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Swami Sarvapriyananda at IITK - "Who Am I?" according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1

Vivekananda Samiti, IIT Kanpur · 6.2M views · 2014-04-30 · 1:27:07

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A lecture by Swami Sarvapriyananda at IIT Kanpur on the Mandukya Upanishad and the question 'Who am I?'. It explains the four states of consciousness in Advaita Vedanta.

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Recommended in threads about consciousness and reality as a clear exposition of the Vedantic view of waking, dreaming and deep sleep.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

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croh · 2022-04 · Recommendation

I found asian philosophies very interesting in this regard. There is an interesting Hindu philosophy about 4 states - awake, sleep, dream and turiya. In below video, lecturer explained them very beautifully. [VIDEO] Also you might enjoy Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid where author tried to explain self-referential systems. If you pick up any interest in asian philosophies, try [LINK] and [LINK]

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ivan_ah · 2021-03 · Recommendation

I'm not sure if it is a "proof" of any sort, but I find the ideas in the माण्डूक्य उपनिषद् (Mandukya Upanishad [LINK] ) to be a very interesting point of view. This short text discusses the theory of four states of consciousness: Waking \ Dreaming > Turiya ≝ pure consciousness illuminating these Deep dreamless sleep / These two lectures were very good: - [VIDEO] - [LINK] And you can read the original text here: [LINK]

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braindead_in · 2020-05 · Reference

The entropic brain hypothesis reminds me of the Mandukya Upanishad. I or Ego is neither the waking state, neither the sleep state and nor the dream state, but the one from all these states emanate from. [VIDEO]

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