Swami Sarvapriyananda'a only flaw: not embracing mysticism.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a gem and the closest thing to Swami Vivekananda the world has today.

That said, he and we need to embrace mysticism and metaphysics. He's the head of the Ramakrishna mission, and Swami Ramakrishna's life was no less than Harry Potter's.

Separating the mysticism from his teachings is like separating all practical experiments from the work of a scientist. And while mystical experiences are not the end goal according realized mystics themselves, they provide a strong reason to believe for the fence-sitters between spirituality and atheism/materialism. You can't prove Brahman is the ultimate reality without supernatural evidences that thwart materialism.

I haven't watched every single video of Swami SP's, so forgive me and enlighten me if this claim is intrue. I will happily apologize.

But I've seen him, for a lack of better words, "sucking up to" atheistic neuroscientists like Sam Harris in podcasts to retrofit vedanta into their world view. IMO, he should have the stance that "my guy knew a lot more about the world than you guys do. But you're free to be skeptical and we can still have a healthy conversation."

I saw a podcast of Krishna Das where he, despite being a foreigner alive today, spoke openly about the supernatural powers of Neem Karoli Baba. Why can't we?