Shankara & Advaita Vedanta
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2021
- The much requested video about Shankara is finally here.
Sources/Suggeested Reading:
Deutsch, Eliot (1973). “Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction”. University of Hawai’i Press.
Deutsch, Eliot & Rohit Dalvi (2005). “Essential Vedanta: A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta”. World Wisdoms Books.
Suthren Hirst, J.G. (2005). “Samkara’s Advaita Vedanta: a way of teaching”. Routledge.
“The Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada’s Karika and Sankara’s Commentary”. Translated by Swami Nikhilananda. 1987. Advaita Ashrama.
“Brahma Sutra Bhasya of Sankaracarya”. Translated by Swami Gambhirananda.1972. Advaita Ashrama.
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Advaita Vedanta is the outcome of the realised soul or enlightenment. It is not an ideology as any ideology by its nature is dualistic. Although an attempt is made to explain the paradigm.
If u are making this big videos/documentaries make sure to put video chpts
Maya is misinterpreted as illusion.. It more accurately signifies illusory mapping of meaning. Insight of the illusory meaning making is process of removing of the veil of magic. Bit like NLP statement the map is not real
Sankaracharya had women students and debated women philosopher... Please redo this tutorial. If you require assistance reach out to me. Some Masters acknowledge and repeat that only master can truly know another master. Good attempt but makes me realise how easy it is to misinterpret & superimpose our understanding on to spirituality
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As an Indian man who speaks a few Indian languages, I’m very impressed by your pronunciations.
It’s very rare among westerners.
Good job and great video.
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I disagree. He's indeed good with Arabic phonemes and probably studied the language extensively, but his pronunciation of Sanskrit terms is nowhere near his Arabic. For example brahman is not pronounced braman but bramhan. etc. his -t-, -n-, -r- are also sounding way too European. that's being said I also appreciate his impartial and objective attitude he has explaining lots of different traditions and doctrines.
@@DanielJackson2010 his pronunciation is still a lot better than most westerners
'Brahman' caste and 'Brahman' are two different things. They are spelled same in English but the pronunciation is different in Sanskrit. Brahman caste is priestly caste whereas Brahman is the soul of everything, all pervasive and all that.
Caste is Brahmin and the ultimate soul is Brahman.
Hence some Sanskrit teachers spell the ultimate as "Bra-ch-man" where the "ch" sounds like "Chronology" - not something particularly spelled out in English I believe.
Brahmin is not a caste ,it's a varna . Caste is different from varna , in many cases the caste system does not adhere to the classic varna system
@@oliverqueen5095 yeah, people outside India wouldn't know 'Varna', caste just makes it easier to relate but the concept of caste and varna is little different
@@alfredpennyworth177 Brahmin is the English version of brahmana in sanskrit
I am from Kerala . My native place is Kaladi where Adi Shankaracharya was born. He rescued vaidika dharma from nastikas.
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IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ENLIGHTENING; IF ADI- SHANKRA HAD LAID EMPHASIS ON SOME COMPULSORY SCHEME OF LIFE & LIVING AS PROPOUNDED BY DIVINE ISLAM 🙏👏🌹😂
@Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana bcz buddhism was missionary religion , mlechas can be happy with it.
@@proudindian2768 nice cope lmaoo
@@dharmapalsharma2679 😂😂😂
@Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-anaIf hindu tradition was not spread how come we find evidence from so many south asian(minding that we were very much based on maritime trade) countries also african coastal areas and then you have ramayan in so many other cultures too and many of the other stuff.
Wow - that was a lot of material presented in a short time there. It strikes me that the unity of all things is undeniable on a subatomic level. Amazing that a person could have come to this realization so long ago.
More remarkably it locates that unity in the subject and not the object.
Yes, even in Samkhya philosophy it believes in the 3 energies that make up everything.
Just as brahma the creator sleeps as he has done his job.
Vishnu is compassionate and protects us
Shiva will take action and destroy the world and other demons.
In samkhya 3 energies make up all matter
The world starts with matter and conscience. These 2 combine to create life. When life is formed, ego and intellect are created. Along with the atman these form everything.
Now relating to my earlier points about the Trimurti,
The three energies are
Sattvic - compassion, kindness - good - positive
Tamsic -lethargy, laziness - bad - negative
Rajas - movement, action - good or bad - neutral
These are represented by the Trimurti and now we have discovered the atom with the three components electrons neutrons and protons
Another weird thing that is in Hinduism is the evolution theory
This is shown by the dashavatar of Vishnu
Matsya - fish- aquatic life
Kurma - turtle - amphibian
Varaha - the boar - basic life on earth
Narasimha - half lion half man - transition from animal to man
Vamana - the dwarf - the basic man who is not evolved
Parshurama - the Hunter- the basic Hunter gatherer
Rama - the man who has basic thoughts
Krishna - the man who has complex thoughts
Buddha - the enlightened man who has perfect thoughts
Kalki - the pinnacle of mankind
You can clearly see a sort of evolution from aquatic life to land life and eventually to human life
All I can say is that the Hindu philosophers were very advanced
Indic civilisations hit the ground running thousands of years ago!!!
The same is said by "quantum field theory"
All creation is a single field of energy called "quantum field", and all matter is just concentration of energy.
Shankara said the same about Brahman.
Only difference is that Brahman itself is conscious. But quantum field isn't conscious.
@@chandlerhbk08 if the quantum field were conscious ... then we have pan-psychism ..it's a theory being put forward by some leading thinkers about consciousness in the west.
Also I don't think there can ever be a 'Turing test' equivalent for consciousness.. we will never be able to objectively differentiate between a conscious agent and bio mechanical machine ... because consciousness is a first person experience ...I can never determine if my dog is conscious ...if I felt it was conscious ..then how far do I extend it ...how about cockroaches or bacteria or plants ... some people take it all the way down to QF.
