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Bhoomananda FoundationMessage on Ma's Birthday - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaThis is a special message given by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, on the request from a Brahmacharini, for the birthday of Ma Gurupriya.After Swami Nirviseshananda and Ma Gurupriya came to Narayanashrama Tapovanam, Kerala, their Guru Bhakti, Guru Seva in Guru Sannidhi, reflected great elegance and a personalized touch, as practiced in the North, considering the Guru as a Living God and serving Him like a Living Deity. Swamiji shares very touching, personal anecdotes of Ma’s Guru Seva rendered with utmost purity and devotion.Swamiji declares that both Swami Ni...2025-04-2914 min
Bhoomananda FoundationCome to a Guru to Lay Your Mind Open - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji addresses students who had come for a Sadhana Retreat to Narayanashrama Tapovanam, Kerala. Swamiji, expresses that he is not freely expressing His love, fondness and endearment to the students, as they are not open with their thoughts and emotions to him.It is not possible for the Guru to expose the Truth, with no restrictions, if the students have restraints, rigidities and fear in thinkings that prevent them from not laying their mind open, despite coming and living with the Guru for a prolonged time. Sharing openly with the Guru...2025-04-2708 min
Bhoomananda Foundation01 - Brihadarayanka Upanishad | Yajnavalkya-Maitreyi Dialogue | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaThis is a discourse series given by Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha during the Gurupoornima Retreat at Narayanashrama Tapovanam, in Kerala. As the name suggests, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is a voluminous text. It is a treatise on Self knowledge and it covers all aspects of human life.
Chanting the shanti Mantra of the Upanishad, (ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते।पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते॥ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः॥), Swamiji discusses why this chanting is taken up before the study of the Upanishads. He explains that to understand this subtle and profound knowledge, there has to be a conducive and harmonious environment and right attunement of the body, mind and intelligence.
Discussing the Shanti Mantra, Swamiji deeply analyses the word ‘Poorna’. This Poorna is the non-dual consciousness. It is different from anything in the objective world. This Consciousness or...2025-01-261h 09
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Importance of Austerity - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha highlights how austerity provides all the sublimity, power, purity, tolerance and forebearance to dedicate one’s life wholesomely for the welfare of others. It is the wisdom and austerity alone that leads to an attitudinal change, dedicating one to perform with mental relaxation, delight and an expansive, cheerful attitude.
Swamiji states that this is what the Bhagavad Gita describes as acting in an actionless spirit. Abiding in the spiritual luminosity in the sentience space within, with an enlightened intelligence and dissolved ego, is the austere life lived by Swamiji and the inmates in Na...2024-10-0514 min
Bhoomananda FoundationImportance of Satsang - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwami Bhoomananda Tirtha in this Talk, emphasises that Narayanashrama Tapovanam is an abode of spiritual knowledge, exclusively oriented to enrich and purify the mind, intelligence and ego.
The Satsang in the Ashram is for Subjective Knowledge, transforming the character, behaviour and interaction by all who apply this Knowledge. This Subjective Knowledge, makes the inner personality free, light, expansive, luminous and joyful. For this, Swamiji quotes the Bhikshu Gita from Srimad Bhagavatam and expounds the depth of the message which on deep reflection and application, transforms the whole being, to the extent that even the environment outside becomes auspicious and...2024-10-0418 min
Bhoomananda FoundationPoints For Sadhana Day - 1 | Gurupoornima Retreat 2022 | Swamini Ma GurupriyaThis discourse series by Swamini Ma Gurupriya was part of the Gurupoornima Retreat 2022 program at Narayanashrama Tapovanam, Kerala.
In this talk, Ma draws a seeker’s attention to the all-important spiritual pursuit or Sadhana.
Sharing the wisdom from various scriptures like Vivekachoodamani, Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita, Ma highlights the fact that human life has a higher purpose - to realize our True identity. And the goal of our Sadhana is to be embraced by this Soul identity.
Soulfully chanting the verses, Ma tells us that, as Sadhakas, we should feel grateful that we are blessed with three things. a...2024-08-041h 05
Bhoomananda FoundationViveka - A Fundamental Quality of a Seeker - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaThat quality that enables us to distinguish between the changing and the changeless is viveka. This viveka sharpens our intelligence and makes our faculties subtler and more perceptive. It is an essential quality of a seeker.
