Consciousness: Advaita Vedanta's Teachings about Your TRUE Nature - Atma
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- According to the non-dual teachings of Vedanta, your consciousness is utterly unaffected by all sources of suffering in life, like sunlight is unaffected by what it illumines. By discovering this truth, which was first taught by the sages of ancient India, one can become completely free from suffering and enjoy the state of liberation -- moksha.
Atma, the true self, is the consciousness or awareness by which you know all your vrittis, your thoughts, emotions and perceptions, that arise in your mind, manas. As such, atma is the sakshi, the detached observer or awareful witness of those vrittis, and remains unaffected by them.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha.org/
I am an Ex-Muslim. Nowadays I am extensively listening about Hindu Philosophy regarding Non-duality. I am quite impressed by it. However I am curious that in reincarnation, who is reincarnated - pure conscience or egoic self? I will be greatly obliged if my question is answered by Swami Tadatmananda.
Islam say the same but in other way. Look at sufism
I had been a preacher of ahmadiyya branch of Islam for more than 30 years. Ahmadiyya is also a sort of Sufi Islam. But after reading Quran and the life of Muhammad with unbiased mind, I can say for sure that Sufism is a Sugar Coated Islam. The actual Islam is nothing but hatred and violence. Just read Quran chapter 9 and you will be shocked to realize that it is full of hatred of non- Muslims.
pure consciousness is not plural, it's the one without a second, it does not die and it isn't born. reincarnation is the continuation of the karma, which belongs to the mind or ego.
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Thank you for providing clarity on such a complex topic. Enjoy the movie of life!
@Albert Tanner of course! :-)
Swamiji is a master at presenting complex vedantic concepts in a manner understandable by lay people.. I'm grateful indeed.
I want to thank you for making me understand how the conciousness is apart from mind as I was struggling to understand this complexity between mind and consciousness
Thank you, Swamiji. You are like the lamp illuminating our minds.
Swamiji's explanations are clear and beautifully presented in an easy to understand commentary which makes such a complex "subject" as consciousness comprehensible. The accompanying illustrations add to the effectiveness of explanations. I will highly recommend and encourage our grand children to listen to this presentation. Thanks for making this available to all in your website.
Thank you so much. I finally understand the word consciousness. Being a beginner, your teaching is so clear and powerful. I look forward to all other teaching of yours. I wish someday I will be able to meet you personally and be your student for my life.
Aha moment for me Swami ji! Such a perfect analogy and our favourite movie to understand the observer & what being observed in our mind👌 Thank you so much!! 🙏❤️
Aatmiya GURUJi.
Hare Krsna.
Hearing YOU explaining the difference between CONSCIOUSNESS and Thoughts/Emotions/Sensations with appropriate examples is surely guiding UNDERSTANDING better.
This is enabling to forget/forgo unpleasant Experiences soon and Experience HAPPINESS for longer durations.
Loving you one and all Hari Bhakta Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
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Extraordinary talent for teaching. Remarkable explanation every single time.. Was looking for him on Instagram but he doesn't have a page. Yet.. xx..
Just the other day I was smilingly saying to myself, "If I heard the word *Suffering* once more, I'm going to throw up! :) This word, suffering, is mostly used by Buddhists. Wrongly (I feel) translated from the Pali/Sanskrit word "Dukkha," it refers to the nature of our lives. It is difficult to be sure as to whether the Buddha said that "suffering exists," (likely) or whether it is a blanket statement of "life is suffering." (not likely) Sometimes we feel miserable and sometimes we feel joyful. Is that what psychiatrists call a bipolar state? If the world is ruled by psychiatrists, all of us need to be on antidepressants! If the essential nature of human life is suffering, then we would not willingly reincarnate into yet another human life: yes, we have a choice; we are not forced into reincarnation. Human life is composed of a myriad of experiences. We incarnate in order to experience it all. I have walked through the slums of India, and so often see such pure joy in the children, who are completely oblivious of the squalor around them. Our innate nature is joy but as we grow up we get more and more overwhelmed with the burdens of life.
If you go to a patient in agony with pain from terminal cancer, would you dare give a summary of this talk to such a person? The family likely will throw you out, perhaps violently. But, it is worth our while to understand what is being taught in this lecture. Indeed, more and more psychologists are teaching mindfulness in order to deal with pain, and cutting back on mind numbing medicines (opioid drugs).
These videos are a treasure that I'm grateful and lucky to have found!!! Super clear and deep explanations. Thank you very much for putting the work, and sharing it for free to "the world". Love
Superb explanation with graphics , thanks for using examples from Bollywood too - Swamiji 😄 !! Pranams!🙏
Very profound explaination. Not seen such explaination with such clarity throughout my life till date. Thanks alot . 🙏🙏
Superb explanation....very clear especially for those who are on the path of meditation. Thanks a lot
Swamiji, I am blessed as I have found your great explanation of Vedanta. Such true knowledge has been delivered by you in very easy & understandable way. I touch your feet. 🙏
Amazing clarity. Thanks, Swamiji
Ha! I love the KKKG reference at the end. That was a Bollywood movie that even my very Catholic mother liked
🕉GRACIAS. GRACIAS. GRACIAS......