Alternative take ..Brahman is Sat Chit Ananda .... ( existence, awareness, bliss) ..so all objects can borrow one or more of it from Brahman.... at the very least all of physical matter , even if they are not conscious ...they exist ..they don't exist permanently ( in that they had a beginning and will have an end) ..but rather borrow their existence from Brahman ... in this case Brahman is clearly Quantum Field per the standard model
Advaita vedanta is the best philosophical tradition and the bhgavad gita is the best holy text i have ever read .nothing even comes close to it.
Try Ashtavakra Gita
@@dr.harshitjain6410 ya i really thought about that one
@@virat8247 no Vedanta is much more philosophical than the vedas
@@byron-ih2ge it's just 298 verses and you can finish it up in 1 hour and if you understand Hindi I can share you link of one of the most beautiful discourse of it to you
@@dr.harshitjain6410 btw arent u jain?😅i have question for you why didnt jainism become successful like its brothers buddhism and hinduism?
Adi Shankaracharya had immense foresight. The way he created the four Mathas all those years ago . India has seen so much distortion on both East n West ends yet our Mathas are within.
It’s sad how many western theologians will never take the time to figure out how to properly pronounce Sanskrit terms. Thank you for your pronunciation, it shows great respect for what you’re discussing.
Do Indian theologians have to learn to pronounce Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin terms "properly"?
@@MythologosDo we even learn about it boi?
These are useless details. Don't beat around the bush, try to understand the messages and use them in your life.
@@LOGICALGUY-jm5fuQuite true. Ignorance is not limited to a particular group. All of us can learn from each other.
@@MrPeaceGuy54 Well ,you are right.
Idk much about advaita vendanta, but i do know that the experience of consciousness is available to all of us, including the peace and happiness it “brings” with it.
So you just described it
J u a n
Beauty of land of Indian Subcontinent..So many religions and school of thoughts came from this region and fascinating to see many schools of thought and no one claims that they have monopoly of truth..
No. Generally speaking, every Indian philosophical school claimed its monopoly on truth and considered rival schools to be wrong. That's why a philosophical war was going on for thousands of years. Every school tried to refute tenets of the rival schools and adress the issues raised against it by the rival schools. That intellectual war enriched Indian philosophy.
Indians were so Philosophically matured that the intellectual conflict was never escalated to a physical one.
"The only way to avoid physical conflict is to avoid claiming the monopoly on truth" - is not an Indian thought.
Every time in every debate Advaita wins.
Monopoly over truth huh... Advaita is truth.
@@HinduPhoenix I thought Brahman was truth.
@@surya_11 may be a philosophical war but not mortal combat. For instance Jainism and Buddhism differed from Hinduism in their rejection of Vedas, yet they were tolerated.
@@muazzamshaikh2049 I don't discuss about Indian philosophy with someone whose ancestors burnt Nalanda, Vikramshila, Odantapuri and many more.
There was a time in India when bhuddism was flourishing and gained popularity. People were becoming bhuddists because they resonated with the idea. Then Came our debate master Shankaracharya who beat every bhuddist scholar in the debate of matter and particle and regained Hinduism in india. I'm not a hater of bhuddism here. I respect the bhuddist principals as much as i respect hindiusm because our end goal is same. We all are Dharmics.
Or that brahmins prosecuted budhhists and destroyed their temples. Check that out in history but of course history is western chrislamomarxist hinduphobic propaganda.
@@Aman-qr6wi facts! Brahmins and bhuddists always engage in debates not in war. Bhuddists "claims" to advocate on rationalism. So where are evidence of brahmins persecuting bhuddists? Zero. I'm a proud dharmic from SC community.
@@Aman-qr6wi look, my friend! Yes, history is majorly written through the lens of various Marxist and euro centric. But we should always base our claims on facts atleast. The decline of bhuddism started with turkic islamic invasions from Afghanistan. Then the rise of Advaita vedanta and Bhakti movement. Brahmins and bhuddists existed in harmony. Didn't expected such foolish people from dhruv rathee and Marxists viewers.
@@Aman-qr6wi all temples are still present of Buddhist time
@@bhaveshtochabbra6853 how dhruv rathee came into picture here. I have only seen him respecting advaita vedanta teachings and it's preachers like swami vivekanand. Kindly provide source for your claims.
This became a central part of my worldview back in the 1970s while studying eastern philosophy around the time of a spontaneous, nearly instantaneous kundalini awakening. I've come to understand it all in my own language, more reflective of a modern technical framework, but the core principals are the same. That said, it's not the understanding that matters, but the actualization of everything as an expression of the same one consciousness. Excellent presentation.
For anything to be what it is, it has to be not everything else. There has to be separation, thus multiplicity. With one separation, we have duality; an expression of the one[ness], but yet an illusion in that oneness is whole and not separated. Duality presents itself as dichotomies such as: chaos/order, analog/digital, female/male, being/doing (existence/experience), General Relativity/Quantum Mechanics, yin/yang, art/science, etc. With two separations, we get trinity, like: amps/ohms/volts, Father/Son/spirit, body/mind/spirit, form/color/texture, height/width/depth, etc. At the level of quadrality are the four primary aspects of being human; physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. This all creates a hierarchy with unity at the top and multiplicity at the base. Now, this is all just a mental construct that I've made up, and gives me a tool for making sense of my experiences, but is not ultimately real. Only the one/oneness that transcends all separation is truly real, unchanging, permanent; the source of all we can ever experience.
Advaita Vedanta existed ever since the Vedas existed. It was shankara who gave popularity. The 4 mahavakyas from 4 different Vedas in the upanishad sections define advaita Vedanta.
@Store Patternator Who told you bullshit astvakra geeta exists before the Vedas. Communists propaganda?