PR 13 Apr 20112024-04-1011 min
Bhoomananda FoundationCultivate Sattva Guna | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma GurupriyaMa tells us that we have to cultivate Sattva Guna as Rajo Guna and Tamo Guna are constantly trying to influence us and make us suffer. The way to cultivate Sattva Guna is to constantly introspect over the ephemeral nature of everything in this world. Nothing here can give us permanent happiness, rather they ultimately give us unhappiness. Also our mind is full of desires about various things and these desires make usrestless. So a wise person must cultivate sattva guna and remove all the desires.
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Bhoomananda FoundationScience Behind Temple And Prana Prathishta | Words of Wisdom | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji enlightens us that there is a lot of science behind temples, installation of deity and deity worship. God is an all pervading presence, yet it is very difficult for most people to think or visualize his Omnipresence. So, the Priest who installs the idol, implores God to come and be present in the idol. He instills the force and power of Prana into the stone.
The air is present everywhere, yet we can only breathe it. It does not immediately help relieve us of the heat or sweating of the body. But when we use a handfan...2024-04-0807 min
Bhoomananda FoundationAll Religious Practices are to Strengthen the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaWhat is the purpose of religion? It is to instill spiritual values that will make the mind stronger and purer. With the help of examples from our epics, Poojya Swamiji explains the purpose of religious and spiritual practices.
Slokas chanted in the track
बुद्धिर्बलम् यशो धैर्यं निर्भयत्वमरिगताम् ।
अजाड्यं वाक्पटुत्वञ्च हनुमत्स्मरणात्भवेत्॥
(Subhashitam)
PR 09 Dec 20162024-04-0713 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Need for Dispassion and Yearning for liberation - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn spirituality, what matters are dispassion and yearning for liberation. Even if one does not have dispassion, practice of introspection will bring it. When one understands that the whole world is fleeting and ephemeral, how can there be attraction towards it? The focus naturally lands on the substratum behind all the changes, and the yearning to know it grows.
Slokas chanted in the track:
मन्दमध्यमरूपापि वैराग्येण शमादिना ।
प्रसादेन गुरोः सेयं प्रवृद्धा सूयते फलम् ॥
(Vivekachudamani 28)
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति ।
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 4.40)
राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् ।
प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 9.2)
PR 03 May 20172024-04-0613 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Need for Dispassion and Yearning for liberation - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn spirituality, what matters are dispassion and yearning for liberation. Even if one does not have dispassion, practice of introspection will bring it. When one understands that the whole world is fleeting and ephemeral, how can there be attraction towards it? The focus naturally lands on the substratum behind all the changes, and the yearning to know it grows.
Slokas chanted in the track:
मन्दमध्यमरूपापि वैराग्येण शमादिना ।
प्रसादेन गुरोः सेयं प्रवृद्धा सूयते फलम् ॥
(Vivekachudamani 28)
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति ।
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 4.40)
राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् ।
प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 9.2)
PR 03 May 20172024-04-0513 min
Bhoomananda FoundationQualities needed for Knowledge-pursuit - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaThe existence of the world is depending upon us, the observer or the experiencer. This experientiality is the factor that we have to use in the whole of Vedantic study and pursuit. After hearing this, one should introspect or ruminate over whatever has been heard, until at last the knowledge becomes assimilated. This requires mind to be pure and endowed with virtues like truthfulness and sincerity.
Slokas chanted in the track:
एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 13.12)
PR 03 May 20112024-04-0414 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Wonderful Values in our character - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji delves into the need for development and nourishment of qualities which enrich our inner personality. Only a guileless heart can know the Self. Thus, the values like straightforwardness, truthfulness, etc. become very important in the spiritual journey.
PR 12 Sep 20112024-04-0211 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Glory of Brahmacharya - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji speaks about the glory of this austerity of Brahmacharya, what mental bhava is required for its practice, and how it is one of the greatest offerings to God.
Slokas chanted in the track
यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति।
(Bhagavad Gita 8.11)
PR 05 Jun 20152024-04-0115 min
Bhoomananda FoundationCultivate Qualities of Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaEvery quality is an embellishment, is an ornament, an enrichment to our system. But what is the way to cultivate the qualities of mind and intelligence? Poojya Swamiji gives us a simple formula.
