Why Can't I See Through Another Mind? | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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- Swami Sarvapriyananda explains why we can't see through other minds even though we are the all-pervading atman. This video is part of a Q&A from Feb 25, 2018.
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We are all NPCs in the great video game. Each thinking, feeling and behaving as if we know what our fate is, but the truth is there is a greater awareness that we as yet can't comprehend.
Listening to you is blessings ❤
Such a clear and precise explanation that brought many points of clarity for me! Thank you so much Swami Sarvapriyananda!
Very very nice and clear. Thanks you.
Listening to swami's talks one by one. Words are not sufficient to express my gratitude to those who do the immense service of uploading these videos. We must preserve Swamiji. He is a treasure to the entire humanity. Om tat sat.
This is really a good question !!
Brilliant
Pranam swamiji. Blessed to understand the purpose of this life through your divine talks.Jai Ma🙏 Jai Ramakrishna! 🙏Jai Swamiji!🙏
This was a long ago question I was asking. Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Blessings, such a joy to listen to you teach. Thanks and Blessings
Just Precise and to the Point,Salut and my prayer to thakur!
what a simple explanation , such clarity
Pranam Swamiji🙏🙏🙏
What a clarity 👌👍
Thank you Swamiji 🙏
Every individual mind has wrapped itself with a thick and dark fence of Avidya. Two bubbles cannot break into each other and become one.
There are stories of peoples minds connecting when they take high doses of psychedelics together, so I don't know about that.
Swami ji nailed it.
I have been struggling with this question eversince I lost my son 2 years ago... I wonder, what must have been his last thoughts, was he scared, was he at peace, was he upset with me for not being able to do anything to save him, could he sense my helplessness, could he sense his death approach, did he resign to his impending end.... And many more such questions... Today Swamiji has put an intellectual end to my questions... I have to now make peace with the fact that I will never know...
Swamiji, thank you for providing me closure on this front...🙏🙏
Very sorry to hear, I hope you are feeling better now. God bless
@@CSKurup-di4ee thank you for checking on me. I am improving...
Thank you Swamiji! 🙏
Wow!! So deep!!!
Last line explains everything.
Knowing what is actually there in its pure and true form appearing and experienced as Drashta Drisya diversities is Vidya. And that knowledge will culminate in Consciousness.
Great question
Thank you, sir
Omg.. Thank you so much!
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you SwamiJ
great!
It is simply SSL. Secured Socket Layet on the metaphysical network.
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जय रामकृष्ण ।
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I just want to emphasis on the fact that even the so-called "awareness" is yet another "word" in the "language" which is the medium of mind/thinking (without language as a set of symbols thinking is impossible) that is also anthropocentric and a concept "in mind". Advaita quite literally means non-dual, so, at the risk of being overly anthropocentric, as Brahman and its ineffable mystery cannot ever be rationalised, I would say that, from the so-called "point of view" of Brahman (which is not even a "view" limited to an individual mind, hence cannot be even called a "view") there is NO duality happening as we see and experience them.
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In other words, and in response to your question: "is there even the possibility of awareness itself asking the question?"
I would say that first of all, "awareness" IS NOT an individual to begin with, yet the important point here is that when we are saying it's not an individual it does not mean it CANNOT or is not able to manifest or be an individual either. Brahman as in the practice of "Neti Neti" cannot be thought of, rationalised or even imagined. One cannot even point towards Brahman and attribute a quality or quantity to it; so the very act of differentiating between awareness and mind itself is not real, is not true at all.
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Moreover, following the same understanding, the notions such as "possibility" or "impossibility" are also absurd and meaningless here. Again in other words, it can be said that "the ineffable absolute reality" can mysteriously be manifested/appear as individuals (which we are); and yet also stand beyond the limitations of individualities and mental/linguistic concepts. That is the exact same meaning of the "Nature of God" being transcendent from all phenomenons and yet ineffably also immanent in all those very phenomenons. Absolute Reality could very well manifest or appear as totally different universe with totally different sets of rules, forms, qualities and with different unimaginable forms of individuals. Is not it even absurd to think that for the absolute reality that is manifesting all this universes and phenomenons (maya) questioning is an impossibility? IT IS OUR MIND who is trying to always rationalise these philosophical notions to make sense of what it can digest and understand, but it does not mean that the Absolute Reality is also limited to our thoughts of it!