@Store Patternator Swami vivekanada didn't understand hinduism properly. He didn't understand Vedas. He was propagated by invaders to create many fake mutts in hinduism as divide and rule policy where they cocked up many fake stories like fake Brahmacharya of holding semen etc.
@@user-io7sh7nx7c that is advaitic interpretation, see vaishnava acharyas commentary.
@@hsram1985 celibacy was a common practice in India, by your logic even saints and brahmcharis like Hanuman was influenced by British 😂😂 .Vivekanand rejected all forms of caste etc and he wanted to unite all Hindus, i don't think any British would've liked that .
@@pritsingh9766 this sriram hegde is a vaishnav
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Excited to see you possibly cover the vedic and Eastern traditions more and more!
Jai Shankara- very informative and well-narrated, thank you. With respect from an Afghan.
I just want to ask this. Are you folks allowed to read Hindu philosophy because you call it kafir right? I'm just asking and I don't want to disrespect you. Thanks!
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Wonderful presentation. Thoughtful and very well organized. A mention of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda might have been useful as they did much to bring Vedanta to the west starting around 1880.
Yeah, until vivekananda came into picture vedanta philosophy was more or less forgotten
For such a young guy, you understand these concepts very well.
He knows them better than a lot of old people too. In fact, I've known a lot of old dolts in my life.
I think the assumption that age is proportional to understanding is far too common. Shankara wrote his works before dying at 32, Yeshua bar Yosef at 33, Siddhartha Gautama reached enlightenment at around 35. And this is not limited to religion, but science, philosophy, and the arts people made great works in their 20s & 30s.
I, for one, was very interested in reading as many sacred texts as I could from about 15 years old. Of course as time has passed, my understanding has grown-as there has been more time to read and a larger sum total of experiences to draw from. So, I'm not saying that it's senseless to relate age and wisdom. But, conversely, the young are more plastic and able to make sense of ideas which are unfamiliar to them, while the old are more rigid and tend to stick with what they know. So, we shouldn't completely tie the concepts together.
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@@RubelliteFae Can you give me some teaching to help my friends, relatives and myself understand the essence of understanding our dharma when without it we are running our life in relative peace what value could it bring
They say why should we read holy books, there are abundant of books available already
and why should we believe in god
and their myths, when we have much more deep and grown characters/heroes and their intriguing stories and lessons
Answer me if you could please
@@surendrakshetri2105 I tried many times to write a response, but it would be very long. If you seek knowledge, you should read Upanishads.
For now I can say that, depending on one's stage in life and how fervently one pursues them, artha & kāma can be dharmic pursuits. That which is dharmic is not the same for all people in all time in all stages of life.
Beyond that, the people you seek to help may not be ready to receive that kind of help. For example, if a student graduates 2nd grade and you try to help him by next year putting him in 10th grade, then he will fail to grasp most of the upper level concepts because the previous years of info were bypassed and the student wasn't ready. The intended help becomes harm and might make the student feel like he shouldn't bother trying to learn.
Focus on understanding the self and answers for how to help others will come as required. My path has been jñāna, thus reading and self-reflecting has been the most useful and actionable for me. Other dharmic mārga are available and work better for others. So, just because I say at the top, "you should read Upanishads" doesn't mean that's the best for you, but that it helped me-I cannot advise too far outside of my own experiences.
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@@LetsTalkReligion, at the risk of sounding presumptuous, I clicked the "dislike" button before even watching the video, because I was quite certain that your "take" on Advaita Vedanta would contain a plethora of flaws. And I was fully-justified in doing so, it seems, since from early-on in the video you began making statements which were quite obviously incorrect (Advaita Vedanta clearly originated in the Vedas themselves - just read the Upanishads).
Thank you for spreading this sort of knowledge, and thank you for all those hours you must have spent studying all of these topics!
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Would you consider doing a video on Ramanuja and his school at some point? He’s less known than Shankara but I found his insights more intuitive, easier to grasp, and resonated more with me personally. Thanks for your consideration and great work on this video as always.Edit: I spoke too soon, glad to hear you say at the end of the vid that you are going to cover Ramanuja in an upcoming episode.
He did the video
@@airconditioning4290 Yes, glad he did!
@@thorin68 Ne one on Ramakrishna .
Everytime I watch one of your videos, I LEARN....
You are a great scholar and a sincere seeker 🙏🏼
If we need to practise Vedantic Meditation (a little different than Yogic Meditation), Swami Sarvapriyananda's any lecture on this topic is very helpful. There is profound clarity without any dogmatic nuances. The language and concept that he uses are so simple and straight that a teenager can also grasp. I wish I had acquired this concept during my teenage, I could have avoided lot of traumas and build a more universal and connected life. I thank you this channel also to give holistic history and understanding of this philosophy through this video . Namaste Sir !
Another great video full of information about a person from history I didn’t know of. Thanks
A student familiar with the specific "non-dual" and the "two-truths" doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism from the Madhyamaka (founded by Acharya Nagarjuna) and Yogacara (later known as Vijnanavada) schools will definitely recognize how close these Buddhist philosophies are with that of the Shankara's Advaita Vedanta. The only difference I could see probably is the former would 'objectify' the dependent-arisen 'selfless' nature of phenomena to arrive at the indiscriminate/undifferentiated 'consciousness" which realizes the ungraspable reality of "emptiness", while Sankhara would rather 'subjectify' such 'illusion of multiplicity" as ultimately, the same and not the second, the ultimate True Self or "Brahman". Mahayana Buddhism is about de-identifying all phenomena to impersonal reality, while Advaita Vedanta meta-identifies all to an all-but-singular reality/entity.
its actually same in my opinion
@@aditya-rt4zb Two sides of the same coin. Buddhistic śūnyatā (शून्यता) , something like emptiness and Vedantic pūrṇatā (पूर्णता), something like fulness. These terms are not easy to translate.
