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    “Teach the children to course through difficulties and unpleasant situations boldly, without getting upset.” - Nutan Swamiji

    Articles (8)

    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Higher Joy

    How to give children a taste of a liberal mindset, a value-oriented life? Perhaps stories will help them understand the real taste of human values. Of course, thereafter they have to live the values to get established in them.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    True Relationship

    गुरुर्न स स्यात्स्वजनो न स स्यात्पिता
    न स स्याज्जननी न सा स्यात् ।
     दैवं न तत्स्यान्न पतिश्च स स्यान्न
     मोचयेद्यः समुपेतमृत्युम् ॥
     gururna sa syāt–svajano na sa syāt–pitā
     na sa syājjananī na sā syāt |
     daivaṁ na tatsyān–na patiśca sa syān–na
     mocayedyaḥ samupeta–mṛtyum ||

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    The Gurukula Training

    I think all should share with their children such instances and thoughts as will make them confident, bold and adventurous. Mind has no limit. If at all, sky is its limit.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Understanding Ephemerality of Relationships

    Dear son, understand that embodiment itself is transitory. And all the relationships are also transitory. Everyone and everything is to be left – even the body in which you live, and for the sake of which you have courted all the relationships! So, do not worry any more about family, people and the like. You have done whatever they needed and was possible for you.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Coping with Rejection

    Give everyone the freedom to like or to dislike you. But inwardly, in your heart, like one and all. Let there be no dislike-feeling within you towards others. Mind should make a provision for all kinds of people, including those who dislike you.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    How to Inculcate Values in Children?

    While feeding the child, have the thought that the feed should instill in him good and sustainable health and inner stimulations. Whichever sense-organ of the child responds, through that provide the most sublime and elevating sensation.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Old Age and Mental Health

    You should develop an austere temper as a result of which, even under physical sickness – of course, you should give proper medical attention to it – your mind is not subdued by it. Let not any physical sickness paralyse or weaken your spiritual mind. If the body suffers from ill-health attend to the physical condition medically, but for most part rely on the virtue of your mind – its strength and inspiration.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Motherhood enriched by Detachment

    Every look of yours, thought, attitude and aim, must be soaked in this note of detachment. See whether it is so, and improve every time. When the child grows, then also tell him about your attitude and bring him up in that light. The child is yours and you can mould him as you wish.

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