Slokas chanted in the track:
मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषवत्त्यज।
क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्भज ॥
(Ashtavakra Samhita 1.2)
PR 03 May 20182024-03-3123 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDevelop Good thoughts in your Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaOur perception of the world, our response to it, and the joy or sorrow, these are all the products of the mind. Hence, if we can train our mind to produce good thoughts, it will be always joyful.
PR 01 Aug 2012
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Bhoomananda FoundationAppreciate Good Qualities of Others - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji emphasises how it is important to appreciate the qualities and virtues in others. Not only it will make us want to have the virtue in ourselves, but the mere sight of good virtues will give us joy.
Slokas chanted in the track
वाञ्छा सज्जनसङ्गमे परगुणे प्रीतिर्गुरौ नम्रता
(Niti Shatakam 62)
PR 01 Apr 20152024-03-2908 min
Bhoomananda Foundation'I' is always a non-doer | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji enlightens us that the core of our personality, the 'I', is always a non-actor and a non-doer. The inner presence not just fills the body, but it fills the entire creation. It is like the space which supports all planets and stars. All actions are done only at the bodily and sensory level; the inner presence ever remains a witness of all.2024-03-2504 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDevelop Qualities of Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSri Krishna says that the kind of person who merges with Him is one who does everything for God, who thinks of God as supreme in his life, who is an exclusive devotee of God, and devoid of all attachments. Poojya Swamiji says that the entire sadhana is related to acquiring these qualities in the mind and intelligence by which we gain the true identity of ourselves.
Slokas chanted in the track:
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मत्कर्मकृन्मत्परमो मद्भक्तः सङ्गवर्जितः ।
निर्वैरः सर्वभूतेषु यः स मामेति पाण्डव ।।
mat-karma-kṛn-mat-paramo mad-bhaktaḥ saṅga-varjitaḥ |
nirvairaḥ sarva-bhūteṣu yaḥ sa mām-eti pāṇḍava ||
(Bhagavad Gita 11.55)
PR 06 July 20152024-03-2408 min
Bhoomananda FoundationUnderstanding a Good Quality will automatically Generate love for it - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji explains what is meant by a quality and gives two definitions, one is an inherent constituent or definition of an object, and another is something that qualifies the object/person. A good quality strengthens the personality, makes it more functional. Is there any alternative but to love it, asks Swamiji. This fondness for the quality is what helps in cultivating the quality.
Slokas chanted in the track:
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मुनिः प्रसन्नगम्भीरो दुर्विगाह्यो दुरत्ययः ।
अनन्तापारो अक्षोभ्यः स्तिमितोद इवार्णवः ॥
muniḥ prasanna-gambhīro durvigāhyo duratyayaḥ |
ananta-pāro hy akṣobhyaḥ stimitoda ivārṇavaḥ ||
(Srimad Bhagavatam 11.8.5)
PR 05 Dec 20132024-03-2313 min
Bhoomananda FoundationQualities of a Knower - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji explains the difference between pratyaksha (directly perceptible to the senses) and paroksha (inferential). Then he goes on to explain how we need to expand our mind so that we can embrace the entire world and not just the immediate family. With this expansion, the mind becomes pure, and the seeker starts gaining the qualities of a knower, a mahatma. That leads to the transcendental experience.
Slokas chanted in the track:
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निरस्तरागा विनिरस्तभोगाः शान्ताः सुदान्ता यतयो महान्तः ।
विज्ञाय तत्त्वं परमेतदन्ते प्राप्ताः परां निर्वृतिमात्मयोगात् ॥
nirasta-rāgā vinirasta-bhogāh śāntāh sudāntā yatayo mahāntah ।
vijnāya tattvam parametad-ante prāptāh parām nirvṛtim-ātmayogāt ॥
PR 02 Feb 20172024-03-2210 min
Bhoomananda FoundationRenunciation is of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaBhagavad Gita speaks about Renunciation. Tyaga and Sannyasa are the main two subjects of the Bhagavad Gita. The questions thus arises as to how to accomplish this Tyaga and Sannyasa? How does it reflect in our Interactions? Can Interactional Sadhana accomplish it?