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And finally if we must, it could be said that, the Avatars or the absolute perfect manifestations of the the non-dual ineffable Brahman are the ones who (to our mind) are able to think, act and function with mind (although an absolute perfection of a mind); however, again we should not forget that all of these distinctions and differentiations are nothing but the play of mind simply because mind cannot make sense of THAT which is beyond mind and hence can only rely on speculations and play of words to try in vain explaining THAT which is impossible to explain; expressing THAT which is impossible to being expressed. After all, all of these manifestations are nothing but Brahman itself that is ineffably/mysteriously appearing as many... Hope it helps. ~peace
Very well said! Brahman can never be explained, not even by itself lol.
In our dream, only our mind exists. In reality, only the Universal Mind exists. In the dream, everything is our own mind, although this is false for the dream subject. In reality, everything is the Universal Mind and It alone, although this seems false to us.
Great explanation by swamiji🙏🙏.
However the last point, who asks the question, awareness or the mind..
is there even the possibility of awareness itself asking the question??
When you are aware you wont ask questions. You just understand the reality, you cant think and ask questions without mind if you are only awareness without the mind 🙂
@@ramprakash6545 Awareness in the sense Existence or Brahman
@@prasvasu4217 awareness and mind are not two different I feel
I just want to emphasis on the fact that even the so-called "awareness" is yet another "word" in the "language" which is the medium of mind/thinking (without language as a set of symbols thinking is impossible) that is also anthropocentric and a concept "in mind". Advaita quite literally means non-dual, so, at the risk of being overly anthropocentric, as Brahman and its ineffable mystery cannot ever be rationalised, I would say that, from the so-called "point of view" of Brahman (which is not even a "view" limited to an individual mind, hence cannot be even called a "view") there is NO duality happening as we see and experience them.
.......
In other words, and in response to your question: "is there even the possibility of awareness itself asking the question?"
I would say that first of all, "awareness" IS NOT an individual to begin with, yet the important point here is that when we are saying it's not an individual it does not mean it CANNOT or is not able to manifest or be an individual either. Brahman as in the practice of "Neti Neti" cannot be thought of, rationalised or even imagined. One cannot even point towards Brahman and attribute a quality or quantity to it; so the very act of differentiating between awareness and mind itself is not real, is not true at all.
.......
Moreover, following the same understanding, the notions such as "possibility" or "impossibility" are also absurd and meaningless here. Again in other words, it can be said that "the ineffable absolute reality" can mysteriously be manifested/appear as individuals (which we are); and yet also stand beyond the limitations of individualities and mental/linguistic concepts. That is the exact same meaning of the "Nature of God" being transcendent from all phenomenons and yet ineffably also immanent in all those very phenomenons. Absolute Reality could very well manifest or appear as totally different universe with totally different sets of rules, forms, qualities and with different unimaginable forms of individuals. Is not it even absurd to think that for the absolute reality that is manifesting all this universes and phenomenons (maya) questioning is an impossibility? IT IS OUR MIND who is trying to always rationalise these philosophical notions to make sense of what it can digest and understand, but it does not mean that the Absolute Reality is also limited to our thoughts of it!
.......
And finally if we must, it could be said that, the Avatars or the absolute perfect manifestations of the the non-dual ineffable Brahman are the ones who (to our mind) are able to think, act and function with mind (although an absolute perfection of a mind); however, again we should not forget that all of these distinctions and differentiations are nothing but the play of mind simply because mind cannot make sense of THAT which is beyond mind and hence can only rely on speculations and play of words to try in vain explaining THAT which is impossible to explain; expressing THAT which is impossible to being expressed. After all, all of these manifestations are nothing but Brahman itself that is ineffably/mysteriously appearing as many... Hope it helps. ~peace
@@konnektlive Thank you so much for making the effort to answer to answer this question of this mind :) .. But going on a tangent here to follow up, this Brahman which is inexplicable inexpressable and beyond imagination is ultimately reflected in a pure heart/mind right?? Swamiji's last statement that this feeling 'YOU ARE THAT' in advaitic meditation is just the mind playing tricks.. But then this so called enlightenment or Sahaja stiti is again only a state of the mind right?? where does the Brahman come into question??
U me and many others are like bubbles in pond. God is pond
Is it possible psychic phenomenon is something like a bit of a leak-through in time? I had a really, really weird experience a few weeks back and the only thing I can think of is maybe it was a leak-through in time? That is a perception of feelings and knowledge from my own experience roughly 45 minutes in the future?
i would like to ear from you about RAJA YOGA which the mind isactually can be improved to do these thing the same way in the dream as you said it is possible to know that you are dreaming and enter a state of lucid dreaming whrer you can change the course of the dream as you like thank you
It is possible by the super conciousness but unfortunately not by us! If YOU become one to the GOD(Mukthi) then it might be possible for you(still as the GOD) but not as a finite being!
