Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Oct 20th, 2024

Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Oct 20th, 2024. List of questions with timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:15 - What is the importance of earnestness and renunciation to progress in spiritual life.

13:37 - Do we need a Guru, and what is the relationship betwen the Gurua dn teh Advaitic Self?

19:31 - Is consciousness the controller of actions or is it just a witness?

31:09 - How do we go from reflected consciousness to ‘I am Brahman’?

41:17 - How can I cultivate a desire to meditate and to form a genuine enjoyment of the practice?

01:04:21 - How can I overcome doubts in spiritual life?

01:09:45 - How can dream state be considered equivalent to the waking state?