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How can we recognise our true nature and intuitively turn inwards in everyday experience? | Mirror,

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Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the topic, “How can we recognize our true nature in everyday experience?"

This short video is from the following Ask Swami Q&A session:
Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Jun...
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20 Comments

@umap1819 1 year ago

Again and again in innumerable videos he makes the concepts clear to the Advaita students . No words to thank him only my Koti pranams 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻.Now our job is to retain the mind on consciousness always and reject world and associated problems .

@thomas_brouwer 1 year ago

The mirror explanation is one of the best most direct pointers I've come across. A powerful video. We are indeed privileged to access such material and for free. Thank you a lot.

@Jamie-k1b5q 11 months ago

This could well be a talk on Buddhist philosophy. When people hear that the world doesn't exist, they get scared, but it only means that it has no existence of it's own, since it is the display of Mind. That's what emptiness is. It's not a question of nihilism & fear then, but of bliss.
Great, great description of the world's non-dual schools and where they come together.

@in_light. 1 year ago

This is reassuring and it is a reminder that I'm at that point, well on the path. It has taken years. I do not try to explain to anyone where I am and most people would not understand my paradigm shift. And I remember Swami's advice from a talk "don't be weird about it" when relating to others (ergo, don't explain, just be and do). I am beyond my self. For me, it was always coming, all my life. As much as I tried, it didn't happen. But when I surrendered, it did. With that shift, it's amazing at times what one is shown. I so admire Swami Sarvapriyananda's ability to always explain and elucidate, no matter how many times a question is asked in as many countless ways.

"We are the mirror, as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.
We are pain and what cures pain.
We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain,
no beautiful women and men longing.
Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing.
Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it."
- Rumi

@mohanakrishnanc.p288 1 year ago

Explained the most difficult one in a simplest way by quoting mirror example. Pranams Swamiji🙏

@kookaburra3556 1 year ago

Love the 'sharp turn' example at 3.35 - sometimes I make the turn, but often I skid off back to the mind. I'm working on my driving skills and getting better at it!, thanks Swami

@bronwencoghill 11 months ago

Thank you, thank you Swamiji 🙏🙏

@narendratirumale3101 1 year ago

The effort He puts in to explain in a way that the message is driven with total clarity is most touching. ❤

@RKdevotees 1 year ago

Such a short video yet illustrating the very truth we are striving to realise. Salutations to Maharaj. Jai Thakur. 🙏🙏🙏

@bevin7 1 year ago

Beautiful. Thank you Swami.

@mithrakss 1 year ago (edited)

Thank you swamiji ( guruji )🙏

@youtueuser12747 1 year ago

Clear indepth knowledge that one seeks is so hard to find on one hand & on the other hand we have swamiji.

Pranam 🙏 🙏 🙏

@srimantabanerjee6302 5 months ago

🙏 My love and deep respect to Swamiji

@gopikrishnal1425 1 year ago

Gem of an explanation

@scottwyckoff5483 1 year ago

I, we , consciences are the mirror. Thank you Swami

@mithrakss 1 year ago

Thank you so much Guruji 🙏

@RamSamudrala 1 year ago

This is fantastic! I never really understood the mirror analogy until now. It's because we have to assume there's ONLY a mirror and reflection, no independent object that is being reflected. So it's just like the screen and movie analogy.