Yes it is possible to see through other minds. it's possible to know in very subtle way.
It depends on the charity of the mind and it's thoughts
Some people report that happening for a time after a Near Death Experience but it is usually a disturbing experience that people want to get rid of. Just think would you really want to know the content of everybody else's mind? Most of us have enough problem with our own!
all is the will of the supreme if necessary we don't have any choice
and for each and every problem solution is vedanta to know the supreme
The human personality is a combination of the.self and the non Self constituting the ego senses mind etc all that is non Self belongs to the domain of the own quality of gunas
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The nature of things discovered three primordial stuffs of forces known as Gunas the.three inseparable constituents of Prakriti or nature transform in to ego mind senses bodies and sense object as the primal creative energy itself a matter of force
Do not try for that perfection. I had achieved Sidhis. Latter I given back to God as I lost peace of mind. Because you will get to know other minds. You are not supposed to do anything. I sincerely suggest you to go to Shirdi and pray Baba
The biggest enemy is your knowledge. The more you know It, the more you
do not have it . Knowledge replace the true clarity. All knowledge is trash.All explanations are useless.All understandings are futile. Only true understanding happens when true clarity appears.True clarity comes when all knowledge fades. True understanding comes out of non-knowledge, but petty understanding comes with knowledge. True clarity comes out of non-knowledge but petty clarity comes through knowledge. Petty knowledge and petty understanding is food for mind but heart remain always thirsty. Quench the thirst of heart but not the greed of mind. Mind is greedy for knowledge , it makes its survival , it gives it safety , power, control , dominance ,satisfactions, relaxation,this in turn gives some good feeling and some happiness which is mistaken to true experience. These petty happiness and good feelings always leave pain behind.
Heart is thirsty of experience.Heart is not interested into knowing but having it , heart is not interested in observing of ocean but to dive into it. Heart is not the viewer or watcher but it is mirror where everything reflects. Heart is not interested in gaining or achieving . This is not an emotional heart which is extension of mind. The language of heart is neither win nor loss, neither happiness nor sadness , whatever comes in its way is its way. It does not know what is choosing, it does not know what is fear , it does not know what is knowing. The heart neither stops nor becomes tired . Do not seek experience but be it. So throw away the bags of burden and mountains of knowledge from your shoulders.
You do not have to travel thousands miles tough journey and crossing all oceans and mountains to reach at where you are standing now.
When you are healthy , you do not know your body .You do not know about your head until it gets headache. You do not know about your mind until it does not have thoughts.You only get to know about your ignorance but you will never know about the Truth.
There is nothing known that should to know. So approach the Unknown by being unknown.
Or go to Pittapuram to worship Sri Sripaadvallabha. All your dharmas came from Him. Go
Fod diya!!!
The biggest enemy is your knowledge. The more you know It, the more you
do not have it . Knowledge replace the true clarity. All knowledge is trash.All explanations are useless.All understandings are futile. Only true understanding happens when true clarity appears.True clarity comes when all knowledge fades. True understanding comes out of non-knowledge, but petty understanding comes with knowledge. True clarity comes out of non-knowledge but petty clarity comes through knowledge. Petty knowledge and petty understanding is food for mind but heart remain always thirsty. Quench the thirst of heart but not the greed of mind. Mind is greedy for knowledge , it makes its survival , it gives it safety , power, control , dominance ,satisfactions, relaxation,this in turn gives some good feeling and some happiness which is mistaken to true experience. These petty happiness and good feelings always leave pain behind.
Heart is thirsty of experience.Heart is not interested into knowing but having it , heart is not interested in observing of ocean but to dive into it. Heart is not the viewer or watcher but it is mirror where everything reflects. Heart is not interested in gaining or achieving . This is not an emotional heart which is extension of mind. The language of heart is neither win nor loss, neither happiness nor sadness , whatever comes in its way is its way. It does not know what is choosing, it does not know what is fear , it does not know what is knowing. The heart neither stops nor becomes tired . Do not seek experience but be it. So throw away the bags of burden and mountains of knowledge from your shoulders.
You do not have to travel thousands miles tough journey and crossing all oceans and mountains to reach at where you are standing now.
When you are healthy , you do not know your body .You do not know about your head until it gets headache. You do not know about your mind until it does not have thoughts.You only get to know about your ignorance but you will never know about the Truth.
There is nothing known that should to know. So approach the Unknown by being unknown.