745. Swami Sarvapriyananda - Enlightenment, AI, and Advaita Vedanta

About this episode

Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses enlightenment, artificial intelligence, and the principles of Advaita Vedanta.

Swami Sarvapriyananda has been the Minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York since January 2017. He joined the Ramakrishna Math in 1994 and received sannyasa in 2004. He served as an acharya (teacher) of the monastic probationers’ training center at Belur Math, India. He also served in various capacities in different educational institutes of the Ramakrishna Mission in India and as the Assistant Minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. During 2019-2020 he was a Nagral Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. Swami Sarvapriyananda is a well-known speaker on Vedanta and his talks are extremely popular globally via the internet. He has been a speaker on various prestigious forums such as TEDx, SAND, Google Talk etc. He has also been invited to speak at several universities across the world, including Harvard University. The swami has engaged in dialogue with many eminent thinkers such as Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira, Rick Archer, David Chalmers and Sam Harris. He has played a prominent role in organizing and participating in various interfaith panels and seminars, including speaking at the World Parliament of Religions in Toronto in 2018, and at…

People in this episode

Host: Rick Archer

Guest: Swami Sarvapriyananda

Topics covered

• Enlightenment
• AI
• Advaita Vedanta
• spirituality
• interfaith dialogue

Keywords

• Vedanta
• spirituality
• enlightenment
• AI
• interfaith dialogue
• Ramakrishna
• Harvard

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vedanta Society of New York, Ramakrishna Math, Harvard Divinity School, Vedanta Society of Southern California, TEDx, SAND, Google Talk, Harvard University, World Parliament of Religions

Places: Toronto, New York

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