2. Mandukya Upanishad | Chapter 1 Mantra 2 | Swami Sarvapriyananda 

" Rare indeed is the teacher who can communicate this grand sense of wonder " -- Katha uponishad - 1.2.7 Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher and the messenger of enlightenment, bless me.

Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

This is a masterful lecture. You aren’t likely to get this level of information on Advaita Vedanta from top universities around the world. Well done sir. 🙏

Such a great question about Gravity (Chapter 1 Mantra 2 discussion).

🙏🙏🙏 Just great Swami. Vedantha seems so easy to understand through your lectures. This lecture seems one of the most insightful. Aham Brahma asmi.

No one has ever explained this truth to the core like you swami sarvapriyananda.....from here one can automatically be enlightened ❤❤❤❤

Thank You Swamiji. Such a patience and openness to take the questions on their face.

Awesome thankyou swamiji 🙏 When one relates to the primary understanding that all is conciousness , then everything else can only be the mind including the questioner and questions, it's surreal to think that this whole lecture and each person including me , is nothing but a dream manifest ! Thank God for Vedanta and these brilliant teachers that help educate us to this truth 🙏

Soo deep.. amazing session

All knowledge from guru sarvapriyananda ji🙏

Swamiji pranam, what a great teacher you are? Charan sparsh.

Swamiji pranams with Guru's grace able to catch what you're trying to express... very contemplative.... Pranamas to lotus feet

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Enjoying all the great talks

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You are very patient.

I love the way swami ji is about to say experience but suddenly stops at "x"... Prostrations Swami Ji

Thank you so much Swami Ji for spreading the Supreme Truth on RU-vid, because of your selfless work many people are realizing their Brahmanhood and waking up from the dream of form. Thank you for causing the truth that Brahman is real, the world is an appearance, and we are Brahman (Non-dual). This is so awesome, it is like a man waking from a dream and saying with all conviction, "it was not real" but I am real. Namaste Swami Ji!!!!🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you so much swamiji🙏 So grateful to you 🌟

Thank you swamiji for a wonderful and simple ,easy to understand explaination of a profound subject

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Jai Shree Indra, Jai Mumma Usha, Jai Shree Garuda, Jai Shree Brahspathicharya Dev, Jai Shree Shukracharya Dev, Jai Swami Vivekananda Ji, Jai Shree Ramakrishna, Jai Mumma Saradha, Jai Swami Sarvapriyananda, Jai Mumma Lakshmi, Har Har Mahadev, Jai Mumma Universe, Jai Mumma Durga, Jai Mumma Saraswati, Jai Mumma Tripura Sundari ki ❤❤❤❤❤❤

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My mother's name was (Late) Gayatri ... after my initiation I(13yrs) had told my KulaGura that I need to call 'Maa Maa' for 108 times & my Sandhya would be over.

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Shathakoti pranams thanks guruji

Understood . Mandukya upanishad has to be gone through thoroughly.

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Sir ,clear doubts at the end

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Pranam Swamiji, I am very thankful for your RU-vid lectures on upnishads. They are very insightful and make it easier to understand the profound meanings of the mantras of the upanishad. It has helped me immensely in my Upanishad studies. On your lecture on Mandukya upanishad mantra 2 - inquiry about the self, I have couple of doubts. Especially abut the 5 steps that you have explained for understanding the 4 aspects of Atma. I would be very grateful to you if you can help me clear these doubts. Doubt 1 - Does Atman/Consciousness Exist? You have very well explained that Existence is dependent on knowability, knowability on Knower and Knower on Atman/Consciousness. But if we used the same test for existence of Atman/Consciousness, won’t we conclude that Atman/Consciousness does not not exist as it cannot pass the first test of “Knowability”. We know Atma is not knowable, it is beyond knowledge. In that case we come to a strange conclusion that everything is mythia (false) except the Atman/Consciousness and Atman/Consciousness does not the exist or is “nothing”. So what we are left with is mythia and nothing. Doubt 2 - how can we conclude that existence is dependent on Knower? Knowability of anything does not depend on the knower. There can be an existence which is knowable but it is not known as there is no knower. But the existence can be independent of the knower. The first condition is just the knowability it is not “that it should be known” just the knowability is good enough. Many Thanks in advance. Chirag Doshi Vadodara, Gujarat

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Thank you Swami! Question: Where does innovations lie in the knowability. We know it falls under the realm of Knower! Thanks!

