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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

1 | On Bhagavad Gita | The backdrop of an eternal warfield dialogue

Bhagavad Gita presents the most puzzling interactional human life, enlightening and enriching you with the knowledge, skills and merits to face and overcome interactional challenges, unhurt and unaffected.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

2 | On Bhagavad Gita | Truthful Introspection – The source of strength in any situation

The Dharmakshetra aggravated Duryodhana’s wickedness and made him behave condescendingly to his elders while Arjuna, though gravely aggrieved, was led to a deep spiritual enquiry which crowned him with supreme inner enlightenment.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

3 | On Bhagavad Gita | With Equanimity float in the Sukha-duhkha world

All the interactions senses have with the world objects do bring about only the sukha-duhkha dvandvas, nothing more or different. When you are able to meet and dissolve the sukha-duhkhas, you can deal with the world as a whole, in full. Is this not a clear, inner victory over the world?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

4 | On Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gita, the Universal Message

Dear and blessed souls: Harih Om Tat Sat. Krishna continues the discussion: “Whoever is not afflicted, assailed or dislodged by these sukha-duhkhas, O, great Arjuna,...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

A Prelude to ‘On Bhagavad Gita’ Series

This is a message from Poojya Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha to devotees at the start of the 'On Bhagavad Gita' monthly letter series , in which he will be discussing the great ‘Administrative Treasure Trove’ Bhagavad Gita.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Advice to an Aspiring Professional

To have appeal is verily to possess merits that will touch others’ intelligence. To lead people is verily to lead the minds and intelligence of others. Thus, the knowledge exposure is something extremely valuable and dear. In the period to follow, enhance your vision, sensibility and creative thinking

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Ambition for Material Success

Moderation is the watchword for every one of you. Krishna says the Yoga of Bhagavad Gita will become relevant and effective, provided we are moderate. Eat moderately, sleep moderately, exert moderately, listen to moderately and speak moderately.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Bhagavad Gita to overcome overwhelming emotions

Nourishment for intelligence is Knowledge, for mind is emotions. So, you must develop good emotions – love, sympathy, sacrifice – for the mind, and elevate your intelligence with greater and greater Knowledge.

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.

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 ||

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.

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?”

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Dealing with Doubt

Doubt is nothing new. Krishna made Arjuna introspect over his doubt and grief and automatically the doubt vanished.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Death and Deathlessness

All sorrow, confusion and difficulties about death will vanish when the mind and intelligence reflect upon the supreme Truth of immortality of the Soul

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.

Destiny Defined

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

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.

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.

Face to Face

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

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

From Plurality to Oneness

Purify your mind. Sublimate your mind. Understand that the mind, in ultimate analysis, is the very Self. The power of the Self is identical with the power of the supreme Lord.

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?

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Handling difficult interactions

Why does interaction become difficult at times? It is because of raga-dvesha (likes and dislikes). We like some people and are happy to be with them. Some we don’t like, so we do not want to interact with them.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Handling your afflicted mind

The interaction you have in life will also be with the good and bad, and the consequences will definitely be experienced by you. Rather than worrying about who is good and who is bad, particularly who is bad – because the ‘bad’ makes you suffer – why don’t you focus on the important factor that “it is I who suffer”?

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.

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.

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Humility

One day, during the early morning darshan, a brahmachārin came and prostrated at his feet. Apparently, he was one of the most intelligent students learning Sanskrit from Maharaj Ji. The brahmachārin mentioned that he had been listening to the Ramayana Katha of the famous exponent, held in the Ashram premises.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Influence of Gunas–Are we helpless?

Everything is the effect of guṇas. Work, cessation, dream, sleep, wakefulness — all. But within these, the guṇas alone make you think, enquire, seek etc. See all as guṇas and flow with them. Do when you feel like doing. Stop and leave when you feel so. Be natural.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

King’s Temple and Cobbler’s Cottage

This is India. This is our heredity and legacy. We have always stood for propriety, ethics and righteousness. We cannot behave in any manner we like. There should be dignity and elegance in whatever we do.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mind, meditation and the goal

It is only to inculcate purity that all the religious and spiritual practices and disciplines have been evolved. Through all these practices, once purity is attained, meditational absorption will become easy and spontaneous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Ma Gurupriya

Our True Nature

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

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Post-Meditative Sadhana

For Jnana, meditation is a necessary step. But, for getting the Knowledge established, to become a Jnanin, the seeker has to outlive meditation and practise a continuous and wholesome sadhana.

Ma Gurupriya

Purity of Mind

A Mahatma had a rich disciple who, in spite of repeated advice of the Guru, would make no effort to purify his heart and mind. But at the same time, the disciple used to pester the Guru for bestowing on him Brahma- jnāna (knowledge of Truth – Brahman).