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 Its really hard, it is just manifestation. In my opinion, if 2 people really go completely to their extreme s (true extreme), they might result in the same place. (Actually i dont know much about it, but i have read some stuffs on internet and trying to bring my own thoughts.)
@@aditya-rt4zb Purnam and Shunyam are no manifestation. All manifestation is Maya. Purnam is Brahman, unmanifested. But all what is manifested comes from what is not manifested. Do you know "purnamadah purnamidam, purnaat purnamudachyate ...."?
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 nah!
Good introduction on this pearl of Hindu culture. A video on Ramanuja and more modern Advaita Vedanta teachers would be a must.
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels on YT. I've never come across a channel that goes in-depth, discussing some of the more abstract ideas from around the world. Kudos! You're like Kurtzgesagt of religion, except it is not in a nut shell.
Thanks for this fascinating and comprehensive discussion of a crucial Hindu thinker not very well known in the West.
You've just earned a new fan❤
Would love to see you talk on varna system and afterlife in Sanatan Dharma.🙏
The way some people use the comment section to engage in petty fights is beyond me.
HAVEN'T YOU LEARNED ANYTHING ?
That's such a stupid comment. CZcams is here for discussion, arguments, or whatever. It's not all about your opinion.
@@alukuhito Thank you, you just proved my point haha !
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Like children fighting about whose daddy is a bigger man :)
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I appreciate the way you have presented Advaita Vedanta
This is the second video I am seeing from this channel. First one was Sikhi video.
The presenter must be a scholar on these. He is providing wonderful videos, well researched and well presented.
Nirvana shatakam is a marvellous rendition by Adiguru Shankara himself and sums up the essence of Vedanta. It begins with 'Neti,Neti' ,not this ,not this and then at the last stanza, he conveys what Brahman is. It was rendered to music and sung by the doyen of Hindustani Music the late Pandit Jasraj.
Absolutely amazing video!!! Thank you very much for this:)
Well done, once again.
- an admiring socio-cultural anthropologist/ religious historian
Quite comprehensive. I am enjoying all your talks and getting to know about other religions.
Thanks, really nicely done. Looking forward to your future videos on Hindu Philosophy.
You are horrendously wrong when you said Sankara’s teachings are for “male” students of brahman “caste”. There are plenty of examples of Sankara’s own disciples who are woman (including Ubhaya Bharati) and of course the “brahman” mentiined here does not refer to a social caste.
Thank you! U saved me some precious time. Too many ppl cashing in on the popularity of Indic culture and religion without having done a fair bit of research, practice and contemplation. Wishing you well, Mitraji. 🙏🕉
There is also the issue if caste, as we know it today, was present in India
@@jamesstevenson7725 Hey mate, there was no caste system in India. Caste is a British construct; it was brought into India by the British. What they did was distort India's varna system to fit into their caste system.
India have the varna system: a person belonged to different varnas based on his learning, conduct or behavior, skills and occupation.
A person who spent most of his time learning the shastras, teaching or dedicating his life in the service of the divine was known as a Brahmin.
A person who dedicated his time to serving in the army, protecting the kingdom and learning martial arts was known as a Kshatriya.
A person who was into business and trading was a Vaishya.
A person carrying out scavenging and cleaning jobs was known as a Shudra.
These varnas were not a function of your birth. It was the outcome of your chosen occupation. People were free to move from one varna to another. A child born into a Shudra family was not condemned to live the life of a Shudra. The child could move into any varna by his/her own efforts to either educate themselves, train themselves, etc. Plenty of instances where Shudras ended up becoming Brahmins by their actions.
Hope you are now closer to becoming a Brahmin after my efforts to educate you. 🙏🕉
@@vedicwarriorOriginal Yeah, okay, BUT in fact people did not have all that much fluidity and it might be more instructive to point to the fact that "caste" systems, to use a word, existed all over the world and to admit that they still exist all over the world today. In the "way-back" kids often grew up to take up the profession of their father because people just didn't have access to large and diverse groups of people until the advent of cities (well over a thousand years after Shankara) and even then certain types went to cities to work but the world was still mostly rural. Opportunities to even go to school are a relatively new thing, literacy is a relatively new thing -- and I am talking all over the world -- and as life was hard and short there was always need for children to take over family enterprises -- as well as extended family. "Plenty of instances" is like saying "plenty" of children from rural China go to Harvard. It's not really plenty unless you consider a few "plenty" and honestly we do not know much about what ordinary people were doing throughout most of history. It wasn't until taxation that Kings or Governments started keeping track of ordinary people in order to provide us with historical records. All just to say you are over simplifying the situation just as the way we generally hear about the caste system overgeneralizes. The history gets distilled and organized and rewritten throughout the centuries and a lot of it is literally made up so it is important to take especially history from two thousand years ago with a grain of salt. I mean we are talking basically about when the Buddha lived and when Christ lived and it's all nearly pre-history.
I'd be interested to see your references about how the British created the caste system in India. Do you actually have references for that statement? My impression is the British completely ignored everything native to India, went there, lived in their British bubbles and left. Think about the fact that virtually no Indian spiritual texts were ever translated by the British. It's mind-boggling but it leads me to think they really didn't give a s**t what Indian people were doing unless it intersected with what they were doing there. But I'd love to see your references.
Just another perspective on what we really know to be absolute fact about the first century a.d. anywhere on earth.
@@garypuckettmuse Are you for real??? 😲🤷♂️ What is pre-history???
"Literacy is a relatively new thing"? Do you not know about ancient Indian scriptures and inscriptions in temples?
"The Brits completely ignored everything native to India"??? "No Indian spiritual texts were ever translated by the Brits"??? WTF are you on, mate? 🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
U've done no research and for that reason I am not even gonna bother answering your questions. Jesus H Christ!!! I'm outta here... goodbye! 👋
Dear brother,
An excellent presentation 🙏🙏🙏
Cannot thank enough.
