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where is God not separated at all it is you here now you everywhere at all times then what does AD do for us if it is I me now but why don't I experience it then ad says the problem is that we are not separated from God by space desha we are not separated from God by kala time God is not a separate object from us also God is separate from us by only ignorance we don't see it we don't know it we don't realize it and the way is from not from one place to another not from one time to another not from myself to something else but from ignorance to knowledge from aana to Gana God is separated from us only by our I say ignorance but it's a fancy English word in utarak sadhu said said what what is it that separates you from God and in Hindi they said stupidity only only foolishness separates you from God what is the difference the Gap the Gap is foolishness and that has to be removed how is it removed we know I will not go into that you will be thinking now he will start and no so there are many many procedures in vant these procedures are called Pras but all of them they are just pointing out something that's already existing when we understand what they're talking about we are we are like oh this is what it is it was always there I just didn't see [Music] it uh we see that this body is an object to my awareness we see the thoughts also I'm aware of then what is it that is aware I remember you know among the European philosophers very wellknown one of the greatest names is deart is we have studied in school also not the philosophical part of it mathematics you all remember cartisian coordinates so the same decart the mathematician is a philosopher and um there is a book called meditations dart's meditations his famous Kito or gustum he wanted to find out what is it that we can be certain of everything in this world can be doubted what we are seeing now it can be a dream it can be um you know metrix movie you're sitting in the middle of some kind of simulation virtual reality you can doubt it is it actually true or not am I actually sitting there and watching a listening to a talk or am I sleeping in my home think dreaming that I have gone to the asham and listening to a talk who knows but he said what is it that that is certain which cannot be doubted from there I will build up all knowledge so this is the great skepticism of deart the skeptical project and those who have studied philosophy you know that he investigated a very vitic kind of if you read the original I mean original means translated from French you see it's almost a vitic kind of inquiry I doubt this so this cannot be certain I can doubt this this cannot be certain but one thing I cannot doubt I am thinking I am doubting that I cannot doubt I think therefore I exist Kito or gum if you read this anybody who reads vant will immediately recognize more than 1200 years thousand years before deard Shankar writes the one who doubts the Atman that is the Atman of the very doubter you cannot doubt your own existence the very doubt proves that I exist if I say I doubt whether I exist it's like saying saying actually I doubt whether I can speak you are speaking but why am I saying all this what dear does not do is the next part of it in the meditations if you see he does not investigate what is it that he has found so I exist I cannot doubt my own existence then next he goes on to show how knowledge can be bu built up on the certain foundations the foundations of the certainty of my own existence but what am I I that I certainly exist that certain existence he does not investigate it any further he does not investigate any further in fact one very point line in the meditations of deart is little later he says how strange it is that that of which I am most certain I do not know anything and that which I know a lot I'm not at all certain about it I know that I exist but what am I I don't know surely I exist but what is it that I am I that who who exists I don't know that and I know so many things in the world but I can never be certain about it but he does not investigate that what deart did not investigate he went on further he went back into the world again Vidar Swami 300 years before deart right here in Karnataka in the Vijay nagar Kingdom at the beginning of his Masterpiece the padash at the very first chapter in the very beginning after the Mangal Mangal mangalacharan shlokas the first schloka which he writes he starts in investigating he begins where deart was going to leave off there he begins to go inwards first shoka beautiful I have so many experiences in this world sha hearing smelling tasting touching thinking remembering Desiring hating waking dreaming sleeping all of these are coming and going apart from them illumining all of them is one suit all these experiences are different from each other seeing the glass is different from seeing the mic seeing is different from hearing hearing is different from tasting tasting is different from thinking thinking is different from feeling all these are different from each other but behind all of them illumining all of them making the experience of those things possible is one constant some withd Consciousness which does not differ from moment to moment it does not change from moment to moment the suwi Consciousness which illumines like the light which falls on this stage and illumines this class and illumines this paper weight and the table and the person it's the same light person glass and all of these are different from each other but the light is constant it's the same light similarly Consciousness is one and constant and he starts there remarkable performance in eight to nine eight shlokas starting from the third schloka onwards till the 10th schloka I think he shows just by experience what experience the kind of experience which we are all having right now he shows just by experience and um just by reason he points out see you see that this subit you are this Consciousness yes it does not come and go it is uh it is permanent in that sense it is sat and then he shows how that samit is Anand also I will not go into it wonderful just by subtle reasoning on our already available experience and then he shows you are saand you you thisit what you have discovered about yourself he say now open the upanishad this is called Brahman what an amazing demonstration in eight verses he has shown the entire upanishadic um teaching without referring to the open he said before opening the open take a look at your own experience I will show you that you are Brahman right now right here forever then open the open you will see open is telling you what you're already experiencing amazing demonstration so this is the grand conclusion of AD vant whether you do it through Pak there are so many ways in the there are all Pras there are these procedures developed to show us what we are in that investigating into ourselves Ina vid Swami says within ourselves our thought and Consciousness this is mixed up because of avidya the difference between I the Consciousness and my thoughts uh is not distinct to me I I don't see the difference between I myself the Consciousness and my mind and outside in the world that one existence and the names and forms and activities n which is going on I don't see the difference between them because of avidya this distinction we have to make apart from names and forms not body not mind not the pchas I am the witness Consciousness not names and forms the underlying undivided existence good there is God

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Keywords: Swami Sarvapriyananda, spiritual education, Vedanta, Advaita, god, where is god, ramkrishna, Vivekananda, mission Ramakrishna, meditation, be calm

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Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 19 2024