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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

“I am Nothing, I want Nothing” – Poojya Swamiji’s 90th Jayanti Message

Any spiritual institution is founded only on the Guru-bhakti of the founder. It survives only because of Guru-bhakti.

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

10 | On Bhagavad Gita | Knowledge of Self dissolves all grief

In the body of all, the indwelling ‘I’, the Self, is always unkillable. Know that all beings have equally the same single Self, which cannot be acted upon by anything whatever. Therefore, you do not deserve to grieve at all, thinking of death and what death brings about.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

11 | On Bhagavad Gita | Spirituality is not disconnected to life

True spiritual wisdom as well as the instructions on its basis, is not detached from the facts and truths of our life and its purpose. Spirituality as a science and direct experience is in full harmony with one’s life and seeking, to fulfil his ultimate needs and compulsions.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

12 | On Bhagavad Gita | A beautiful formula to be a master of the world

Fostering equality and impartiality towards sukha and duhkha alike is the only option for the wise, to live in this world and move forward steadily and gloriously. Every time you do so, you become more and more spiritual, sublime and expansive. The practice is in the mind, guided by intelligence. But, the benefits are to one’s life as a whole.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

13 | On Bhagavad Gita | Buddhi-Yoga: Spiritual pursuit through activity

The influence intelligence sheds in the mind is marvellous, subtle and deep. Mind can be acted upon by intelligence alone. That is why Krishna highlights buddhi, intelligence, and says it has to become clear, stable and resolute.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

14 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be an Ātmavān – Self-integrated

True seeker should be given to self-restraint, self-regulation and self-harmony. Mind should be under the sovereign, sublime guidance of intelligence. Intelligence should relentlessly reflect upon the blissful Self. This kind of inner attunement and steadfastness in it, makes one verily an Ātmavān.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

15 | On Bhagavad Gita | Act fervently but without Sanga

Gita does not deal with the objective results of actions at all, where the rules and laws of the objective world prevail. Krishna, as well as Vedanta, speaks only about spirituality, the science of inner mind, intelligence and Self. Possession, dispossession, delusion, clarity, enlightenment, etc. are concepts that relate to the inner personality of the human.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

16 | On Bhagavad Gita | Yoga-buddhi leads to inner equilibrium

For a karma- yogi, action is not a mere activity, but a full-fledged sadhana ennobling, elevating and enlightening. When imbued with such a note, action...

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?

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

23 | On Bhagavad Gita | The Oceanic dimension of a Knower

Ordinary people who see only the objects with their senses, do not perceive the truth about objects. The sights do not allow them to grasp...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

24 | On Bhagavad Gita | Experiencing Brahma-nirvana

Do not animals and birds live? Do they have desires like humans have? What about plants, trees and creepers? You cannot attribute desires to them. All of them live; their lineages also continue. They never indulge in desires. Learn the lesson from them and live, move and pursue the natural course of life joyfully, harmoniously, in a fulfilling manner.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

25 | On Bhagavad Gita | Samatva – the essence of Bhagavad Gita

Take away from your mind, O Arjuna, all sense of difference about the spiritual pursuit. It is the mind and intelligence that work in both cases. In Jñāna-niṣṭhā, they become very specific and exclusive. And in Karma-niṣṭhā, their application is broad, including all activities of worldly life. So, remove even the least sense of difference between the two niṣṭhās. For, they have the same emphasis as well as goal. Each will take the seeker to the same spiritual goal of inner fullness, abundance and ecstasy.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

26 | On Bhagavad Gita | Render every act as Yajna

All actions done by us will have to be as Yajña. How to do so? Do everything but without any delusional clinging (saṅga) to the inner psycho-intellectual outcome it brings about. Every act is done aiming to achieve a certain fruition. If such fruition is had or not, the performer’s mind should feel no delusional clinging to what transpires. It is clinging that hinders Yajña. Whatever act is done without clinging verily becomes sacrifice.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

27 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attain Inner Elevation and Expansion through Yajna