Beautiful pronounciation and clarity.
As usual awesome. True to the content. Just a big WOW. Thank you.
Good introduction to Advaita Vedanta.
Thank you!
If you go and do as deep of a dive on Hinduism or religions of India as you have on Islam I would be so happy.
@Hindutva Maharana Hammirdeva i came out of deep depression because of the Qur'an. I never thought I would ever be able to beat depression after more than three years of hopelessness and despair and suicidal thoughts. I was truly reborn in every sense of the word. I have been living in so much peace ever since by the grace of God. God is one and it doesn't matter what you call him. If you're truly sincere he will guide you to the straight path.
6:122 He who was dead and whom We raised to life,88 and We set a light for him to walk among men - is he like the one steeped in darkness out of which he does not come out?
@Dk there is only one Qur'an. If you need a good translation check out the message of the Qur'an by mohammed assad. Cheers mate
@Hindutva Maharana Hammirdeva You are a bigot, as if you have got the agency of truth! A true seeker of knowledge is respectful to other views and are not dismissive of and showing derision to the belief held by more than a billion people! No doubt, people like you are the cause of communal riots in India!
@Hindutva Maharana Hammirdeva Hindutva is fascism. Narendra Modi is a fascist
@@AlfataAlfaet that is the standard narrative in the modern West but not true of history nor of many other places
Again you ignited a quest to hear all your videos ty a great service to us all.
@3.28, you reference that Shankara himself wrote things down himself. This is something I can respect against the teachings of say Jesus which are ALL written down by others many many years later. So when I debate Mormons who come knocking, when they say Jesus said this or Jesus said that, I always interrupt them with the words "Jesus is alleged to have said this or that". They always look bewildered. This always makes me happy.
Jesus is considered an avatar of lord vishnu. Tell them that😂
This is very childish.
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Several of my teachers are associated with Advaita Vedānta, though I have other affiliations as well. One of them wrote a book, Seven Systems of Indian Philosophy, including a final chapter on this school. In it, he teaches that there are stages of liberation in Advaita Vedānta that are encapsulated by different statements. At an early stage, the associated phrase (attributed to Śaṅkara) is "brahman satyam jagat mithya," "brahman is real/true, the world is false," meaning that the world is an illusion to be woken from. So, interpreting māyā as illusion may be fairly accurate in the context of Śaṅkara's work. A few stages later, however, the phrase is "sarvam khalvidam brahma," "all this is brahman," meaning that brahman is not separate from the manifest world. The ontology of Advaita Vedānta changes depending on the specific context and which point of view on brahman is being emphasized. This could be linked to Ramaṇa Mahārṣi's teaching about nirvikalpa samādhi (discarnate absorption) being a stage of liberation preceding sahaja samādhi (incarnate absorption). Viewing the world as illusion encourages people to renounce and turn inwards; viewing/knowing the world as an integral expression of divinity comes later on the path in this particular approach.
The Vedānta teachers I know are also connected to the Śrī Vidyā school of Śākta/Śaiva Tantra, which integrated with and was somewhat domesticated by Vedānta following the Mughal invasions. Classical Vedānta tends towards a much more renunciatory, world-denying approach than Tantra. It tends towards a concept of passive, transcendent, impersonal divinity, rather than the dynamic, immanent, agential divinity of Śākta/Śaiva Tantra. Those aforementioned teachers described personal saguṇa deities as brahman seen through the filter of māyā, meaning that they viewed the concept of an impersonal, nirguṇa brahman as representing a higher level of reality.
False is not the right meaning of mithya. Mithya means something that appears to be true but with time the veneer vanishes. According to his statement birth itself is not real.
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Mithya doesn't mean false it is like inconsistent sometimes it's truth.. Sometimes it's false
I enjoyed reading your comment.
I thought I would share two specific quotes from books associated with Sri Ramana Maharshi's teachings on this topic.
Sri Ramana: "It is said that Brahman is real, and world an illusion; again it is said that the whole universe is an image of Brahman. The question arises: how are these two statements to be reconciled? In the sadhak stage, you have got to say that the world is an illusion. There is no other way, because when a man forgets that he is the Brahman, who is real, permanent and omnipresent, and deludes himself into thinking that he is a body in the universe which is filled with bodies that are transitory, and labours under that delusion, you have got to remind him that the world is unreal and a delusion. Why? Because, his vision which has forgotten its own Self, is dwelling in the external material universe and will not turn inward to introspection unless you impress on him that all this external, material universe is unreal. When once he realises his own Self, and also that there is nothing other than his own Self, he will come to look upon the whole universe as Brahman. There is no universe without his Self. So long as a man does not see his own Self which is the origin of all, but looks only at the external world as real and permanent, you have to tell him that all this external universe is an illusion. You cannot help it. Take a paper. We see only the script, and nobody notices the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script on it is there or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal, an illusion, since it rests upon the paper. The wise man looks upon both the paper and script as one. So also with Brahman and the universe."
Source: Letters from Sri Ramana Ashrama
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An excerpt from the 'Talks with Sri Ramana':
Questioner: (Ramana) often says that Maya (illusion) and reality are the same. How can that be?
Sri Ramana: [Adi] Sankaracharya was criticised for his views on Maya without being [properly] understood. He said that: 1) Brahman is real, 2) The universe is unreal, and 3) The universe is Brahman. He did not stop at the second, because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self, and unreal if perceived apart from the Self. Hence Maya and Reality are one and the same.
Brahman Satyam Jagat Mithya
"It does not mean the world is an illusion or false. It means the world is Subjective. What we think Inside, See Outside."
-Swami Vivekananda
I am from Kerala. Shakaracharya was born in Kaladi that is near by.
So??
