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Ma Gurupriya

The path to Peace and Confidence

Bring the message of Bhagavad Gita into your lives. One should not just study Bhagavad Gita; one must live it.

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Ma Gurupriya

Permanent happiness

When the intelligence is applied, it throws light into the situations, showing us that there is no permanent happiness in anything of the world.

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Ma Gurupriya

Dealing with challenges effectively

When we have challenges, when we are in trouble, we do not think of God. We brood and complain and say, “Why me?”

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Ma Gurupriya

Spirituality and Science—Is there a conflict?

From the time I stepped onto this path, there was a new meaning in my life.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Divinity in Everything

If the earth is divine, then whatever has grown on the earth is also divine, including our own body. Instead of realizing this divinity which is already there in us and around us, we construct temples to install God there.

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Ma Gurupriya

The Parting Instructions

Expectations must become extinct. Liberation is vāsanā-tānavam—extinction of desires. Desires will not fall the way you want, but will fall. Recognize the place for extinction of desires, and allow them to settle.

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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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Most Empowering Experience

The Experiential Vedanta program, in my earnest opinion, has the unique and divine ability in the participant-seeker to trigger a sublime process of internal enhancement, empowerment, and fulfillment.

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Ma Gurupriya

Contentment is in the Mind

वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं दुकूलै:सम इव परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेष: ।स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान् को दरिद्र: ।। vayamiha parituṣṭā valkalaistvaṁ dukūlaiḥ sama iva paritoṣo nirviśeṣo viśeṣaḥ |sa tu bhavatu daridro yasya tṛṣṇā viśālā manasi ca parituṣṭe ko'rthavān ko daridraḥ ||

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Ma Gurupriya

The Bliss of Non-Expectation

निष्किंञ्चना मय्यनुरक्तचेतसः शान्ता महान्तोऽखिलजीववत्सलाः। कामैरनालब्धधियो जुषन्ति यत् तन्नैरपेक्ष्यं न विदुः सुखं मम ।। niṣkiṁncanā mayyanuraktacetasaḥ śāntā mahānto'khilajīvavatsalāḥ| kāmairanālabdhadhiyo juṣanti yat tannairapekṣyaṁ na viduḥ sukhaṁ mama ||

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Ma Gurupriya

The Cause of Happiness and Misery

नायं जनो मे सुखदुःखहेतु र्न देवतात्मा ग्रहकर्मकालाः। मनः परं कारणमामनन्ति संसारचक्रं परिवर्तयेद्यत्।। nāyaṁ jano me sukha-duḥkha-hetur-na devatātmā graha-karma-kālāḥ | manaḥ paraṁ kāraṇam-āmananti saṁsāra-cakraṁ parivartayed-yat ||

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Ma Gurupriya

Our True Nature

आकाशवल्लेपविदूरगोहं
आदित्यवद्भास्यविलक्षणोऽहम् ।
अहार्यवन्नित्यविनिश्चलोऽहं
अम्भोधिवत्पारविवर्जितोऽहम् ।।
ākāśavallepavidūrago'haṁ
ādityavadbhāsyavilakṣaṇo'ham |
ahāryavannityaviniścalo'haṁ
ambhodhivatpāravivarjito'ham ||

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Ma Gurupriya

The State of Fullness

पूर्णे मनसि संपूर्णं जगत्सर्वं सुधाद्रवैः।
उपानद्-गूढपादस्य ननु चर्मास्तृतैव भूः ॥
pūrṇe manasi sampūrṇaṃ jagat-sarvaṃ sudhādravai: |
upānad-gūḍhapādasya nanu carmāstṛtaiva bhū: ||

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Ma Gurupriya

The Indweller who Enlivens our Body, Mind and Intelligence

Ma tells us how we should be grateful to the Universal Lord who being present in our heart enlivens our entire being – the body, mind and the intelligence; how, remembering this great Truth, we should prostrate at His holy feet in reverence and gratitude.

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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

True Purpose of Religion and Spirituality

Let your focus be on these: Expansion of the mind; elevation of your attitude; and excellence in action. When all these three are blended together, it becomes a truly transformed personality – a new personality. This is the true purpose of religion and spirituality.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Sanskrit–Our Vibrant Glorious heritage

The real monuments of India’s ancient cultural heritage are the Vedas, Epics and other texts constituting the vast Sanskrit literature bequeathed to us through generations. It is because of the fact that these numerous scriptural compositions were composed in Sanskrit, the most scientific and refined language in the world, that we are still able to understand them with the same clarity and emphasis, as it was thousands of years ago.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Power Within

You carry an infinitely potent mind. Never fail to recognize this great potency of the mind. We call it mind, but actually it is a projection or expression of the Self, the Supreme Reality, which has created and which is preserving this great endless Universe

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Our Land and Our Literature

The word ‘Hindu’ is formed by the first letter of Himalayas (Hi) and the second letter of Indu (ndu) sarovara (lake). On the north we are sheltered by the Himalayas. On the other three sides we are encircled by the sea. This wonderful place called Hindusthana, we hold, is built by God (deva-nirmitam desham).

