) with Swami Tadatmananda (8 September 2024)

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:32 What is upasana yoga?
0:06:29 How does a guru decide that a shishya is ready for sanyasa?
0:13:26 How to determine our svadharma?
0:19:20 How do the “four states of Consciousness” relate to the eight limbs of Patanjali Yoga?
0:23:34 Why isn’t enlightenment an event?
0:29:24 How to be emotionally engaged without being controlled by emotions?
0:32:38 How did Swamiji’s engineering background shape his spiritual journey?
0:36:13 Are the terms Consciousness and Awareness interchangeable in Advaita Vedanta?
0:38:45 What is meant by the term essence?
0:40:37 How to discern what is best for us among the diverse teachings of Vedic tradition?
0:45:35 How to handle the guilt of enjoying good fortune?
0:51:53 How is the meaning of ananda different as used in ananda-maya kosha and Satchitananda Atma?
0:56:36 Is the term prajna in “Prajnanam Brahma” the same as that in Mandukya mantra #7?
1:00:05 Must karma yoga be given up to attain enlightenment?
1:05:45 What is the distinction between shruti and smriti?
1:10:30 Outro

[jessealedonis]

Awesome thank you for confirming those who have been at this for decades !

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

Another Glasgow-based person, going by the name 'Yogi', has previously asked questions of Swamiji on recent satsang streams.

I would like to get in touch with Yogi in order re. Arsha Vidya activities in Scotland and potentially in Glasgow too.

[rameshgupta]

In my humble opinion, उप+आसन=उपासना, sitting near your आराध्या, in long उपासना, one slowly tenda to concentrate, like doing pooja of your इष्ट, leads to meditative state.

[alukuhito]

Thank you, Swami-ji. A few years ago I wanted to read the Brahma Sutras because I was interested in the idea of understanding seemingly contradictory statements in Vedanta. I bought a copy, The Vedanta-Sutras - Badarayana and Madhava, and I just couldn't get through more than a couple of pages. It was super dry for me. I don't know if it's supposed to be this way or not. Anyway, I guess other scripture does enough for me, that I don't really have to read through it. :) 🙏

[gokulmehta]

Enlightenment is not in *movement of time*. It’s beyond measurement

[JanardhananPS-kg]

Dear Swamiji,
I have a different opinion about the comment you made about Fourier Transform. With Masters in Electronics and Computer Science, I have worked in IT industry for 4 decades. During my career, I used Fourier Transform in various projects for about 10 years. Fourier Transform is a tool for transformation between Time and Frequency domains. The same Fourier Transform is used for transformation between space and frequency domains (image processing). For everything we hear and see, there is an equivalent representation in Frequency domain. Frequency domain is like Brahman, which is unified and cannot be perceived by normal human beings. We use instruments like Spectrum analyzer to examine time series data in the frequency domain. Similar to Fourier transform, all mathematical algorithms are used by practicing engineers and scientists during their career.

[gokulmehta]

Doesn’t Advait Vedanta state that “Death is an Illusion “

[kerrydubord]

In the destroying of the mind and such, to me this sounds cruel, the word I find more accurate is in the subsiding of the mind.
The agent of being, subsides to its real being. The atman within is Brahman without, thee essence of One.