The entire world is designed by God, preserved by God. We play no part in it. But we still feel a sense of doership and enjoyership. A seeker must completely abandon the feeling of doership, enjoyership and sufferership. When all the activities performed are renounced attitudinally by the mind, it becomes the yoga for the buddhi.
A...2024-03-2114 min
Bhoomananda FoundationRenunciation is of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaBhagavad Gita speaks about Renunciation. Tyaga and Sannyasa are the main two subjects of the Bhagavad Gita. The questions thus arises as to how to accomplish this Tyaga and Sannyasa? How does it reflect in our Interactions? Can Interactional Sadhana accomplish it?
The entire world is designed by God, preserved by God. We play no part in it. But we still feel a sense of doership and enjoyership. A seeker must completely abandon the feeling of doership, enjoyership and sufferership. When all the activities performed are renounced attitudinally by the mind, it becomes the yoga for the buddhi.
A...2024-03-1914 min
Bhoomananda FoundationEvery Exhortation in Bhagavad Gita relates to the Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaDiscussing some verses from the Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji discusses Yoga in great depth and detail.
We interact with the world and everything that follows is an outcome of interactions.The sense organs on their own do not have the power to function, without the guidance of the mind. So, our entire life is based on the mind. This mind can be acted upon only by the intelligence which has knowledge as the quest.
Our entire life is an expression and extension of the mind, and all our problems are mind problems, which can be resolved by the intelligence alone...2024-03-1808 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWorld Experiences are Only Mental Imprints - III - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji urges us to think about the propositions of saakara, niraraka and nischala, spending time to understand them. It is by this that we will be able to increase our devotion.
Explaining a verse from Ashtavakra Samhita, Swamiji says that anything that has a shape or a form is to be considered as untrue, unreal. That which is devoid of shape is niścala, immovable, motionless. Only when one has spiritual instructions (Tattva Upadesha), one will not be born again.
Swamiji urges seekers to introspect on this one verse repeatedly.
Shlokas chanted in the Track:
साकारमनृतं विद्धि निराकारं तु निश्चलम् ।
एतत्तत्वोपदेशेन न पुनर्भवसम्भवः ॥
Ashtavakra Samhita 1.18
PR 20 Jan 20162024-03-1708 min
Bhoomananda FoundationUpanishadic solution for Social Strife | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaIn this enlightening talk, Nutan Swamiji tells us that all strife we find in the society is due to our own selfishness, comptetition, jealousy etc. We think 'I' is a body limited personality. That 'I' is a ficticious 'I', we assume a certain image of ourselves. We have a bias and partiality in our vision. This constricted vision brings all strife in the society.
But when we try to understand this 'I', looking within, we finally reach a state where there is nothing different from I. We find that the whole universe is floating in the I, sustained by...2024-03-1608 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Greatest discovery of the World | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaWe always think that something outside us will make us happy. But the truth is that nothing from outside can ever make us permanently happy. The ancient rishis of our land, discovered this fundamental truth and in their effort to discover the source of permanent happiness, they turned within, leaving everything else. They discovered that when everything was forgotten, including own personality, they were flooded with joy. They realized that happiness is the natural property of our inmost presence.
Nutan Swamiji says, this is the greatest discovery in the world as with this, our insufficiency feeling is eliminated. The...2024-03-1509 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Kitchen Story | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma GurupriyaNarrating an incident from her life, Ma enlightens us that all our unhappiness and misery is due to our desires and expectations. A seeker should completely remove the desires as it is a bondage. Liberation lies in elimination of desires. 2024-03-1404 min
Bhoomananda FoundationPinnacle of True Devotion | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaDescribing an incident in the life of Poonthanam, a great devotee of Lord Guruvayurappan, Nutan Swamiji enlightens us that real bhakti means surrender; taking complete refuge in lord. And the proof and test for our surrender is the complete acceptance of whatever happens in our life.2024-03-1205 min
Bhoomananda FoundationGoing beyond likes and dislikes | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaIn this beautiful talk, Nutan Swamiji tells us that fulfilment in life will come only when we are able to go beyond our likes and dislikes. Swamiji narrates an incident in Ashram where Poojya Swamiji had an animated conversation with a group of village hooligans, which made a great impression on him and made him realize what it means to go beyond likes and dislikes. Later, Nutan Swamiji took up the Construction work in Ashram, much against his personal dislike. This is Spiritual life; life beyond likes and dislikes. 2024-03-1210 min
Bhoomananda FoundationTreasure of Contentment | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma GurupriyaMa narrates a heart-touching story of an old beggar who came to the Ashram and her interaction with him. Ma says, there is a fountain of joy within us, if we go within and touch that, it will always be happiness. One who is contented with what he has, is the richest man!