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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

Obstinacy

Any obstinate note is a killing factor! It takes away peace; it takes away the blessedness; it takes away health; it destroys inner wealth; it destroys the person.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Gratefulness

When we look at the human civilization in this comprehensive way, we understand how gratefulness as a quality will enrich human life in ample measure.

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Ma Gurupriya

Equanimity – The Key to Yoga

For the worldly-minded, siddhi and asiddhi relate to worldly efforts. For the seeker, these relate to his sadhana. Equanimity applies to both alike. So, be indifferent or harmonious, and carry on.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The mystery called Mind

Mind can also be said to be something alien to the Soul, which veils the latter in a mysterious manner. It is all a question of which description suits your taste and becomes comprehensible for you

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

From External God to our own Mind

The real purpose of all religious as well as spiritual practices is to purify and transform our own mind.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mind is the source of everything

If you are able to sublimate desire, intolerance and fear, the mind becomes most flexible, most refined and delightful. It is a very, very simple process.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Why Ochre robes?

This colour also represents earth. Earlier, Sannyasins used to dye their cloth with a special ochre coloured earth called ‘Geri-mitti’.

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Ma Gurupriya

Real Education

Apply intelligence and also be thoughtful and introspective. Assess your own thoughts, views, speech and action. Never be selfish.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Watching your thoughts

"Watching the thoughts" means witnessing them come and go without getting involved in them. Normally we are always getting involved in the current thought. When depressing or happy thoughts arise, we "become depressed or happy". Witnessing means we have to see the happy thoughts, depressing thoughts, without becoming happy or depressed.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Qualities in Bhagavad Gita

All these qualities basically represent a Knower, call him/her sthita-dhee or bhakta or Jnānee or Gunāteeta.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

How to recognise a Guru?

A time comes in the life of a serious seeker, when he eagerly seeks the ultimate and feels the need for one path guided by one Guru. Holding on to one is important in making the divergent mind convergent.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The truth about Samādhi

To think that the practice of samādhi is the finale in spiritual life is wrong. The man of perfection is not one who is permanently immersed in samādhi. Even Samādhi is a state or avastha.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Introspection and emotional refinement

Whatever you do, wherever you are, you can pursue constant introspectional sadhana of refinement and purification. In fact it should be so.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Fulfillment

Fulfillment will be had when the mind is properly treated to become pure and the hindrances to fulfillment are removed. And, when the mind is properly developed to have fulfillment, will it need any of these external objects, situations or possessions?

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Ma Gurupriya

Moderation-A Great Lesson

Suppose you have a little depression or disinterestedness today – what of that? Let it remain. Be at home even with that. Know that as it has come in so also will it pass off. If you keep this elevated attitude, soon you will find that the depressive moods will become less frequent.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Importance of Knowing our Real Identity

The spiritual thinkers of India realized that the only way to sustain a civilization on the auspicious path, was to keep people anchored to their own inmost Self.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Vairāgya

Vairāgya makes our mind free of possessiveness and selfishness. It liberates us from the fear of losing what we like and facing what we dislike, from preferential clinging and prejudicial intolerance.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Desirelessness

We are born with an insufficiency or lack that makes us look for happiness. We are born with the delusion that something from the world will fulfil that lack, will make us happy.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Bondage and Liberation

Many of you get confused about what in us gets liberated. My reply is, whichever part in you now feels bound, will start feeling the absence of bondage.

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Bhagavad Gita for Personality Transformation

Right from birth, we are slave to our attraction and repulsion towards worldly objects and situations. Our mind constantly undergoes elation, depression, and agitation, depending on whether the objective situation we face is to our liking or disliking. We are fearful of losing what we like and facing what we dislike. Bhagavadgeeta wants us to transform this slavery into mastery by cultivating the “Yoga” attitude.

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Destiny Defined

Why drop thy career? Why now, at this age?”They’ve heard not the Promise, proclaimed by my Sage.

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Face to Face

In him a brother I saw, My Best friend I trust, He showed me my Face

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Surrender

All I could feel was deep, deep calm, Because I knew you were with me, within me,Filling me with joy and bliss. At last I could surrender.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

All challenges are opportunities for growth

If the insight or ambition fostered earlier does not fit in with the present situation, all that is called for is a patient re-examination of your own mind and its outlook, and then a timely correction and re-orientation, by which your mind will survive with what is the best and outstanding in it.

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The Great one

Strain your ears, you’ll catch the tune; I tell you, the Great one has come!

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