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Swami Sarvapriyananda frequently speaks at symposia and events focused on Advaita Vedanta teachings, [8] [9] [10] and has participated in discussions with other non-dualists. [11] He is a very strong proponent and scholar of the Indian Upanishad school of thought and the philosophy or Darshan, particularly of Self and Consciousness contained in ...
Swami Tathagatananda was the president since 1977 until his death on 25 June 2016. [3] Swami Sarvapriyananda was appointed as Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York, and assumed his duties on January 6, 2017.
Vedanta is the evidence of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the various commentaries on these texts and the Bhagavad Gita. The Nitya (daily), Naimittika (occasional) and Prayscitta (purifying) works purify the mind, Upasanas are not karmas , the former lead to the Pitruloka and the latter, to the Satyaloka .
arshabodha.org, Swami Tadatmananda's lectures on Adi Shankaracharya's Drig Drishya Viveka; Vedanta Society, Swami Sarvapriyananda's lectures on Drig Drishya Viveka - 12 Part Series; Infinity Foundation, Seer-Seen Discrimination; Happiness of Being blogspot, Dṛg-dṛśya-vivēka: distinguishing the seer from the seen
By the early 1950s Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Gerald Heard had joined the editorial board of the Society's journal, Vedanta In the West. [36] The Swami established Vedanta Press, [37] which oversaw the publication of books that would become standard textbooks for college-level courses, including The Spiritual Heritage of India ...
Vedanta speaks of mind (chitta), ... Swami Sarvapriyananda explains it thus: [8] "See, this table is an object of experience to my eyes. My eyes and the body are ...
Gavin Flood suggests that although Advaita Vedanta is the most well-known school of Vedanta and is sometimes wrongly perceived as the sole representation of Vedantic thought, [1] with Shankara being a follower of Shaivism, [59] the true essence of Vedanta lies within the Vaisnava tradition and can be considered a discourse within the broad ...
The Advaita Guru-Paramparā ("Lineage of Gurus in Non-dualism") is the traditional lineage of divine, Vedic and historical teachers of Advaita Vedanta.It begins with the Daiva-paramparā, the gods; followed by the Ṛṣi-paramparā, the Vedic seers; and then the Mānava-paramparā, with the historical teachers Gaudapada and Adi Shankara, and four of Shankara's pupils. [1]