Simple and beautiful!!! Pranams!!
Light represent consciousness. Beautiful knowledgeable, information.
What a blessing you are!
Excellent. Thanks Swamiji
Aatmiya DIVINITY
AUM. TAT SAT.
HARE KRSNA.
Absolutely Clearly, concisely, convincingly describing Consciousness is separate from thoughts, emotions, sensations Experienced by MIND.
Illustrations, cars, cenema screen, are lasting impressions producing, never forgetting.
Dark Room beautifully illustrating *Experiencing Absence*.
I Am OK NO Matter What
Superior explanation of essential terms! Thank you.
Pranams to the divine lotus feets of Swami Tadatmananda ji Maharaj. हरि ॐ!
Thank you Guruji..🙏
Unparallell ,amazing ,thanku so much 🙏🏽
Pranams Swamiji. I am practicing Vedantic wisdom for a few years. Your videos are adding super clarity to my understandings about the Truth. Thank you very much. Truth is explained with a simple example.
Thanks swami ji for sharing your DIVINE wisdom
The clearest and simplest explanation I have aver heard about advaita vedanta
Thank you for the clear simple explanation. God bless you.
Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸👍
Very Well Explained
Pranam Swamiji... presented very beautifully and lucidly. Thanks
From personal experience and lots of it, I now know that it is possible to stand separate from the experience of life even when dipping in and out of emotional pain. The secret is introspection which ultimately brings one to the realisation that life is just an experience. Nothing more and Nothing less and I as the observer am not the experience.
Thank you.
Wow!!! ❤❤ Amazing Teachings and metaphor ❤
Thank you so much. It's clear to understand what you say. It change my life. Valuable video. Good bless you. ❤🙏🙏🙏
Super clear! Thank you!
Gratidão 🙏❤️🕉
Excellent explanation..just splendid
Questi video sono una benedizione di Dio 🙏🏻🕉️🌟
Swamiji is really gifted being for mankind.
I appreciate swamiji's teachings
This channel is a wonderful gift. Let us all be grateful that this channel can serve to help us in our own introspection and self-enquiry to tread those paths out of the forest of Samsara ourselves, making them well-worn and enabling our effortless travel through this temporary state of being. Let us be grateful of our quality of Sritti, birthed by our current and past Karmas, deserved and undeserved, which led us to find a Guru such as Swami Tadatmananda while we are capable of mind students to hear and understand these teachings. To see more clearly the teachings of the Vedanta, in this method, a fitting tool for us to recognize our Sakshi and its relation to Atma and Brahman. Let us remember to put into practice these teachings, so that as we go on from this channel, from this moment, and continue our daily lives, that we effortlessly recognize those paths well-worn and continue to recognize the divine peace always present within us. Let us understand there is nothing to return to, for we are already here.
Namaste to all seekers and teachers, blessed we all are.
Terima kasih 🙏
Beautiful explanation
Super.Bravo,bravo.
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I have been hearing this from Sarvapriyananda since 2008 but this explanation made it clear the three states.
The only person whom i know was able to remain seclusive of the body is Swamy Ramana.
But he is one known case and others like rishis and other great people is theory.
I now understand the theory. However how does one remain concisous in shushupta?
Isha Saduguru says all these terms dimension, consciousness etc. But i rarely met one isha follower who is able to raise to such conscious and felt atman or disconnected.
Even sadguru Sivananda Murthy dvelved in real world consciously. I mean to say these powerful people gave up certain responsibilities but to say they saw or felt atman is hard to comprehend
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IMHO, with due respects to Swamiji, I think deep sleep is not the same as "gazing into pure darkness" ( 11: 10 ). In deep sleep I am not even aware of any darkness around me. I simply am not aware of anything. The analogy of the Man watching through the window of the house lost its sanctity the moment the man was removed from the scene. Initially it was stated that the man was observing the room and suddenly in the end it was stated that the lamp was the conscious observer. That destroyed the analogy.
This helps me understand so much! I always thought it was nothing-ness that would be the true self, but this makes so much more sense with my experiences and beliefs! Advaita Vedanta never fails me 🙏 it seems my experiences and beliefs are always true to a degree, but Advaita Vedanta just pushes my perception to a slightly different form so that I can find true understanding.
Ufff.... Every one's life has HAPPY ending 😅.
