Avadhūta Gītā Retreat | Session 1| Swami Sarvapriyananda · Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda · Radar

Listening, Truth, and Spiritual Transformation1:48 – 5:26

SarvapriyanandaHost

1:48

One might say, "What is the use of just listening?" I mean, that might be a beginning, but that's-- isn't it, um, just the beginning, there's more to come? No, no, no.

SarvapriyanandaHost

1:56

The listening itself is the greatest thing.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:00

Everything that follows will come from this listening because of the special nature of these teachings.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:06

All other teachings in the spiritual path, um, they require practice after that teaching.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:14

Here, the teaching itself is the practice.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:16

The listening itself is the practice.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:18

[speaking Sanskrit] Hearing, reflecting, meditating.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:24

We listen to the truth.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:26

After that, when you listen to the truth, after that, the work is done.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:32

Oh, we will do many things in our lives, no doubt, and many things in spiritual life.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:37

But in a deep sense, the work is done.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:38

The seed has been planted.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:40

Swami Vivekananda used to say that, um, truth is a corrosive substance of infinite power.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:49

Truth is a corrosive substance of infinite power.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:53

Wherever it falls, it will not stop working.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:55

It will keep on working.

SarvapriyanandaHost

2:57

So whether if we cooperate with the working, if we pay attention to it, internalize it, try to live it, most importantly, try to live according to it, the, it'll be much faster.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:08

If you don't cooperate with it, if you don't try to live accordingly, if you don't reflect upon it, if you do not continue with it, it'll be slower, but it is still unstoppable.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:20

That is why it is the great grace of God to listen.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:25

The very fact that we are listening to this truth, this is the rainbow at the end of the storm.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:33

What does the rainbow s- signify? That the clouds are gone, uh, uh, that, uh, the storm is over.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:41

There won't be any more rain and storm.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:44

Lifetime after lifetime, we have endured the storms of samsara.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:48

This rainbow has appeared, signifying that it's coming to an end, that freedom is close by.

SarvapriyanandaHost

3:57

Cooperate with it.