Sloka Chanted:
न खिद्यते नो विषयैः प्रमोदते
न सज्जते नापि विरज्यते च ।
स्वस्मिन्सदा क्रीडति नन्दति स्वयं
निरन्तरानन्दरसेन तृप्तः॥
Vivekachudamani 5362024-03-1105 min
Bhoomananda FoundationRenunciation is Renouncing the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaThrough the conversation between Kumbha and the ascetic king Shikhidwaja, Swamiji explains what is ‘Renunciation’. He says Renunciation is of the mind – as everything is felt by the mind, experienced by the mind. The mind, being consciousness, has got infinite powers. By virtue of these powers, it produces the gross objects, preserves them and makes us experience them. Thus, everything is a mental creation – in the mind by the mind. It is such a mind that we have to renounce. Renouncing the mind means renouncing the ego, ‘I’ feeling. Ego is the seed from which the whole world tree is spreading...2024-03-1011 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDelve Into the Thought Process - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji speaks comprehensively about our Mind, its power and potential. We suffer from ignorance or delusion about the self and our mind. This Ignorance is what is to be removed by proper pursuit of knowledge, by probing into the mind and intelligence and by enquiring about the Self.
What we need is a kind of mind in which all thoughts are always enlightening and informative and not affecting or agitating. By proper introspection, one must understand that mind and its thought are the same in substance. The thought is no different from the mind.
One must...2024-03-0915 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWorld Experiences are Only Mental Imprints - II - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this audio, Swamiji says that the mind uses or employs the eyes to see the objects, to grasp them. At the grasping level, the mind is the source and cause. Then, after or in the grasping process, all the objects are imprinted by the mind itself. It is these imprints that one is experiencing.
Once this is understood – there will be Nirapeksha (non-expectation) in the mind. One will think: “Can my mind desire its own imprints? If everything is mental and mind born and mind imprint, then what is there to be desired?” Nirvikarah (unchanging) – one will understand that the...2024-03-0811 min
Bhoomananda FoundationAffluence of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji discusses Yogavasishtha Ramayana which tells us explicitly that the mind is an expression of the self. It is this mind that has to be tackled. Besides the mind, there is no other faculty a seeker has to focus his attention during the sadhana.
Mind has a number of traits likes- dislikes, preference-prejudices, acceptance-rejection, desire-hatred, which only cause us distress. The mind has great potential. Atma has to be known and accessed by the mind itself. A seeker has to introduce desirable qualities in the mind. When the mind has the noble qualities, it gets transformed.
...2024-03-0310 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMind Is The Source Of Everything - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji clarifies that our mind is not a physical part of the body. It is associated with the body. Body is inert but mind and intelligence are not inert.
Our eyes are the smallest organs in our body, but they can see infinite distances. The power and presence that have made the eyes, the hands, skull and brain, its potential and greatness is infinite. When we refer to the mind and intelligence, we refer to the potential of this PRESENCE. One never sees the world outside. It is the mind that takes the mental imprint, and that imprint is...2024-03-0211 min
Bhoomananda FoundationElevate Your Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji, draws our attention to one fundamental fact that entire life lies around oneself. Our ‘I’ expresses itself in the form of sensory activity, oral activity, mental, intellectual activity. But all these activities are designed and implemented by the inner personality. They are initiated by the mind, then implemented by the mind by employing the senses and it also concludes in our mind.
The mind is the greatest treasure possessed by a human. One must cherish it and bring about improvement, refinement, expansion and liberality to the mind. Our human life is only meant to treat the mind and elev...2024-03-0113 min
Bhoomananda FoundationHow to Understand the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji speaks about Sapta Bhumikas-the seven spiritual states of a seeker. It is not a physical growth, but a psycho-Intellectual growth of the seeker.