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Real Education

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

Ma Gurupriya

Real Prasāda

Throughout the day, during satsangs, Maharaj Ji, through his words, interactions and bhāva, was distributing as ‘prasāda’ manifest lessons of love, humility, renunciation and equal-vision. It was for us seekers to pick up these treasures and enrich ourselves.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Realizing the Atma

The existence of the Atma is always absolute. Its manner of expression includes that which you call ‘the world’. This is the truth. But this truth will remain a mystery until the seeker’s mind becomes crystal clear, desire-free and stable under all conditions. The least trace of impurity any time will impair his vision

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Sādhana in Gurusannidhi

Through the Teacher’s responses to various situations, we get a touch of his vision – his love and his dispassion. In receiving his comments and accepting the corrections, our ego gets sublimated. In working with the co-disciples and accommodating others lovingly as the Guru does, our minds expand.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Science and Brahma Vidya

Swami Nirviseshananda said: “I don’t know of a time when my mind was not given to seeking the Truth. In that quest I have found scientific pursuit and spiritual sadhana always in complementary role – each strengthening and refining the other. Both physics and spiritual seeking used to give me the sublimity of unification and expansion, the joy of arriving at greater and greater harmony underlying the world variety.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Science and Spirituality

In spirituality the ‘I’ in us, the inmost Truth of our being, is finally discovered as God. So, spiritual sadhana starts when we stop looking outside and start looking within to find out “Who am I”.

SIRD Malaysia’s Initiative – to Bring Self-Knowledge to Youngsters

– Unnikrishnan Menon, Subashini Raghavan, Sithaletchumi Ramamurthi Under Poojya Swamiji’s guidance, we at SIRD have come to appreciate the immense potential within ourselves and others....

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Soothing a Troubled Mind

An enlightening, moving and heart-warming correspondence between Nutan Swamiji and a young girl, which addresses the difficulties of many intellectuals.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Students–Set right your attitude

So, do not lose heart or make any room for disappointment. Be strengthened and enlightened more and more, through everything that comes. With that gain, go forward. You have my blessings for right growth and fulfilment. The world is wide and extensive. You will have what you rightly deserve and in the hands of which you will find elevation and fulfilment. Be sure.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Success due to God or myself

When there is a close harmony between the knowing intelligence and the willful mind, equally between the external body and senses, good and effective actions proceed and they bring about the desired outcome. Otherwise not. Whether you believe in God or not, does not matter. What is required is a conscientious striving.

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.

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 ||

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 ||

The First Dāna-satram in SIRD Malaysia

– Veelayudan Nair [Note: Veelayudan Nair is Secretary of SIRD Malaysia and was appointed overall coordinator for this social welfare programme.] Call to Action Poojya...

The Great one

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Real Meaning of Moksha

Moksha is a clarity, a freedom that you need from whatever troubles you have now. If there is no trouble, you don’t need moksha.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Right Focus

Do not then look at thoughts or memories as disturbances, unfriendly or alien. Let them come or not, mind remains as Consciousness alone. Legs are legs whether they walk or run or sit. Think of this truth and allow all the mind-work to be on

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: ||

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Theory of rebirth?

Birth and rebirth are tentative propositions, one visible and the other invisible, to help man think about continuity of existence. When his sense of enquiry grows and deepens, this continuity will be probed, dissected as it were, to take him to the nonobject, the Subject entity,

They need a childhood

They were fighting with each other for a vantage area near the compound wall to warm up themselves in the sunlight. Their clothes were anything to write about except for the folded torn saris wrapped around their tiny thin bodies, tied at the neck and made into a hood.

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.

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 ||

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Understanding Death

Can you forestall your own death, and the resultant loss to your children? Why then construe unnecessary misery in what, through your father's death, has befallen your lot? Better wisdom lies in assimilating the event, understanding it in its own place, and developing a larger, deeper and higher mind and emotions.

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.

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

What gives courage and confidence

For gaining courage in increasing and resourceful measures, you have to look, however, to your own within. Break through the mortal sheaths of your body. Rise above the mind-sheath. Penetrate the intellectual one also.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

What is Dharma?

The power that sustains your life in good and bad, in prosperity and adversity, in success and failure, is called dharma.

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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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

1 | On Bhagavad Gita | The backdrop of an eternal warfield dialogue

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

2 | On Bhagavad Gita | Truthful Introspection – The source of strength in any situation

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

3 | On Bhagavad Gita | With Equanimity float in the Sukha-duhkha world

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

4 | On Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gita, the Universal Message

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

A Prelude to ‘On Bhagavad Gita’ Series

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Advice to an Aspiring Professional

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

All challenges are opportunities for growth

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Ambition for Material Success

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Bhagavad Gita for Personality Transformation

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Bhagavad Gita to overcome overwhelming emotions

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Bondage and Liberation

Ma Gurupriya

Contentment is in the Mind

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Coping with Rejection

Ma Gurupriya

Dealing with challenges effectively

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Dealing with Doubt

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Death and Deathlessness

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Desirelessness

Destiny Defined

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Divinity in Everything

Ma Gurupriya

Equanimity – The Key to Yoga

Face to Face

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

From External God to our own Mind

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

From Plurality to Oneness

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Fulfillment

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Gratefulness

Ma Gurupriya

Handling difficult interactions