To give, means to get back in abundance. As a mirror reflects your face, the good and noble pursuit called Yajña will shower back great...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

28 | On Bhagavad Gita | Limbs of the Cosmic Yajna Cycle

Neither matter nor energy is sentient and hence both cannot give rise to any idea, thought or design. At the same time, the whole creation is full of designs, sequences, orders, rhythms, cycles and the like. All these are possible only because of a Master source of creative intelligence, which has the supreme potential to create, uncreate and also to bring about change in the created.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

29 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be a Model for others to Emulate

He who delights in his own Self is above all needs and cravings. He has nothing to gain by doing or not doing anything. He...

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

30 | On Bhagavad Gita | Loka-sangraha – Ensuring well-being of the world

Ordinary ignorant people do their work very vibrantly, but with delusional clinging to the results of what they do. The Knowers should also likewise do all activities with full concern and attention, but without any delusional clinging at all. Instead of clinging, what they should zealously foster is the concern called lokasangraha.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

31 | On Bhagavad Gita | Discover the non-doership within you and be free

The renunciation Krishna enjoins is not at all gross or external. It is only in the mind and intelligence, effected by themselves. Consider all activities as offering to the Teacher. Once all actions stand offered to the Teacher, what can survive to cause ownership or possessiveness? Through renunciation or offering, the whole actions get away from the actor, the one who does them.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

32 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attractions and repulsions – be not swayed by them

Activities of every one, viewed fundamentally, spring from the same source. Grand Nature, a compound of sattva, rajas and tamas, gives rise to abundant plural...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

33 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attractions and repulsions – be not swayed by them

Passion can never be fulfilled. It is like blazing fire. By feeding it, it will only blaze forth with increased vigour. On this ground it is insatiable. This factor is what makes the display of desire and passion problematic, sometimes a huge monster. Nonetheless, seekers cannot refrain from dealing with passion effectively. What should then be done becomes a challenge for the seeker.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Immortality, moksha, is the goal of human life, especially of a seeker. For, he always aims at freedom (moksha). What is freedom? It is certainly not the physical freedom from anything. The freedom or moksha the seeker aims at is ‘inner’. It is freedom from the shackles our mind and intelligence seemingly impose.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

5 | On Bhagavad Gita | How to remain unaffected amidst joys and sorrows

In this letter, Poojya Swamiji discusses the art of attaining a deep note of harmony amidst sukha-duhkhas, while tossed around by interactions of all kinds.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

6 | On Bhagavad Gita | Discovery of inner eternal presence resolves all conflicts

Swamiji explains that the discovery of inner eternal Presence takes away all sense of conflict and contradiction from the mind and makes one harmonious, even-minded and poised.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

7 | On Bhagavad Gita | Exploring the Magnificence of Inner Presence

Poojya Swamiji exhorts us to employ our intelligence and realize the truth, no matter where we are and what we are out to do! Inner knowledge pursuit is not deterred by any external activity.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

8 | On Bhagavad Gita | Body to the Soul is like dress to the body

Soul is all-pervading, hence present in all bodies. By dropping a body, it does not become bodyless. As is the air present in all bodies, so is the presence of ‘I’, the Self, the Soul, in all bodies.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

9 | On Bhagavad Gita | Self is unaffected and transcendental

The Self cannot be reached by mental or intellectual deliberations. As it is indistinct to the senses, it is equally so to the mind and...

A Mahatma’s Family

Every year, just before the holy Gurupoornima Day, there is a special programme where Ashram assistants, workers and many others associated with Ashram activities – auto & taxi drivers, coconut-pluckers, electricians, plumbers, masons, fabricators, gas-burner repairer, et al – are invited and honoured.

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.

A Unique Pilgrimage – Visit to Shanti Ashrama, San Antonio Valley, California

Mrinalini Appadurai [On 22 October 2022 during the San Jose leg of the USA Sadhana Shibiram, Nutan Swamiji and a small group of...

