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Swami Sarvapriyananda conducts a Q&A after a discourse on the topic of “No Mind” (Based on Mandukya Karika). List of Questions: 0:31 -- How can we focus our minds (esp. in environments filled with distractions)? 11:30 -- We have the sense that we have free will, but it is not clear whether we actually possess free will, or it is just a delusion of the mind. The opposite of free will is determinism. So which is it? 15:47 -- Is the feeling of having free will deterministic or indeterminate? 16:19 -- Brahman/God's intent is indeterminable? 17:24 -- Our minds are limited by time, space (and causation). Brahman is beyond these three. With this in mind, at what level (or in what way) can we conceptualize Brahman? 21:20 -- How are we all-pervading as Brahman/Consciousness? 28:20 -- Why do we search for other alternative ways to think about God when we already have simple ways given by great souls/teachers such as Sri Ramakrishna? 31:39 -- Is Pure Consciousness (Satchidananda, Brahman) aware of change, aware of suffering etc., and if so, how is it that It does not change, and/or suffer? 37:16 -- If Sri Ramakrishna was himself an Avatar (incarnation of God), why did he beg and cry to see God in the form of Mother Kali? 38:55 -- The paradox of the Avatar (Incarnation). Is the Incarnation God or man? 39:48 -- In the story of the Princess of Kashi, the Prince realized that there is no Princess of Kashi, so there is no question of marrying the Princess of Kashi, but the desire for marriage still remained. That desire was not vanquished. Please explain. 42:30 -- In Sri Ramakrishna's answer to M's question ""How can I concentrate my mind (on God),"" the third point was discrimination (""Viveka"") It is interesting to note that Ramakrishna doesn't say discriminate between the Real and the Unreal (""Satya"" and ""Mithya""), but instead says to discriminate between the Eternal and the non-Eternal (""Nitya"" and ""Anitya""). Explanation/reasons for this? 45:46 -- What is the relationship between ""Eternal"" and ""non-Eternal"" on the one hand, and ""real"" and ""false"" on the other? How do you make the jump? "
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