@@thephilosophermma8449 I am very familiar with his philosophy and life. This video reminded me of my research days. Shankarachrya was one of the characters in the novel I was writing then. Though he appears only in one chapter I did a lot of research about him those days. This video made me nostalgic about my travels to the places I went to learn about him.
@@denvorsden7903 Please don't forget for one of the research about he was a Buddhist monk and studied Buddha's teaching about 3 years.Also, he studied Buddhism from Kumara Lilabutta who was former Buddhist monk from Buddhist University. That why his teaching was influerenced by Buddhism. But I don't think so, Buddhism is a religion because it is very different from Hidisium.
@Johnny DeppZ While he was a monk and studied Buddhism about 3 years but he was kicked out from the monk community because he did not follow the law of monk. He was angry about that, and then he travelled to south India to nouth India. Moreover, he studied Buddhism from Kumara lalibhatta ( former monk). He did develoved Vidanta and challenced Buddhist monks by force according with the king's arthority. When he won the debates, he made the monks must convert Hindu religions. Moreover, he kills millions of monks. You should know your India's history. But your history teachers and hidu religious leaders don't want you to know.
@@wint7031 source?
I am absolutely fascinated. When describing the "I" you mention that we are all aware of listening to you speak. This is true but also I realize that it is not. Your consciousness speaking these words exists in a time before we are aware of it, and so you are the rope when in fact we hear the snake. And together through all time our clay is clay but in this moment it is molded into figures, figures that resemble many things but are just clay. I have learned nothing and enjoyed every second of doing so. Thank you!
Thanks so much. Your straightforward explanations are refreshing.
Thank you for your work! Much needed these days. The only thing I would like to add/correct is that Mimamsa is not the dominant flavour nor "what we know as Hinduism today". Several Hindus today do not identify themselves with Mimamsa, and while perhaps the debate culture is not that public, it exists with similar fervour in safe and mature settings where differences will not be taken for discrimination.
Wonderful presentation. I appreciate your work on this and other videos I've seen.
Sometimes I watch your videos in bed, as they help me fall asleep. I know that, as a creator, this is sometimes disheartening to hear, because you want your viewers to watch your videos because of how interesting they are, not because they make them sleepy. Although, in my case, I feel that the interesting nature of your (and some other creator’s) videos captures my attention and allows my mind to wander with wonders so that I drift freely off to sleep without me even realizing it. I’m trailing off here, BUT…
I say all this because this video did help me fall asleep last night, but it was so interesting that I’m back again in the daytime to listen again! Well done, sir!!
Nice video. How lucky I am yo be born in a land where these people are born. It's not the person but his teaching is divine.
This channel is gold
you are a gift. thank you fot this work
A very very good explanation of advaita vedanta. Love from India.
Thank u very much Sir... while listening to u I felt that I wd listen to u more and more...
I just saw that you uploadet this video and it made me so happy that you covered this ideology which is very prominent in vedic texts and from an academic point of view, i cant wait that you do a series on the Vaishnava cult religion.
I can’t tell cuz the pic is so small but is that a pic of chaitanya you’re using? It would not surprise me as you’ve expressed an interest in Vaishnavism.
Why do you call it as cult ?
@@vishnuvardhan3047 “cult” in this context just means “sect”. Not “cult” in the way the term is generally used to describe a dangerous religious movement with a charismatic leader. Same word, different meaning in different contexts.
@@Atomic419 - If you meant ‘sect’ over ‘cult’ why not use ‘sect’? Since you used ‘cult’, was there something else you wanted to say/imply that ‘cult’ delivers better than ‘sect’?
Also make video about Samkya Philosophy of Hinduism which influenced other Indian philosophies like Buddhism and Bagvad gita
The Atheism Of Buddhism and Buddha was Heavily influenced by Kapil Muni Of Samkhya. In fact Buddha learned Meditation under the Guidance of Samkhya Philosophers in Magadha.
00:02 Advaita Vedanta is a non-dualistic interpretation of the Vedas and Upanishads.
02:26 Shankara's biography is difficult to reconstruct
06:37 Shankara's life was eventful and accomplished despite his young age.
08:43 Bhakti was a significant movement during Shankara's time.
13:07 Shankara's Advaita Vedanta emphasizes on the concept of Brahman and its relation to the self and the world.
15:21 The true self is not the body or mind but identical to the absolute reality.
19:10 The illusory nature of the world and the concept of brahman
20:58 Shankara's goal is liberation from the cycle of rebirths.
24:44 Shankara's strict requirements for studying Advaita Vedanta
26:23 Shankara's relationship with religious worship is complex
30:04 Shankara affirms the non-dual nature of reality
31:54 All things made of clay are known by knowing a lump of clay
35:47 Brahman is the true reality
37:46 Realizing true self through breaking subject-object duality
41:48 Shankara's influence on Vedanta and Hinduism
43:38 Acknowledgment for patrons and support
A wonder full channel,im exploring each episode, thank you
This channel seems to have become quite monistic recently.
Yes all they care about is money!
@@The_Beast_666 That’s not what monistic means.
I was thinking the opposite!!
@@The_Beast_666 That's not what he/she meant; He/she meant this Monistic as in: a view that there is only one kind of ultimate substance; the view that reality is one unitary organic whole with no independent parts; a viewpoint or theory that reduces all phenomena to one principle - Merriam Webster Online
Spinoza next
If anyone who is interested in Advaita Vedānta philosophy, i would highly recommend the lectures of Swami Sarvapriyananda! He is the best! His video "Who am I?" Would be a great start for anyone who is interested in spirituality or Hinduism! It explains the core Concept of Vedas!
True...even the teachings of Ramana Maharishi and Ramkrishna Paramhans.
Very glad I found your channel. Appreciated!
Amazingly precise, descriptive understanding of Shankaracharya
Hinduism is fantastic tradition I love it
This guy was born in my hometown, Aluva.....Feel so lucky
Hope you have read his books /teachings... 🙏..
