You Are the Infinite

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The language of merging can lead to, i'm trying to merge with the infinite. Shankar himself uses this metaphor, raindrop falling into the ocean and becoming one with the ocean. If you ask the enlightened one, so where you a raindrop and you fell into the ocean, became one with it? Vere you an individual being, then you became enlightened. Now you are brahman, of course not. I just realize, i and everybody else, we always were this reality. We just didn't see it. It's absolute reality, not isuar, the god of this universe. That is really, really god.

Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on June 5th, 2022. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:32 - How is it that the self is in all beings from the chit (consciousness) perspective? 18:37 - Where is my consciousness when I am sleeping? Can I use sleep as a spiritual practice? 26:55 - Will a realized person retain their individuality after enlightenment? 40:38 - Why do we call this world false? 55:53 - What does Sri Ramakrishna mean by going into the black water (in reference to samadhi)? 01:00:30 - If we want to take up a life of renunciation, what practices should be followed?