The Ultimate Nature of Things

Sam speaks with Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Hindu monk and Minister of the Vedanta Society of New York. They discuss Sarvapriyananda’s spiritual background, including his early influences; longstanding doctrinal debates and commonalities among certain Hindu and Buddhist non-dual traditions; varying interpretations of “the self,” and its illusoriness; different methods for mitigating psychological suffering; making phenomenological vs. metaphysical claims; mystical and philosophical approaches to the hard problem of consciousness; and other topics.