The Pursuit of Gold Is Rooted in Our Nature as Annde

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I don't know myself as being. The more stuff i have, i feel my being expanding more. It could just be rubbish. You notice sometimes unfortunate mentally ill person, homeless, lugging along a huge sack of stuff. So is it that poor person's essential stuff? No, not. It's random gar picked up from here and there. And that is really relevant to the united states. Very overrun with stuff. When the house is over am it goes into a garage. People buy storag space. Big, big places where it's just what's there, just stuff for what? For nothing, just for being there. That is very philosophical, pure being, existence

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?