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.

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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’.

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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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?

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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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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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!

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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

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?

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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.

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Most Empowering Experience

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

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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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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.

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Ma Gurupriya

Real Education

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

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Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Watching your thoughts

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

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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.

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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.

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