What is ina nation of god? What is god? After all? Little bit of idantic theory here. So he's just quoting what sirama chrishna said more than once. He told sami veve carande that he who was rama, he who was christna, is in this body but not in your vedantic sense. That reality, pure consciousness atman brahman, in association with this enormous cosmos, which appears in it, is god. Brahman plus the appearance is god. We are the same pure consciousness, but identified with one part of the appearance, reflected in one mind and one body. And saying, i am this, not
Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Nov 7th, 2021. List of questions with timestamps:
05:10 - What happens to the reflected consciousness after death, and after enlightenment?
19:10 - What is my swadharma?
35:20 - What is the difference between the knower and the witness?
41:20 - Where does Sri Ramakrishna stand in the triad of Iswara, Jiva, and Jagat?
51:15 - Is enlightenment a gradual process or a “wow” moment?
01:02:40 - What is Shraddha?
01:15:33 - Is there any overlap between psychotherapy and Vedanta?