Both the mind and intelligence are expressions of the Consciousness. The consciousness employs the senses and employing the senses, it perceives. The actual perception is in the mind, registration is in the mind, imprints are in the mind, the mind uses the senses to have its own imprint and these imprints are stored. So, though it is a sensory experience, and we call it direct, the experience itself is in the level of consciousness.
After...2024-02-2920 min
Bhoomananda FoundationPotential of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji continues discussing the potential of the mind and asks us to keep introspecting on the mind such that knowledge becomes the functional note in our personality. Manana is the key.
The whole world is matter and energy and it is insentient. It is animated and activated by the Consciousness. Whether you call it the mind or the intelligence or the ego, substance-wise, it is the same cētana or consciousness.
cētana or consciousness is not just the mind that is enclosed within the body. Mind is only a functional name. One aspect of the cētana’s funct...2024-02-2813 min
Bhoomananda FoundationJust Presence | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaIn this beautiful talk, Nutan Swamiji speaks about his Gurudev Baba Gangadhara Paramahamsa, on the occassion of Baba's 127th Jayanti. Swamiji explains what mattered most for him was just the presence of the Mahatma, more than any words spoken. Everything that Swamiji needed was there in Baba's existence. 2024-02-2714 min
Bhoomananda FoundationShraddha - An essential quality of Seeker | Words of Wisdom | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaWhat is the most important factor in attaining the Spiritual Wisdom? Poojya Swamiji explains that it is the Shraddha - assiduos application of mind and intelligence, which helps attain the spiritual goal. Swamiji also briefly describes the three paths to attain it - dhyana yoga, sankhya yoga and karma yoga. 2024-02-2506 min
Bhoomananda FoundationRealizing our eternal nature | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaNutan Swamiji enlightens us that in reality there is no object at all. The world that we see and experience is appearing in the Consciousness. It is an apparent creation. Swamiji explains that this Knowledge is so wholesome that it wipes out all our clinging, likes and dislikes and enable us to serve everyone better; without ego, elation or depression.2024-02-2407 min
Bhoomananda FoundationHow to make the knowledge our own? | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaNutan Swamiji enlightens us that though we see this world as external to us, in our experience the world we see is what appears in the mind. So, subjectively, the world we perceive is made of Consciousness.
When thoughts arise, we get disturbed, as we follow the thoughts. Though it is the Consciousness, which is taking the forms that we are experiencing, we get troubled by the differential notion. Swamiji says, it is our clinging to what we like and dislike, that creates hindrance in making the Knowledge our own.
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Bhoomananda FoundationDoing all activities as Yajna | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma GurupriyaWhat is Yajna? Ma explains that every act that we do without delusional clinging to the results, becomes a Yajna. We should consider every work as given by God and do it in an excellent manner. There should not be any thought of personal gain, rather we should think of others and do benevolent acts.
Ma also tells us that it is easier to renounce external objects but our thoughts, feeling and ideas are very difficult to renounce. As we do our actions with the attitude of Yajna, it results in spiritual gain, our mind imbibes good qualities and...2024-02-2207 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDiscerning the Real Atma | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaIn the ancient times, the rishis used the 'arani' wood to generate fire for their rituals, by rubbing the two pieces of wood together. Nutan Swamiji explains that the fire is already hidden in the wood, only a proper effort is needed to manifest it. Similarly, the Self is what we are, but we are unable to manifest or feel It, because our body and mind are so much given to worldly and sensory delight.
A Guru helps us in experiencing the Self within us. The sadhana or churning has to be done using the Knowledge, which is the...2024-02-2107 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDiscovering the fire within | Words of Wisdom | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaWe think we are the body limited personality, the world stands different from us and everyone here are individual Atma. But is that the truth? Using a mirror example, Poojya Swamiji explains what is original and reflected Consciousness and how the reflected consciousness is the Consciousness associated with and dependent on body. By discovering our Real identity, we transcend mortality and becomes immortal. 2024-02-2007 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDiscovering the fire within | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaWe think we are the body limited personality, the world stands different from us and everyone here are individual Atma. But is that the truth? Using a mirror example, Nutan Swamiji explains what is original and reflected Consciousness and how the reflected consciousness is the Consciousness associated with and dependent on body. By discovering our Real identity, we transcend mortality and becomes immortal. 2024-02-1913 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe World Floats in Your Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji says that spirituality is an experiential science. As perceivers, we give the objective reality to the world. The mind is subjective and all experiences are in this subjective sphere.