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Le Soi "transcende" la pure conscience car Il est antérieur, prédominant et connaissant celle-ci! Comme l'a écrit, dans l'Uttara-Gita, Gaudapada:" For the attainment of my desired goal I take refuge in the Self, the entire substratum, unfragmented, beyond the reach of speech ant the mind, existence, pure conscience and bliss." Donc, cette pure conscience est dépendante du Soi; alors que ce dernier, est et en demeure, Indépendant et Libre à celle-là...! Cordialement!

Pranam.Thank you for the wonderful talk. Is this is last talk by samiji in chapter 1? I can't find the next sequence.Chapter 2 also missing.kind request for uploading the same

Pronam to Revered Swami Sarvapriyananda.I agree with Swami-ji's logic that Prameyam and Pramata do not have any real existence. Now, I put forward a supposition at this point of discussion. I (as knower) can feel the existence of an inanimate object (Prameyam) like a wooden lectern (or "lecternly wood", as per Swami -ji"s logic). On the other hand, such an inanimate object may not feel my existence, as it may not possess any instrument of knowledge to know me. Yet both of these have been put into the same group, false existence/ Mithya, having ?same characteristics. What is it that separates the two in spite of being within the same group? Can the "Prakasha-Bimarsha theory" in Kashmir Shaivism lend a helping hand to explain the fundamentals in this case?

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Need clarification! We are using the example of Sun, but let us consider the example of black holes for instance. Black holes existed but unknown to all except a handful who understood the science and mathematics. But the experience came much later after the invention of powerful telescopes. Can we therefore say that Knowability is independent of the unknown and the knower?

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So pramata is body of (I/CONSCIOUSNESS)

1:23:05 maybe, like a 3D printer. Same stuff, different form & function

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Namaskar! For Swamiji's statement about knowability and existence, I would propose this argument : Assuming the force of gravity . We assume that ever since this Universe has existed, objects have grossly observed the laws of gravity. Asteroids changed paths in the vicinity of a big planet. Collapsing stars pulled light surrounding them inwards . And so on. Meaning, even though there was no conscious observer ( at least to the understanding a modern thinker), 'objects' , 'things' grossly followed the laws of Gravity. Would that not be, in a sense, knowability of Gravity? Would that also not imply , therefore, that consciousness exists independent of a conscious observer? This is just my observation in support of Swamiji's statement. And also in support of the broad supposition that consciousness transcends biology.

Good commentary. One question, please: while explaining the step #4 about dependent existence, you asserted that a) wood is true and a lectern made of wood is not; b) materiality of gold is real and true while an ornament of gold is not. I feel that none of the materials, regardless of how we experience them, is true and only the energy is real and true. Let me extend your dependency to say, even gold is not real as it is composed of a known set of atomic particles, even the atomic particles are not real as we know certain specific composition of quarks make up the subatomic particles and this dependency chain goes on till the only source of all matter is all-pervading energy or Paramatma. Do you agree?

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Namaskar swamiji as per the first stage only things can exist if it is knowable to self . As existence depends on knowability, It is the truth - When one knows Brahman then only Brahman ( The individual) can exist to one. Please enlighten

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Is there then any relationship between "knowability" and "awareness" in terms of understanding "existence"

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Suppose I came to your home , took turn from main road till market as I was there before I had a memory , or i accessed some already built memory to arrive at the destination hence it can inferred as if the present that which is appearing is based on some memories only .lets us suppose that somehow all the previous memory is erased..and that include the texture , knowledge of colours , shapes and forms etc ...then what will be the experience ....i suppose it would be nothing or empty !! And will be non existent...and this required memory on which the experience depends in turn depends on the knowability of the knower ..hence depends on the knower or the experiencer..

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It's Quantum mechanics, thing is not there if nobody is looking/ sensing it

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We know gravity today hence only we can say that gravity existed billions of years ago even when there was no experiencer. Means its experience/knowing today makes presence of knowability in the past, billions of years ago. If nobody ever experienced it or know it what is gravity, how can he raise the question that it is something which must have existed without knower in the past? We dont experience 10 hands human today , can we raise a question it existed billions of years ago? Todays discoveries makes knowabilities of the things of the past . We r alive makes that we have great grandfathers in the past. We can not tell about the existence of great grandfathers of a non existent/ non experienced Mr XYZ? Such great concepts can only be thought but can not be explained in language. In the lightening , we now know that it is electricity and we can say in the past when there was no knower, it must be electricity. We dont experience honey in it and can say in the past there wasnt any honey in it. When we dont experience anything how can we say that these must have existed in the past?

Dear Swamiji, you are very patient, but questions can be left in last 10 mins .Majority of students would like to progress further and concentrate on what you have to say and teach.This is very polite suggestion.

Entirely designed worpe give me baby I make anyone anything says the biologist.

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