Articles (73)

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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.

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

Real Education

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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Articles (73)

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Getting Attuned to Sadguru

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

What is Sannyaasa

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Time Limit for Self Realization?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

How to Acquire Virtues

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Functional Merit of Meditative Absorption

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

26 | On Bhagavad Gita | Render every act as Yajna

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

24 | On Bhagavad Gita | Experiencing Brahma-nirvana

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

22 | On Bhagavad Gita | Significance of sensory regulation

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Self-realization – How Long Should Sadhana Continue

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

21 | On Bhagavad Gita | Be adorned by inner placidity

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

From Knowledge to Knower, God to Devotee

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Astrology versus Exclusive Devotion

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

śraddhā – The Watchword

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

15 | On Bhagavad Gita | Act fervently but without Sanga