|| Maya || by Swami Sarvapriyananda(Part-6)

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Mirage so he is who gave a talk where he's as mobile known scholar and Hegel's

so he said yes this is a new line of investigation how much did actually Hegel knew to know about Asian philosophy and how much it took from there I,

in fact,

asked another philosopher whom you might recognize the jack Slavoj Zizek he's a superstar crazy you just have to look at Zi Zi DK

So he spoke in the Schwartzman building the New York Public Library here in Manhattan near Bryant Park so

I went to attend that because I I have heard him speak on YouTube and I've read his work earlier

so I was very interested and he is in one word crazy

so if you listen to him for 10 minutes also used oh he says the most outrageous things for but he says it for effect if you actually wait a little bit it's not

|| Maya || by Swami Sarvapriyananda(Part-6)

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so outrageous he has got he is actually saying something good for example outrageous thing right here in the New York Public Library,

he's giving his talk he said this and even she was saying this can get me into trouble but listen to the whole explanation which is a very good point he makes he said Gandhi is actually more violent than Hitler looking

so outraged

what how dare you say that and the people are only looking like this,

I said wait I know him

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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so why he says Gandhi actually destroyed the British Empire by his non-violence he changed the world

what did it let change nothing the same old world more violence and then it's tamed world continued after that

so Gandhi is actually more violent than Hitler he speaks like that anyway

so that's why I was a little hesitant if I go up to him a monk-like this and ask the question I don't know

what he will say I don't mind but

so I sort of

I went up to him and asked him the same question because he's one of the leading scholars of Hegel in the world today

so I asked him professor Z Jake

what do you think of Hegel's views of Indian philosophy and he said he's a very strong Slovenian accent oh he's just studied secondary sources he didn't know enough it didn't know enough and this is somebody who remembers who is saying this his the background is Marxist and Freudian psychoanalytic and Marxism this is the background from which he comes

|| Maya || by Swami Sarvapriyananda(Part-6)

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so he is absolutely no friend of any kind of religion or spirituality or order but he said Hegel did an injustice to Indian philosophy but he also said something interesting just as well as I shall share it I said

what do you think of the workshop an hour because you know sharpen our loved Indian the philosophy he said he read the Upanishads it was his favorite reading every day in the night he would read a few pages of the opening shots and go to sleep before that before going to sleep he would read the few pages of the Upanishads he said I considered no other study in the world as beneficial as the study of these opening shots the translation except perhaps the original these Upanishads have been the solace of my life and will be the solace of my death,

Schopenhauer his masterpiece the world as will and idea the world has will an idea in the first chapter,

he says

what I shall say in these volumes Schopenhauer says

what I shall say in these volumes was best known to the ancient Hindus called it Maya

so I asked Dziedzic

what do you think of shopping out but he had an interesting point of he said even I think even Schopenhauer westernized Indian thought right interesting because

we awakened also had to say it has the same opinion

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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so what is Vivekananda's objection the spirit is expressing itself everything is getting better and better and better ultimately it will reach perfection Hitler loved that by the way,

it's expressing itself and now the best expression now is the state and of course in the state it means the German state and of course in the German state means the Nazi state and of course,

the best expression of that is I Hitler

so the ultimate expression of the absolute anyway Viveca others objection is this any kind of expression is a limitation right to actually

what is expression name and form time-space and causation a thing no matter how beautiful a thing no matter how advanced something it's still a thing it is one thing and not the other thing if it is an expression in time-space and causation it's a finite thing the infinite can express itself only infinite things