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 Bhoomananda Tirtha

Astrology versus Exclusive Devotion

The God who is seated in your heart and in your devotion, will burn off all curses and all evil influences — this kind of faith you should have. Either you will have a faith or you will have an understanding. Proceed in this manner; do not miss your focus.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Be Endowed with Gurutva – Exalted Dimension

The word ‘Gurutva’ means profundity, solemnity, dignity and loftiness. In spiritual life, it implies the ability to receive, retain, and give. As one progresses, he must ultimately resemble the sky and God!

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Become what you chant

It is one thing to say that ‘may the mind delight in the Lord’s Lotus-feet’, and it is altogether different to make the mind actually delight in the Lotus-feet.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Devotion – the Supreme Refuge

The supreme refuge is in surrender. If the mind can develop this sense of reliance and resignation on the Supreme, then that Supreme comes to redress, protect and support.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Ego and Possessiveness – How to Get Rid of Them

Only when you ensure that throughout the day, whatever actions or reactions you have, there is a progressive enrichment and purification taking place in you, can you be considered a sādhaka. The extent to which you are able to remain equal, able to accept favourable and unfavourable outcomes with equanimity, will depend on the purity of the mind.

Enlightened Living – USA Sadhana Shibiram 2022 – Reminicences of Devotees

[As always, Nutan Swamiji was hosted in the homes of devotees during his Sadhana Shibiram in USA: Anuradha and Pankaj Bhatia hosted in Virginia, Deepa...

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

From Darkness to Light – Gurupoornima at Poornashram

When our Lord’s message arrived that we shall be doing the Guru-pādapooja in Poornashram this time, there was a flood of joy, tears of delight filling our faces.

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 Knowledge to Knower, God to Devotee

A devotee may initially seek God – a glimpse or vision of the God of his imagination. But as he progresses on the path of devotion, the focus shifts from God to his own personality.

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

Fruition of Spiritual Pursuit

By spiritual practice, you must be able to absorb and assimilate any input from the world, and at the same time, generate timely response to deal with whatever difficult situations and impacts you face.

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

Functional Merit of Meditative Absorption

The saadhana can be two-fold. One is closing the door, sitting alone in a room and trying to dissolve the thoughts and emotions in the mind. The second part of the saadhana is, when such a state occurs, you have to comprehend it wisely.

Getting Attuned to Sadguru

To have a close association of a Mahatma is very rare in one’s life and to have an opportunity to do personal service to him is even rarer. I truly consider myself blessed for this chance, having been able to do whatever little seva that was possible by me. These few days will certainly remain as a fond memory for the rest of my life.

Glimpses of the 5-day Retreat in Malaysia (January 2023)

by Participants [Nutan Swamiji’s “Enlightened Living – Walking the Inner Path” Residential Retreats first started in Jamshedpur in 2013. This year, for the first time,...

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Guru Awakens Us to Our Inner Presence – [Gurupoornima Message, 3rd July 2023]

Hari Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru. Today is a very auspicious day. I always describe Gurupoornima as the most holy and benedictory day...

Gurupoornima

Swamiji told us in no uncertain terms that he is what he is today purely due to his association with his beloved Baba. It was the loving relationship with his Guru that led him to a life free from worldliness, floating always in the glory of inner Self. Swamiji blessed us with Gurutva in our life--to develop substantial depth, profundity, nobility and greatness.

Gurupoornima Retreat 2022

It has been the tradition of our great land that during the ‘Chaatur-maasya’ (four month period) following Gurupoornima, disciples and devotees come to the hermitage...

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 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.

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Intoxicating Delusion

Man remains oblivious of the fact that, with the rising and setting of the sun, life is shrinking every day. He is so much engrossed in the heavy burden of worldly activities that never is he aware that time, which is very precious, which could have been used for the pursuit of liberation, is simply passing by and is getting wasted.

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.

