Swami Sarvapriyananda

Likely the speaker of the cold-open clip about a lion in a dream: inside the dream there's no logical answer to where the lion came from, because the real answer is to wake up. The clip sets up the theme that analytical questioning can go on forever without reaching truth.

Where it appears 2

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  how fear disguises as logicEp 12 · with Ian Coll
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  love has no dark sideEp 8 · with Ma Anand Sheela

  Monk of the Ramakrishna Order who heads the Vedanta Society of New York in Manhattan. Tamir learned the story of the Princess of Kashi from him.

Connections

Words spoken

• There's only the question and no answer. On the side of those who are enlightened, they don't seem to ask this question. They have the answer, but not the question.Swami Sarvapriyananda · Ep 12 · 1:25

Stories told

• The lion in the dreamSwami Sarvapriyananda · Ep 12 · 0:52

  In the cold-open clip, a teacher asks where a lion chasing you in a dream came from. The true answer is that there is no lion: wake up. If you insist on an answer inside the dream, you get…

Member of

• Vedanta Society of New York

Related

• Advaita Vedanta

Referenced by

• The Princess of Kashi