Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | June 15th, 2025

Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on June 15th, 2025.

List of questions with timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:48 - What is the difference between the soul and awareness?

10:39 - How do we break the link between the real and reflected consciousness? 

27:44 - How is knowledge different from experience?

36:02 - Is enlightenment obtained during meditation or while interacting with the world?

49:38 - Is artificial super-intelligence a feasibility?  Could this lead to the end of humanity?

59:27 - Can we design a generalized template for Karma?  How can I explain it to my grandchildren?

01:05:55 - Doesn't the "consciousness wave" referred to in Buddhism imply duality?

01:09:27 - What is the difference between realization that the dream is unreal within the dream (lucid dreaming) vs. in the waking world?