Filters for Discourses
Showing 1 – 20 of 224 Records
For ScholarsPosted on: 13/12/2025(Jagajjīva Vicāra Yogaḥ)
31) Deho madhye pataś cāntye, bhrānti rādye na saṅgavān।
Mukta eva paraḥ kiṃ na?, traye 'pi ca samanvayaḥ॥
Ramanuja took the world as the external body of God and Madhva took the world as the shirt on the external body of God. The difference is that the bond between body and soul is strong, whereas the bond between soul and shirt is negligible and can be considered as non-existent. This difference is removed when both are correlated by saying that when even a liberated soul is detached from its body treating it as the shirt...
For ScholarsPosted on: 08/12/2025(Jagajjīva Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Sajiivaka jagat sṛṣṭaṃ, kimartham? rāsakelaye।
Ityajña bhāṣitaṃ kasmāt?, kiṃ jīvaḥ prakṛtiḥ parā?॥
[Why have You created the world with souls? Ignorant people say that You have created this world to enjoy this Rāsa-dance. Why such blame comes to You only? Is soul the best part of the world?]...
For ScholarsPosted on: 01/12/2025(Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Avatāro durguṇānāṃ,
bahutvaṃ varjayet puraḥ।
Svayaṃ doṣī krameṇāntyaṃ,
Sādhayen mā guṇabhramaḥ॥
[When Parabrahman incarnates, He will follow certain very bad rigid customs of the society in which the incarnation is present. When there are ten bad customs, there may be 8 customs that are easily repairable and there may...
For ScholarsPosted on: 23/11/2025(Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Verses 1-17
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Kiṃ Brahma Kiṃ Parabrahma?, ko bhedaḥ Kṛṣṇa! Caitayoḥ ?|
Divyāvatāra tattvaṃ kim?, kā vijñāna mata sthitiḥ ?॥
[O Krishna! What do You mean by Parabrahman? and what do You mean by Brahman? What is the difference between these two words? What is the essence of the divine incarnations? What is the place for logical analysis?]...
For ScholarsPosted on: 18/11/2025(Mahā Māyā Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Verses: 20-28
Jaḍaśaktir Mūla Māyā, Brahma kāraṇa śaktyabhit।
Anādyananta jagataḥ, Mahā Māyeti tadvacaḥ॥
[Mahā Māyā or Kāraṇa Śakti or Causal Power is not different from Parabrahman since both are unimaginable items even if you like to mention them separately due to your liking for dualism. The actual point is that we don’t know...
For ScholarsPosted on: 09/11/2025(Mahā Māyā Parabrahma Vicāra Yogaḥ)
Śrī Rādhā Devī uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]
1) Mahā Māyā'vatārā 'nte, Parabrahmaṇi līyate।
Kiṃ tathā sā yathā jīvaḥ, taijase tasya mokṣagaḥ॥
[At the end of the energetic or human incarnation, will the Mahā Māyā merge in the unimaginable God called Parabrahman in the same way as the soul after getting salvation merges in the energetic incarnation of God in the upper world?]
For ScholarsPosted on: 07/10/2025(Knowledge of the Analysis of Yoga)
1. So far the object to be attained, which is God (Brahman) and the subject or the item that is attaining object, which is soul (Jiiva), are discussed and now the way of attainment (Yoga) is discussed. The word Yoga comes from the root word ‘Yuj’, which means the way of attainment (attainer, attainment and attained make the triad or triputi). The word Yoga simply means attainment...
For ScholarsPosted on: 05/10/2025(Knowledge of The Qualities and Deeds Based on Ignorance)
1) Awareness has four functional faculties:- 1) Mind or Manah, which causes thinking in one way and in other way also. 2) Intelligence or Buddhi, which does logical analysis and arrives at conclusion. 3) Basic ego or ahamkaara, which indicates the individual soul as the central part of awareness denoted by a constant thought pulse ‘I’ and 4) Identification and memory or chittam, which grasps information of any external thing through senses (samjnaanam) and stores it for memory (smaranam) based on the root word...
For ScholarsPosted on: 26/09/2025(Knowledge of the Soul and Individual Soul)
1) Ramanuja told that the world is true but not eternal. It is like the flowing water, which changes constantly with the speed. If the truth of the world is taken as relative truth, there is no difference between Shankara and Ramanuja. Ramanuja spoke about relative truth only keeping silent on the absolute truth. Shankara spoke about absolute truth and the relative truth also. This is not any difference...
