A Critique of Sam Harris's Stance on Miracles 

swami ji you deserve millions of views, we sanatanis are ignoring such gems like you.

I really appreciate and respect your point of view. I have been looking for content like this due to my own life experiences. You've been inspiring me to keep moving forward with my own spiritual path. Thank you Swami! 🙏🕉️🙏🕉️🙏🕉️

Masterclass. Your perspective is much needed 🎉

Thank you Swami, such clarity of thought and openness to share and discuss with people of opposite views. Very precious.

Excellent Satsang. We know when the time is right his sweet Atma will scream into the galaxies “Oh I wanna go home” And he will feel a GREAT SMACK in his Heart and the Love, magic and mystery will happen. So very Grateful to our Beloved Swami Vishwananda

Great content, Swamiji

I really appreciate your rationale reasonable and fair review of Sam’s talk

Posted this on Reddit. It had over 800 views in 1.5 hours. Wonderful discussion. This is so important! Getting a logical discussion happening without wanting to destroy someone! God, no matter how He is loved, wants compassion and for us all to get along. Great job.

It's beautiful to see someone living their dharma... Keep up Swamiji, share your wisdom and many more videos! 🙏🏻 Ram Ram ❤

Great Video, as usual!

Hope this video comes to Mr. Harris attention. It would be interesting to see a meeting between him and Paramahamsa Vishwananda. Maybe the Guruji would be willing to give Mr. Harris a gift, lets say a ring or a necklace - if you know what I mean. lol I can't help but imagine his face.

Keep the good work prabhu

Nice one Swami - well articulated in a grounded way, its concise and addressing the points with clarity and reason for people to reflect on their thought process instead of just spewing preconceived info or ideas on the internet of things the mind cannot comprehend...

That was an amazing discussion thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you Swamiji for this excellent and thought-provoking presentation. The way you put things right and back into context is so clear, refreshing and simply logical that it is a pleasure to follow through. Your personal experience is so precious for who doesn’t limit themselves to what they think they know. Could it be that some people have no real interest in investing and experiencing the truth. Could it be that in their arrogance and complacency it is enough for them to „be right“? So be it. Hari Bol ❤

✨🙏✨ Excelente, gracias.

Jai Gurudev ❤ Theres this great author (Biochemist from Oxford; Rupert Sheldrake) that contested Dawkin’s work in a book called “The Science Delusion”, where he shows how science has been developed to be dogmatic and has transformed into a religion of sorts, without ever showing proof a it’s dogmas. He is brilliant. He also has an exquisite book called “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature” where he argues about how things acquire their shape and how our habits influence other people’s habits (through his Morphic Field Theory). It goes in hand with what Guruji says about if we better ourselves, other people will do the same ❤❤

Thanks for the topic Swamiji! I have a friend who talks about Sam Harris alot and does his meditation techniques. He was completely rude and in my opinion highly offensive towards God whenever the topic was brought up. Now I know where he got this trait. 😢

🙏 🦚👣🌺🕊 Hare Krisna ❤

If anything, I found Sam's argument very compelling.

Summary is, all this is VERY nuanced. It's not as simple as easy blind faith, but it's also not about all this narrow speculation. It's a deep rabbit hole

Sam Harris napisał świetną książkę: „Duchowość, przebudzenie bez religii”. Rzetelną, rzeczową, bazującą na dowodach naukowych a nie wyłącznie wierzeniach. Po prostu, punkt widzenia zależy od miejsca, w jakim dany człowiek się znajduje. Różnie ludzie postrzegają prawdę. I tyle.

Please guru ji make a video on the book the truth about caste system by N K vaid sir and because of casteism people defame and leave Hinduism 😢 and we need your help

Great video. Just one thing can you post a picture of deity you are talking about. Curious to know about it.

If there is such a thing that I have a soul and that would be reborn for eternity till I find the god, then I don't want to find him. I want to experience this life again and again and suffer for eternity. What a precious privilege it would be suffer again and again in which is almost miraculous called life.

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pranam guruji we need open discussion

Speak with the students of sai baba to get a better understanding of miracles performed in their presence

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Namasthe swami, can u share us how you see the world, how you view people of other beliefs, landscapes, geographies, etc.

There is no material cause for your experience of diety, but there can be a psychological explanation for it, I am not judging you for experiencing that , But it is possible that you could be hypnotised to believe certain things, there is also a possibility that he already had the diety. I am sure you extracted meaning this way with that particular experiences based on your understanding of things. In my view, it is possible he didn’t make you believe anything , But because you’re open to suggestion, you are more likely to believe in certain things, mind is incredibly incredibly powerful thing.

