Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Dec 28th, 2025
Jan 4, 2026
In this enlightening session, Swami Sarvapriyananda engages with audience members on profound topics. He explores the nature of pure experience and Brahman, challenging perceptions of consciousness and identity. Questions range from whether enlightened beings can manipulate time to the potential for AI to achieve consciousness. Swami offers insights on meditation for liberation, the significance of Ishta Devata, and the role of living cells in artificial intelligence. His nuanced discussion blends ancient philosophy with modern dilemmas, making for a thought-provoking dialogue.
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Experience Is Consciousness Appearing Twice
- Vedanta locates experience as consciousness appearing as both subject and object, not subject minus object.
- Pure or bare experience is the underlying ground (Brahman) that appears as the experiencing subject and experienced object.
Practice The 'As-If' Method
- Use the "as-if" method: cultivate faith, Vedantic thought, and a shifted vision to internalize nondual truth.
- Practice these three together until the conviction and demeanor naturally reflect the teaching.
Transcending Time Is Immortality
- Enlightenment transcends time because time, like space and objects, appears in consciousness.
- The enlightened person has effectively stepped outside the time-scale in which worldly beings live.
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