Jayanti Celebration at Dakshinkhanda

When we came to know that the 90th birthday of our beloved Swamiji falls on 13th May, we devotees got inspired and sitting with Somnath Dada (from Jamshedpur), planned to celebrate Swamiji’s birthday. Sweet words, lisping speech in Bengali, affectionate gaze, soft heart, ochre dress and headgear, always busy surrounded by devotees, serving the suffering people as Nara-Narayana – such is our beloved Swamiji.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Joy of Devotion

What is purity? How to gain it? The Upanishads are not merely enlightening, but through a process of enlightenment they also compel purity. So, by reading this verse a seeker has to focus on the task of purifying himself.

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.

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

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mind – Pure and Impure

It is wrong to think that we cannot work without desires. Desire need not be a motivating force at all if one learns to live naturally. Does the earth need any desire to go around the sun? Do the trees grow and blossom motivated by any desire? In fact, desires hinder our natural efficiency and perfection.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mindfulness–Not mindlessness

Never feel even the least antagonised or confronted in the mental functions. On the other hand, consider it to be useful, necessary and indispensable. Recognise their nature and then encourage the useful, benevolent, enlightening and peaceful thoughts, and dissuade the others.

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Need of a Guru in Spiritual Pursuit

Any earnest seeker will not have a question on the need for having a Guru to lead him safely and fast to his goal. You want to reach somewhere. You do not clearly know the destination. If someone knows and is ready to help you, why think further about it at all?

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Non-dual Knowledge – Message of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam

The theme of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is clearly set forth right at the beginning of the text; it is jñāna, knowledge. True, everything is given a devotional touch. But what Śrīmad Bhāgavatam proposes to bring about is spiritual wisdom and wisdom alone.

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.

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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 ||

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Parents must grow

Repeatedly saying the same thing, nagging, is to be avoided. Make the children respond to words and suggestions given once. Tell them not to make it necessary to speak to them on the same point several times. Keep quiet, and take to mauna (silence). More than repeated exhortations, mauna will be heeded.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Peace – in Meditation and in Activity

The mind has to become pure. A number of qualities are to be imbued into it. This pursuit of purity, goodness and virtues, which directly bring peace to the mind – no matter whether the mind is active or inactive – is the ultimate quest of all religions, philosophy, spirituality and yoga.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Pearls of Wisdom from Srimad Bhagavatam

The best way to live in this world happily is to appreciate and congratulate any one with superior qualities, without envy.

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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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.

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Practising A Liberal Mindset

I don’t know why when some defects or insufficiencies are pointed out, people improve, if at all, cryingly. Can they not improve smilingly? After all, when some defects have come to light should you not be happy and try to set them right?

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).

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Purity of The Mind

Acceptance of the world is acceptance of plurality. Acceptance of plurality means being influenced by it. And to be influenced by dvandvas (pairs of opposites) means to be afflicted by desires, ego and possessiveness. These notes alone and nothing but these very notes of your own mind are the source of your afflictions. Their disappearance contributes to spirituality. When these notes begin to fall one by one, the worldliness dissolves and godliness shines forth.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Purpose of Meditation

Where will the mind rest? The mind has to rest on itself! Now, this restfulness of the mind on its own essence, is called meditative absorption.

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.

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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

Reminiscences of Five Divine Days

As Swamiji and some other devotees carried the armchair, Bābā was amused and he started shouting “Hari bol Hari bol”– as it is done in Bengal, but while carrying a dead body! The few railway staff present in the deserted station at that unearthly hour watched curiously the strange procession. Did they know that the reminder about mortality of the body was coming from an Immortal Soul while being carried by another Immortal Soul?

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.

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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”.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Self-Realization – A Sadhana of Refinement

Rely fully on the same Supreme Power from now on. This reliance has nothing to do with That. But it has everything to do with your mind, yourself.

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Self-realization – How Long Should Sadhana Continue

What is the correct sādhanā? How long should it continue? What is the actual goal? When will I achieve it? Poojya Swamiji, graciously, addresses the seekers, throwing light on these matters.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Sincerity and Orthodoxy

If we look into the various phases of Poojya Swamiji’s life, then we understand that it is the constant working of one quality called sincerity that made him live each phase with full dedication and outlive it with ease to follow the call of the next.