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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so any kind of expression no matter how wonderful

we'll still be finite the infinite cannot be expressed as the infinite this is the deep the fundamental flaw in Hegelian thought that ultimately it'll become the absolute no it will become an imitation of the absolute

so then

what is the answer Viva Condor says the answer the ancient vedantins found was not in the flow of Maya but against the current that the infinite is expressing itself and experiencing itself in all these ways and finally realizes that true peace is not to be found here true fulfillment is not to be found here completion is not to be found here infinity is not to be found here and then begins the movement inverts Vacanti says two words probability and everything but everything means circling outwards wider and wider circles into the universe never Italy means circling inwards and he says true spirituality begins with this inward movement he says renunciation therefore is the basis of spirituality,

not peace is not to be found in a thing out there peace is not to be found in the object it is to be found in the subject

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

so the source movement back to the source to Brahman that is a spirituality that is Vedanta another objection the second great objection comes he says which is more common here in the world today very few of us seriously in Manhattan if you ask are you a Hegelian or something is

what they look at you strangely and walk away from you

so very few are Hegelians but many people are

what might be called very condors he says the second objection agnostics

we really don't know all this absolute expressing itself maybe maybe not who knows all

we know is this life and try to make the best of this life somehow muddle through try to you know make hay while

what make hay while the sun is shining yes while the Sun shines Vaikunta says this position has a great flaw the flaw is this it says to take life - the ideal component the moment

we have a life moment

we are here all of us

we seek to transcend it

we want more

we want

we want something transcending this world

we want God Nirvana moksha transcendence fulfillment the moment

we have something

we seek to overflow life overflows it

so this ideal component which has been therefrom among immemorial times from the primitive societies up to modern times in all our religion of spirituality or idealism agnosticism seems to say that just take the material aspect of life,

just the commonplace aspect of life and leave out all of that that's a very limited point early it might satisfy you it will not satisfy the next person why religion or spirituality scientific quest all of them seek to go beyond

what

we already have how can you say that this much only is life

so agnosticism has this great great defect it takes a very limited snapshot of life and leaves out there it cannot fulfill your heart you will go beyond it

what is beyond it the quest for freedom beyond Maya it has always been there something within us says not this Nathan 80 there is something higher than this freedom Vivekananda says that in the most primitive of religions when you have all this deity is the God of Thunder the God of Sun or the rain,

we have these ideas these gods who are these gods that personified ideas of our freedom I cannot do these things I am subject to death disease and hunger here is a God who is free of these things beautiful perfect immortal the polytheistic religions began that way with multiple multiple manifestations of our conception of freedom freedom from Maya as religion advanced

we came to the idea of one ultimate reality beyond Maya this ultimate reality beyond Maya being time-space and causation who creates this entire universe this is the god of the monotheistic religions that one God the great insight that the religions in The Middle East had and the Abrahamic religions that there is one God that one ultimate reality rules over this entire universe beyond this the universe and there be monotheistic religions stopped whether it's the Jehovah of the Jews or the Father in heaven or Allah or the theistic religions in India with Vishnu or the Divine Mother or Shiva but Vedanta begins there

we kind of said that's the beginning of a hunter that is,

in fact,

dualistic Vedanta Vedanta goes further that God who's beyond time-space and causation is also within the time space and causation as the imminent reality of this entire universe everywhere in this universe is that one react to one reality within all beings in and through all these existences an imminent god transcendent and imminent god every sarvam Calvin Ambrym all this is indeed that divinity Spinoza as God the great philosopher 17th century Spinoza Einstein here,

by the way,

I mentioned Rebecca Goldstein,

she's one of the leading authorities on Spinoza

so she in In her book in a talk she mentioned Einstein,

in fact,

Einstein said here in Princeton he was here he said the only God I believe in is Espinoza's God the God who reveals himself through the orderly workings of the universe as this universe,

not the God who concerns himself with the doings of mortal man and then he wrote a poem Einstein wrote it's available if you see Einstein's poem on Spinoza full love,

he says this holy man he says to an admiration of Spinoza Spinoza is God a pantheistic a little bit of injustice to P no static of Spinoza to call him pantheistic pan and T stick would be a more precise word but anyway God has this entire universe as appearing at this universe and yet this is not non-dualism all this is brahman if you literally take it

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