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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Focussing on thinker – not thoughts

If you can reach and understand the source, it will mean a total revolution in your life.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Sublimating fearful & inauspicious thoughts

Do not ever wrestle or fight with any kind of undesirable imaginations or thoughts. Understand that your mind or mind-substance is far ‘subtler’ and permeating than ‘space’.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

On sūrya namaskāra

Any kind of a process wherein the standing body is brought flat on the ground is very good for the body immediately, and the mind subsequently.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Blind customs and practices

Your job is not to pass judgement on faiths and beliefs of others, but to see how harmoniously you can mingle in the complex society.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

How to Acquire Virtues

You have to provide nutrients to the mind and intelligence. When you provide the mental, intelligential and spiritual nutrients, the mind has to assimilate them. This process of assimilation depends on your sincerity, your interest and your dedication.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Lack of Openness – Its Fatal Consequences

We must be able to talk about this to others and also to our own children boldly and openly. This Atma-bala is necessary and through bhakti, and also through saadhana, you should develop it.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Blame the Sinful Act – Not the Sinner

You may dislike and disapprove of bad. But you cannot dislike and disapprove of people, even if they have dislikeable qualities.

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Ma Gurupriya

The Most Delightful Adventure

Always keep a beautiful picture of yourself in your mind. Full of all good qualities, like love, sympathy, sacrifice, patience, tolerance, perseverance, endurance, hope, confidence, fearlessness, truthfulness, straightforwardness, transparence, non-laziness, calmness, peace, joy and so on ..

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Spirituality – The Ultimate ‘Religion’ of Man

The truth being about our own Self, a mere theoretical knowledge either from the scriptures or from lectures will not be sufficient. We must discover the truth of our identity ourselves. We must live the truth.

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Ma Gurupriya

My School & the Eternal School

Swamiji slowly exposed me to the enormous potentials of the mind. He taught me how the mind can handle and overcome every difficult emotion and situation and remain stable. Gradually he led me onto the path of discovering one’s real identity, the knowledge of which alone enables one to remain unaffected in the face of all stress and adversities.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Noble Character – an Asset to be Cultivated

Cultivate the habit of doing everything, when told just once. It should not be necessary to tell you anything more than once. Such sensitiveness and response makes one worthy, skillful.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Be Relaxed and Fearless

Now and then have a break from your study sessions. Come out of your room or place of study and have some good diversion – talk to your relatives in a friendly manner, with interest. Laugh or weep when you get an occasion to do so. By both, your system will get the needed relaxation and will be strengthened and purified.

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22 | On Bhagavad Gita | Significance of sensory regulation

The word ‘yuktaḥ’ refers to one whose senses, mind and intelligence are integrated with the blissful Self, making his whole personality and its interaction with...

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

21 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be adorned by inner placidity

Attraction and repulsion arising in the mind are mind’s own creations. Mind has full freedom not to be attracted and repelled. It is here that...

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

20 | On Bhagavad Gita | Truthful introspection leads to inner mastery

The entire spiritual pursuit and perfection rest upon the fusion of the emotional mind with the rational intelligence. For a discriminating thinker, the whole subject...

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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....

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

19 | On Bhagavad Gita | Sthita-prajna and Sthita-dhee

The dream is inside the body. It is individualistic in nature. But wakefulness is a state, recurring regularly with many together remaining awake alike for...

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

18 | On Bhagavad Gita | Crowning glory of spirituality and yoga

You should read and hear, but only to reflect upon what you have heard and read. By reflection the seeker must become clear about the...

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

17 | On Bhagavad Gita | How to attain dexterity in action?

Does not viveka, therefore, demand that between the short-living and everlasting goals, the discreet mind should choose the everlasting, not the short-living? Is not then one courting inferiority, downfall, if he refuses to accept buddhi-yoga and prefers to stick to the elusive path of desire-based ritualistic and secular actions?

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Collective Sādhanā – Its Spiritual Dimension

While interactional sadhana strengthens, deepens and enhances your individual pursuit, both these are verily enriched and empowered by taking up collective sadhana. Only when there is a collective programme, all of you will come together and join.

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Just For Today

Today is our gift to discover the new riches in our own little world, to explore other lovely interesting paths, to find new potential and new pleasures.

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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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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

Dealing with Doubt

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

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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

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

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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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.

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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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