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

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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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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.

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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śraddhā – The Watchword

You may wonder how this śraddhā or subtle refinements are going to help you in God-realization. In the pursuit of God-realization, your focus should always be on your mind. It is your mind that has to be purified.

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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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Sublimity

What is spiritual vision in the end? To love and live in this world, FINDING IT GOD, the most beautiful. In this beauty, ugliness will dance, cruelty will sing, compassion and grace will play their notes too. But indifference must reign.

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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.

Sunflower

On the slope of the hill, opposite the last house of the village stood a thicket of sunflowers. It grew from a seed thrown by somebody who had passed by a long time ago. It was delightful to see the big leaves on stems as high as eight feet and flowers with brown seeds crowned by yellow petals looking like small suns, swaying in the breeze.

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 ||

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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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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 Nirviseshananda Tirtha

The Kite and the Sky

As soon as I started studying Physics, I fell in love with it. Study of Physics has always given rise to impersonality and humility in my mind. I would not like to study a science subject that could not be related to deeper harmony and the concept of unity in diversity. So, studying Physics was verily a spiritual sādhanā for me.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Lord’s Dwelling

Set up your home in such a style and sublimity that the thoughts and reflections on the Lord within the body will be encouraged, deepened and perpetuated.

Ma Gurupriya

The Milieu of an Exalted Dialogue – An Introduction to Yogavāsishtha Rāmāyana

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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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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.

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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

The Source Within

I was telling them (the audience) that it is a wonder why we miss the source of everything we see, hear, touch and feel! How is it that we grasp only the external world, knowing fully well that the source of everything is right within each of us!

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

Time Limit for Self Realization?

The Self is devoid of time, space and causality. To realize that Self, where is the question of fixing a time limit? As long as...

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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 Bhoomananda Tirtha

What is Sannyaasa

So, sannyaasaashrama is a phase of life which one can take up, if necessary, early from Brahmacharya itself, and pursue the ideal of supreme spiritual Wisdom, which alone results in ego-effacement or ‘Sannyaasa’.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

When the Mind becomes Your Friend

Understand that for Self-experience or for Self- realization to take place, the mind should be pure. It should be rid of stinginess, small-mindedness and desires. You must be liberal and generous in heart.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Who is a Good Devotee?

God loves those who have noble qualities in them and the devotee, who, with utmost Shraddha, attention, imbibes all the lakshanas (characteristics) becomes dearest to Him.

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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“I am Nothing, I want Nothing” – Poojya Swamiji’s 90th Jayanti Message

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

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10 | On Bhagavad Gita | Knowledge of Self dissolves all grief

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11 | On Bhagavad Gita | Spirituality is not disconnected to life

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12 | On Bhagavad Gita | A beautiful formula to be a master of the world

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13 | On Bhagavad Gita | Buddhi-Yoga: Spiritual pursuit through activity

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14 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be an Ātmavān – Self-integrated

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15 | On Bhagavad Gita | Act fervently but without Sanga

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16 | On Bhagavad Gita | Yoga-buddhi leads to inner equilibrium

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

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

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

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

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

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21 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be adorned by inner placidity

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22 | On Bhagavad Gita | Significance of sensory regulation

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23 | On Bhagavad Gita | The Oceanic dimension of a Knower

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24 | On Bhagavad Gita | Experiencing Brahma-nirvana

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25 | On Bhagavad Gita | Samatva – the essence of Bhagavad Gita

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26 | On Bhagavad Gita | Render every act as Yajna

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27 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attain Inner Elevation and Expansion through Yajna

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28 | On Bhagavad Gita | Limbs of the Cosmic Yajna Cycle

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29 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be a Model for others to Emulate

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

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30 | On Bhagavad Gita | Loka-sangraha – Ensuring well-being of the world

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31 | On Bhagavad Gita | Discover the non-doership within you and be free

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32 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attractions and repulsions – be not swayed by them

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33 | On Bhagavad Gita | Attractions and repulsions – be not swayed by them

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