As a Hindu I don't agree with your statement ..... I don't believe any supernatural experience .... but your Other arguments are valid

We're souls

i don't agree with you argument that extraordinary claims should be judged by same standards as ordinary ones, the reason for that is ordinary claim require lesser evidence because it being ordinary already implies much of it is already proved so a minimum amount extra evidence is needed, in case of extraordinary claims like resurrection, there has not been a single admissible evidence of such a thing so the evidence for it is so low already that its paramount that we demand much more evidence for this claim, i.e to be frank if some one wants to give evidence of resurrection then they have to show a live example of it now which can scientifically verified by people as not been rigged, nobody has shown such a phenomena hence resurrection cannot be believed in unless you have faith in it, same implies to claims like virgin birth, but even if so that still doesn't prove historicity of jesus's resurrection or virgin birth because evidence collection and preservation during jesus's time was not good enough to provide any evidence of those phenomena anyways, but now do you see if you give live instances of resurrection and virgin birth then the evidence demanded for accounts of jesus's ressurrection and virgin birth are way less extraordinary because such phenomena have been already proven to exist.

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There is no such thing as miracle worshipers of yakshas ,pisacha or great spirits can do it by their grace or help just like sai baba,devrah baba ,pret maharaj ,sanyasi baba there are many in india these things are bindings and desire attachments .these things exist in this three modes of material world .😊

Would love to do a talk with you

Vaishnavas are not impressed by gurus who regurgitate objects, who perform cheap tricks to attract the public attention of emotionally helpless people.

I spent three months in 2023 at Sri Satya Sai's home and ashram in Puttaparthi. The comments on Satya Sai here are chilling. The ignorance and arrogance here is staggering. Isn't even a little respect due for someone with millions of followers who commands huge financial contributions from the largest corporates of India?

Wah... When he speaks of miracles as outlandish. What are we supposed to do with our miraculous experiences? Why is he owed evidence by those who have experienced miracles? He should just relax and enjoy his non miraculous life.

Why do you have to label something that you don't understand as supernatural or miracle? It is just simply you don't understand. Let's say you lived in an environment totally unloved and you have no introduction to what love is and the truth is you meet someone and experience love and just do not understand what love is but you feel light /good, is that a miracle? Or supernatural? No. Why should Sam label his experience with the guru a miracle if what he experienced in his presence something he doesn't have a word for. What is experienced egolessness, total acceptance and absence of conflict, something that everyone wants to experience but don't, everyone wants to experience total acceptance /love from others which never happens, they don't even get to experience that alone with themselves, so experiencing it for the first time is going to be incredibly calming for him or anyone, there is an explanation, he just doesn't know it and it definitely isn't miraculous. Not that i agree with Sam all the time, I have seen him to be biased without his awareness , he has jumped to the conclusion and then propagates it by finding points to support his arguments. In my view, in human realm anything favorable that we do not have an explanation for is considered a miracle. I am seeing online people talking about ghost encounters, their minds playing tricks and they do not understand what to believe and convince themselves that their experience is unexplainable hence supernatural. It is lack of awareness that you are not able to look at all the facts at hand to be able to judge accurately and hence lapses in judgment. People have hard time holding information in their minds that is incomplete and try to explain it to have a 'clear' picture in the now so they can move on from that event. You don't have to explanation for everything to accept it for what it is. Sun rises from east, ypu don't have to know east or west to know that that particular direction is where this thing named sun rises and on the opposite side rests, but fear of unknown makes people want to find out what it is and how it works so they can be assured that it is not a threat, if you can't explain why sun is rising and setting you will think it is a miracle that it comes up daily at the same time illuminates everything so you can see around and eat vegetables and do your thing and quite fortunately sets at the right time so you can have an uninterrupted sleep, how miraculous right? Why not start worshipping it so it doesn't stop doing it, do things to keep it happy, you see where I am going with this? There are so many things e still don't know about the universe, there are so many things we don't know about our own bodies which are with us 24x7! And can be perceived by our senses let alone universe which has stuff we can't even sense. Just because science hasn't caught upto something it does not make it supernatural, it is just natural that we have no understanding of yet. While it is mind boggling how ancient Indians knew so much about body and especially mind and how ego works to have created entire philosophy based on that about karma and dharma which is quite accurate.

Ohhhhh.... brother, you messed up bad on the Satya Sai part. Harris is talking about the videos where Satya Sai was caught on tape doing bad magic tricks. Caught pulling objects out of sleeve etc. Did you not know this? On that point, he makes a valid point. He wasn't talking about his energy or Shakipat etc, it's fake magic tricks. Ouch, I was loving your video until you began speaking about the Sai Baba stuff, without being aware that he was caught faking miracles of manifesting items. You come across very naive after the Sai Baba part. You might need to research that and then delete this video and redo again

I’m not body I’m not mind

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