Being without Becoming | Swami Anubhavananda Saraswati · Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda · Radar

Knowledge vs. Action & The Fall into Becoming3:34 – 10:49

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

3:34

[laughs] See? Knowledge does not create anything.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

3:45

That knowledge which creates is not spiritual life.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

3:52

That knowledge which reveals is the spiritual life.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

3:57

See? For example, we are told, if you, uh, chant Gayatri mantra for maybe very little, 2400,000 times- [laughs] ...

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:17

then you will realize.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:20

What will you realize? "Hey, I wasted my life." [laughs] See? So only listening that if you chant this mantra for so many year, this will happen.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:37

So this knowledge demands a follow-up action.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:42

Only by listening, nothing will happen.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:45

Now the second thing.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:47

Now, those of you or those of us who know, now this is Bhagwan Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

4:58

Now what you have to do? [laughs] Nothing.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:04

But those of us who do not know, he will have to ask, "Hey, who is that?" So two types of knowledges.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:15

One, yoga is that which demands follow-up action.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:22

Second yoga is that which doesn't demand follow-up action.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:28

Now, next step.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:32

Man is being.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:37

He becomes husband.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:42

So when the being falls, that fallen being is called as becoming.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

5:53

See? [laughs] By birth, fortunately, nobody is a husband.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:02

By birth, we are man or woman.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:07

But after we are born, because we do not know that we are divine, whether we want or we don't want, we are divine.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:23

Whether we know or we don't know, we are divine.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:29

Because we do not recognize our own divine nature, then we like to add something.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:39

And why this happens? Because basic error in our life.

Swami AnubhavanandaGuest

6:45

We are all seeking happiness.