If irriversible JOY state has not come, it means 'picture abhi baaki hain... '
Hello swamiji! I would like to offer a unique perspective on the last analogy of the lamp in the room while you stand on the outside of the room. I would disagree that the lamp in it of itself would represent consciousness. I would counter that the individual observing the room would represent consciousness. Lets use an attic as an analogy. The attic would represent the mind. The junk within the attic would represent the mental activity within the mind. You, the person entering the attic would of course represent consciousness as the conscious observer. Now in order for you, (consciousness), to perceive the junk in the attic (the mental activity of the mind), you need one more thing. You need the light within the attic to completely illuminate the contents within it in order for consciousness to perceive the mental activity. Therefore the consciousness would not be the light in itself, because light would be yet another object needed in order for consciousness to perceive other objects within the room. Now lets say you have searched around the attic and you have found the item you are looking for. As you leave you turn off the light in the attic. Now in this circumstance, neither you (consciousness) has ceased, nor has the junk in the attic (mind activity) suddenly vanished or stopped, the illumination of the attic has ceased, giving the illusion of either consciousness, the mind, or both as stopping when actually it would be a process separate from both; the illumination of the mind. As conscious subjects, we need light in order to observe objects. This would also reinforce unconsciousness, which if for example you dont have a bright enough lightbulb to completely illuminate the entirety of the contents of the mind, you may find yourself stumbling in the dark if you will, bumping into junk and missing what youre looking for; the true divine nature within. I hope you enjoyed this analogy, and i would greatly appreciate a response on whether you agree or not, because I think this adds another dimension to such a complex topic that can make it a bit easier to distinguish. Thank you again, swamiji for helping me out of samsara!
1. Consciousness is holding the same place in the universe what it holds in a dream.
2. A dream is imagined, seen and known by consciousness which is independent of the dream.
3. The universe is imagined, seen and known by consciousness which is independent of the universe.
Dreams are better example to describe life 👽
Okay so which one is it?
We are one with all that is? Or we are separate from the bananas? Or from that which we are aware of? I feel this is an extremely important distinction to make. It can get confusing sometimes. Thank you. Love your content.
Yes,in the begining we can say that we are separate from everything we are consiousennces of-thoughts,emotions and senzations(perceptions).But later on we understend there is only one reality,not two(a-dvaita).That means,only ocean(self,atman,consciousnnes) exist and waves(thoughts,emotions,senzations) is just the part of ocean,more precizion is the ocean itself.Isn't is so?So ,Atman(you,your real nature) is like light,Atman is the ground(supstance)of all exspiriances ,and all the expiriances(thoug.,emotio.,senzat
)is lake apiriances(nothing more)in your consciousness.All of that is you!!!!!!!!!Like waves in oceans!!!Waves are what?Oceans,offcourse.So,everything you see is you!You in the form of thoughts,or emotions,or senzations(hearing,seeing etc).But you reman silant,like light,peacefull.Hope,this will help you.☺
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Sir how can I find this in hindi ,pls guide 🙏🏽
Please relation between consciousness and mind why mind arises
But it does not feel like i am aware in deep sleep. After i fall asleep i may experience several dreams but im not aware of the periods of deep sleep between rem cycles.
When Swami says : "we can relax and enjoy each scene as it unfolds.."
aren't relaxation and enjoyment mind processes? Whatever experience is mind and body.
Could anyone explain this please? 🙏
Advaita Vedanta alone should be enough for someone to loose their ignorance.
Can swami explain why there is only one consciousness? Why every one share same consciousness? Many thanks!
What about compassion? Is there room for this spiritual virtue in Vedanta? Not sure how compassion fits into the distinction between Atma or true self and the "mind" which experiences emotions and feelings. Since compassion literally means "suffering with" the other, I am not sure about this.
When you are free from the ego and the illusion of "me me me" and "mine mine mine" compassion for all is there, not as a dualistic emotion in which a supposed "George or Exstazius" have compassion for a supposed "David" (just using names) but in a profound non egoic (and not in a subject-object or subject - subject way of looking at things) way.
@@exstazius Namaste!
Realization of Atman is immersion in transcendental impersonal Love, about which in Christianity it is very accurately said: God is Love.
But this movie is too damn realistic!
ANY "OTHER CAR" is not any other car and that's because seeing anyone else suffering makes me feel like I'M SUFFERING. Any explanation for this? I'm 3 minutes in so far....
subtitles?????????
Why are dreams so strange or as you say alike cience fiction??? You recall that in deep sleep consciousness is at its pure state and aware as the mind shuts off, in other words deep sleep is only possible in the absence of mind, however we don't remember experiencing deep sleep, as if it was cut from the experience, in other words, as some would say is a non-existing moment, there is no TIME-SPACE and this is why when you go to deep sleep it goes so fast at night.... Why can't we experience deep sleep if the consciousness is aware?????
but you kinda do? if you wake up from deep sleep you still can say that you didn't have a dream and were in deep sleep, therefore were conscious
Why can’t consciousness be found in the brain somewhere? Why must it be separate from the body in order to observe the body?
It's like when you stand outside yourself (metaphorically) to observe your self (your behavior or thoughts.)
As long you remain stuck in the differed notion of a finite self you are hopelessly very far from knowing your true nature and the falsity of the universe.
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I am aware of suffering, but there is no suffering in awareness.
There is always suffering in awareness; Consciousness allows one to not identify with the pain. It is acknowledged yet not absorbed.
@@kirstinstrand6292 Not in awareness per se, i am aware of suffering as it relates to body and mind but awareness underlies the body and mind and is therefore aloof by being harmed in any way.
what if suffering isnt evil? but a way of saying you can do more
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