@@deepblue3682 I am a firm believer in Christ.I found his views interesting and so are the philosophies of Aristotle,Origen,Augustine of Hippo ,Thomas Aquinas.I was swayed by their philosophies more.
@@evanssamuelbiju4315 thats nice to know that you have at least read sankara's teachings being born in the same place/different time... good day to you😊🙏
@@deepblue3682 I wish you the same.🙏🙏🙏
@@deepblue3682 why do you think it’s necessary?
Thank you for this perception. What is striking abt this is that the gnostic scriptures basically say the same thing. There it is the plethora that is basically representing the same concept as Brahman. In the end it means we are all part of the oneness of creation, while representing creation itself individually. This complies with our modern day science perspective regarding the holographic principle -> anything being an emanation of everything.
Impressive details & descriptions about Shankaracharya... Great work...😊🙋♂️🙏
This was brilliant. Thank you Filip.
Thank you my friend!
@@LetsTalkReligion Please do a video of Hinduism in historical view.
Great to see you getting round to Shankara!
Now how about sinking your mind into the extraordinary Pushti Marg of Srimad Vallabhacharya. And the Bauls of Bengal and their Sufi counterparts the Auls. Great.
Om🙏🌸 I am glad to watch this video. I was amazed to see you talikng on this topic. Greatttt!!!! Thankss Man🙏🌸
Very well researched and presented. Thank you.🙏🏼
Fantastic video! I've taken a deep dive Advaita Vedanta over the past year and this video summarizes my findings perfectly including the dichotomy of Advaita and Bhakti that you mention. Thank you for sharing!!🙏
@Language and Programming Channelif it brings you to know Self then I'm happy for you. For me the consciousness or chit of Bhraman is actually Self-consciousness and the world is required to fulfill the expression of chit. Ishvara and creation are an expression of chit. Advaita Vedanta accounts for that.
@Language and Programming Channel The delivery of your unsolicited and unqualified opinion reveals ego and brings into question your ability to recognize truth.
Great video. Advaita understanding is so interesting and reading Sankara commentaries is bliss.
I wonder why didnt you mention the nature being attributed to brahman as - sat chitt anand - in vedas.
Also, what do you think about the Yoga sutra commentary by Sankara (if he actually made the comment)? The way he understand samadhi is quite rich and complementary.
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This is well explained video , thanks for great work bro ,keep posting
Extremely imformative,unbiased and thorough explanation, great work!
You hare Prabhuji, Hare Krishna Dandwat Pranam
Thank you for a wonderful learning! Please tell us the historical context of India at the time, the kings presiding, the kingdoms and the overall political climate and their role on Shankara or the other authors you will cover later. Thanks!
Amazing videos thank you so much for sharing!!
Excellent video on Advaita Vedanta. A suggestion for future videos: I am a professor of anthropology (archaeology) and frequently team teach courses with colleagues from other disciplines on intellectual cultural histories and, in my case, the manifestations that can be identified in material and built cultural forms. Our students are university-educated, and so of course they are steeped in "rationalist" modes of analysis and understanding. When teaching religious histories, I find that I have to spend a lot of time explaining the practices, functions, and efficacy of basic "non-rationalist" expressions/practices such as ritual, puja, sacrifice, and bhakti before I can move on to the core of the course which is intellectual history and its development over time and in specific cultural social and political contexts. Without spending considerable time on these very basic concepts of religious expression and practice, my colleagues and I find that many students never are able to fully grasp the anthropological concepts of the course. I am sure this also applies to many of your followers. This is merely a very long way of saying that it would be useful if you were to devote a video to the practice of ritual (and perhaps sacrifice), another to devotional bhakti (and perhaps puja) explaining how these practices (and other practices related to communication/union with the godhead and "skillful means" towards gaining enlightenment) are understood as to purpose, performance, and function -- as well as their various historical critiques -- across religious/cultural traditions.
When kids play with toy, they forget themselves. Similar is the reason.
He needs to do research on agama shastra !
@@vishnuvardhan3047 Having a direction can be valuable.
Excellent presentation. My thoughts reflect between the discipline of mathematics and the cultural, historic and personal elements of a human life. These themes are religious and mathematical at the same time, a great analogy existing between them which is very pronounced in the present world.
Scientists seek a theory of Union with the fervor and devotion to truth of an ascetic yogi. The Theory of Everything which is always elusive is advaita, non-duality, is the _belief_ or hypothesis that all phenomena can be traced to a single set of equations which will theoretically explain every objective interaction, all phenomena. It is fitting therefore that the word "theory" has roots in theos+aria, 'a space for viewing God'. The theories of atheists! Quite humorous really.
At the level of objective details I appreciate your information on Sankara's realism. The idea of superimposition, the snake on a rope, is suggestive of the physical idea of wave motion and the superposition of pure frequency waves to make complex actual waves in nature. Quantum physics relies almost entirely upon the principle of superposition of states.
The analysis of complex waves into their components is reciprocated by the reverse process of composing complex waves from simple frquencies. So rather than some philosphical goal of seeing the parts as one whole, or understanding the whole as a composition of parts, both sides are applied to the understanding and manipulation of physical phenomena which is very far reaching.
These mathematical processes, which are taught as Fourier and Laplace Transforms, are examples of linear systems, which means that their solutions can be scaled and added to another to produce each other. It is a kind of simple arithmetic using complex structures.
In all kinds of abstract systems like these, the central methods produce tranformations by use of "identity" and reciprocation. An identity is produced by the combination of an object with its inverse expression, or reciprocal. In advaitist language, one might say, by applying "neti, neti", I am not that, not that, not that either-- this is an inverse applied to anything may lead back to "tat tvam asi", Thou Art That. Self-identification.