For ScholarsPosted on: 15/09/2025(Knowledge of The Essence of The World)
1) Jiiva means the individual soul whereas Aatman means soul. Individual soul is awareness and soul is the inert energy, which is converted into awareness existing in the form of specific work while functioning in a specific nervous system. When the electricity functions in a specific machine called cutting machine, the electricity is converted into a specific work called cutting work. When the same electricity functions in another specific machine called grinding machine, it is converted into a specific form of work called grinding work. The electricity is the soul...
For ScholarsPosted on: 25/08/2025Dr. Nikhil asked: Padanamaskarams Swamiji, I offer the following question at Your lotus feet for Your kind clarification. Your servant, Nikhil
According to many philosophies including Vedānta, only the unimaginable God (Parabrahman) is truly unborn (aja). His existence is absolute and spans the past, the present...
For ScholarsPosted on: 12/08/2025[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swami, how were You able to correlate all the spiritual philosophies based on the change of time and change of place?]
Swami replied:- The change of time indicates the next spiritual stage that is attained after doing some spiritual effort for some time. The present spiritual effort is related to both the present time and the spiritual stage that is to be attained...
For ScholarsPosted on: 03/08/2025*Updated on 03 August 2025
Prof. J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāraṃ, Swami. In yesterday’s online Satsanga, You told that in the case of a cat sitting on the centre of the compound wall separating two neighbour houses, the cat can neither be told belonging to one side nor be told belonging to the other side and similarly, the world can be told neither real nor unreal. But, here, we are discussing...
For ScholarsPosted on: 24/05/2025Shri JSR Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāram Swami. Is this creation real or unreal? It can’t be both real and unreal simultaneously and also it can’t be something, which is neither real nor unreal. -At Your divine holy lotus feet.]
Swami replied:- The entire world is created due to a mere wish of God (Icchā mātraṃ prabho ssṛṣṭiḥ). Though the world is inherently unreal like a daydream (creating an imaginary world in awakened...
For ScholarsPosted on: 10/02/2025Smt. Chhanda asked: My most beloved Swami! Paadanamaskaram to You! Please throw Your light on the following ignorance of mine. I have tried to understand the wonderful discourse on 'FOUNDATION OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE' for which the link is given here (Click) . In this discourse, I could not understand one point logically. Please enlighten me on that:
In the sentence "If the original God has spatial dimensions, it means, the space is in God...
For ScholarsPosted on: 07/02/2025[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅga namaskāraṃ Swami. Shankara wrote in a prayer “Kaupīnavantaḥ khalu bhāgyavantah” that the great soul is wandering saying that it is God or Brahman (Brahmāhamasmīti vibhāvayantaḥ). Does this not mean that Shankara agreed every soul is God? --At Your divine holy lotus feet]
Swami replied:- The monism told by Shankara applies to human incarnation, which can say that it is Brahman...
For ScholarsPosted on: 25/11/2024[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Sāṣṭāṅganamaskāram Swami, please enlighten on: 1. Logic and science, 2. Nature of space and 3. The ultimate unimaginable cause (not in need of created items due to their defects in dealing the topic of ultimate creator of this universe). This is with reference to the topic read by Dr. Nikhil in the Satsanga conducted on 29.09.2024 (Sunday) about which You also expressed immense pleasure...
For ScholarsPosted on: 15/11/2024[Prof. JSR Prasad asked:- Swamiji, please clarify an Advaita concept called ‘Bimba-Pratibimba Vāda’ (The argument of object and its reflection) about which I am questioned by scholars during my visit to Sanskrit University, Kalady.]
Swami replied:- The Parabrahman (unimaginable God) is beyond space. For a Bimba (object) to get reflected, it needs volume or the three spatial dimensions. Then, how can Parabrahman become bimba as per Advaita? Any Bimba belongs to the imaginable...
For ScholarsPosted on: 16/12/2022(For Intellectuals Only)
(This discussion took place in the morning of 07.12.2022, Shri Datta Jayanti)
[Shri J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Sashtanga Pranams Swami. May I request You to please correlate the following Vedic statements – A. Asdvā idamagra āsīt tato vai sadajāyata, B. Brahma vā idamagra āsīt, tadātmānamavet, Ahaṃ Brahmāsmīti (Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad), C. Sadeva Saumyedamagra āsīt (Taittirīyopaniṣad)...
For ScholarsPosted on: 30/11/2022Dr. J.S.R. Prasad asked:- Sashtanga Pranams Swami. How can You say that dream is real? In the dream, I saw a lion. Compared to awaken state, I never saw a lion in this real world. Therefore, only awaken state is real while the dream state is unreal. Please comment on these remarks. - At Your Holy Divine Lotus Feet
Swami Replied:- Why should you compare awaken state with dream state? In that case, you can compare awaken state with deep-sleep state also and say that deep-sleep is also unreal. Unreal can never be experienced. You have experienced...
Filters for Discourses