This train of thought is becoming more familiar to me. But listening to your talk it has occurred to me that there is a further intriguing detail in this analogy of advaita to mathematics and physics. Where Sankara insisted upon texts. Scriptures. The Vedas. It is possible that he was not speaking in a fundamentalist vein of thought about holy writings. Is it not possible that he was referring analogically to the process of linear algebra? in which the object being studied is transformed by other objects and identified with itself by a textual tableau, a matrix of component elements comprising the whole, the unit.
In that case the idea of referring to texts may be as simple as a description of how to use matrix combinations to understand ourselves in the world.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Sankara somehow knew modern linear algebra, not at all. It is just the exploration of these parallels which point to common ground that belongs neither to religion nor to science as exclusive domains, but to a bedrock of experience which monks, scientists, and everyone else, ultimately all rest upon.
Namaste
Actually we put a binary when we call brahman as saguna and nirguna, in my opinion instead brahman is brahman and can be expressed in any any form say saguna, nirguna or both at the same time.
* expressed
We do make this into a false dichotomy as we do with all things. We live in a world in which we experience distinctions, so it is only natural. If we want to understand the incomprehensible, or to discuss the ineffable, then we must use metaphor. Even words themselves are metaphors; they are not the things themselves, but symbols which represent them. We live in illusion, so we must use lies to understand Truth.
Thus, it can be useful to understand the unfolding of māyā as beginning with Nirguṇa Brahman, of which we cannot conceive and words cannot point, which is the true nature of all things; then to Saguṇa Brahman, which can begin to be described because description itself is part of māyā; then to the myriad things starting from the greatest and ending in the least (as considered from our illusory conceptualization).
Yes agree with you Brahman can express in both forms Saguna and or also Nirguna . We shall have one at the cost of other.
Real brahman is nirguna and saguna upasana is for purifying mind and increase concentration
@@akshays949 Yes Saguna is medium to reach ultimate reality.
Fascinating video, thank you.
These are the greatest objective enquiry made by man w.r.t the nature of the supernatural...
I'm currently pursuing Advaita Vedanta as a spiritual practice. I think you give a good summary here.
As to why Shankara might speak of devotion, as well as being the self alone, this quote from him my teacher told me about might be relevant.
"O Siva, from the standpoint of the body I am your servant; O Three-Eyed One, from the standpoint of the jéva, I am a part of you; O Self, from the standpoint of the self, I am you alone. Indeed, this is my knowledge, firmly concluded by all the scriptures."
Beautifully said! Body is the servant while soul is a part, but the realized self puts one in the place of the supreme soul
*The Gnostic Gospels are very similar with Advaita Vedānta philosophy.*
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Ah I forgot, never go to western CZcams interpreters to seek something. They will have a lot of bias from the the way they are brought up in the society, they will never understand the true meaning.
Yes you can get a superficial Ideas from these channels but all the subtle ideas will get muddled / no fault of the presenter as it require a life long commitment.
Always go to real life long practitioners (some are on CZcams! eg Tadatmananda & Sarvapriyananda) to get the real meaning.
The movement this guy implied Shankara did not understand Buddhism properly alarm bells went off, because to even start a debate Shankara will have to do 'purvapaksha', that is he has to explain the Buddhist point of view to Buddhists to make sure he understood it. only after purvapaksha was validated by other side the debate will even start. Then no Buddhist monk could ever win a debate against shankara and actually, it was not the pointless debates like we have now, those Buddhist monks and masters understood where they went wrong and accepted shankara as their guru, that's why in present day India Buddhists are very rare.
Great presentation it is the basis of the school of philosophy in London and around the world
Really impressed with your fluency
Although the Varna system from ancient Hindu societry is not same as present day birth based Caste system,
the assertion at "24:50" that Adi Sankara said only brahmin males can seek realization (thru Advaita) is incorrect. There is no proof of it from original sources.
Not sure what is your source. This angle could have been injected by colonial era translators who were infact mostly missionaries with other objectives (e.g. Max Muller)
Proofs on the contrary..
1. Here is what he said in Manisha Panchakam.
"brahmaivAham idam jagacca sakalam cinmAtravistAritam
sarvam caitad avidyayA triguNayA’sheSham mayA kalpitam
ittham yasya dRiDhA matiH sukhatare nitye pare nirmale
cANDAlo’stu sa tu dvijo’stu gururityeShA manIShA mama"
"I am Brahman (pure consciousness). It is pure
consciousness that appears as this universe. All this is only
something conjured up by me because of avidya (nescience)
which is composed of the three gunas (sattva, rajas and
tamas)." One who has attained this definite realization about
Brahman which is bliss itself, eternal, supreme and pure,
be he a Chandala or be he a Brahmana, such a one is indeed worthy of being a Guru. This is my firm conviction
2. He chose Mandana Misra's wife as judge in the famous debate between Him (representing Advaita) and Mandana Misra (Budhist Scholar).
3. On more than one occassion in his commentaries he cited "satyakama" incident from chandogya upanishad to assert anyone can be initiated as Brahmin to seek the realization and only qualification to be a Brahmin (realized one) is Unity, Equality and Truth.
This was cool! I imagine if everyone over the world applies this decorum of Hinduism, debating and influencing each other's knowledge rather than killing disbelievers and having ego that only " WE ARE RIGHT" .
This clearly unfolds that what is the difference between seekers and beleivers.
Intellect/ mind produces duality. Being thoughtless is the goal.
Great, great video. Quite interesting. I don't regard the Gita as a strictly bhakti text, however. In fact, bhakti yoga is one of three paths that Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna (along with karma yoga and jnana yoga.) Just my opinion. But, as I've said, you've created a great video here and I look forward to watching more of them from your channel. You are highly knowledgeable with regard to religion. You have earned my subscription. Thank you.👍
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They only see other Molecules."
_~Ken Wilber_
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Great job! Such a clear, brilliant presentation, everything to the point. Thank you!