We perceive the earth, water etc. Similarly, we know that we have a body. This knowledge emerges inwardly in the mind. Just as light illumines objects, the ‘I’ illumines the presence of the body and the presence of the world.
Waking up, employing the senses and then perceiving the world – this perception is within the mental plane. The entire world is floating in our mind. In sleep this is confir...2024-02-1812 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Unfathomable Magnitude and Potential of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji discusses the mind and reiterates the importance of introspection to understand its principles, processes, troubles and torments due to desires, hatred and other such emotions.
Mind is not just a flimsy, weak existence, it is potent powerful and resourceful. It produces millions of thoughts and also emotions. Thoughts are produced and dissolved over and over again. This twin process continues as long as the body remains.
Swamiji says that the mind is an expression of the soul. It has the power of creation and dissolution and thus it becomes virtually equal to God.
Mind is an expression of...2024-02-1705 min
Bhoomananda FoundationProbe into your Thoughts Through Meditation - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji discusses the benefit of a spiritual life and pursuit. Spirituality offers an inner gain, after attaining which, the spiritual seeker feels that there is nothing greater than that.
The spiritual gain is felt in the sphere of the mind. The only way is to sit and delve into our minds. The gain belongs to the mind and intelligence.
For some time daily, we must get into our mind and probe into its thoughts. Our mind is a wonderful source which can generate any number of thoughts, preserve them, and dissolve them too. Swamiji urges us...2024-02-1016 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Power and Potential of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaActivities and achievements in the world are traceable to the human mind. Sharing the examples of poets like Kalidasa.
One has the power to transform the mind and intelligence. Even Panini worked on his mind and got clue to compose the sutras on Sanskrit grammar. Kalidasa transformed his own life and became a renowned Poet. Meera physically drank poison but there was no effect on her body. This is the power of mind over matter.
Deeksha help a seeker to cling to a word, a sutra and invigorate the mind with it. This is one’s greatest austerity. Mind be...2024-01-2013 min
Bhoomananda FoundationRamayana and Hindu Dharma - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji details how the Epics are not mere historical descriptions, but actually give through them, the values and inspiring lives of all the characters. Ramayana was composed by Sage Valmiki, who got transformed from the dacoit Ratnakara into a saint. Through the close association of the saints, he got free from all his sins. Through the poetic composition of the Ramayana, Sage Valmiki depicts the life of Maryada Purusha Shree Rama as well as all the characters in the kingdom of Ayodhya during the Treta Yuga.
Swamiji speaks about the degradation of this lofty Dharma of our country today...2024-01-2019 min
Bhoomananda FoundationUnderstanding the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSpirituality is a mental pursuit. The only focus in on the mind, says Swamiji.
Mind is either functional or non-functional and the entire sadhana is to deal with the functional mind and reach the non-functional state. From active to still. A thought-free state doesn’t stay forever, and we return to a thoughtful state. The goal is that the thoughtful state should not disturb us. We should be the same in both.
First, we reach a thought-free fullness and thereafter we must progress to a state in which both the still and vibrant states are alike.
Yoga Vasistha says: Le...2024-01-2010 min
Bhoomananda FoundationReasoning to Deduce that World is Illusory - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji asks us to evaluate why this world is considered to be mithya, even though everything around us seems to be solid. Our mind refuses to accept that it is a illusion unless we assess it from our intelligence level.
Experiences are all inner. The subtle mind makes us experiences everything. All experiences are caused by the senses, which are activated by the mind. All gross objects derive their existence because the mind experiences them.
All 3 dimensions are produced by the mind and that’s how we experience the gross objects. This entire world that we experience in our mi...2024-01-2007 min
Bhoomananda FoundationPurity of Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji says that the mind is of 2 types – pure and impure. The same mind becomes pure and impure.
The excessive attachment to the sensory objects of the world leading to sensory enjoyments conduces to bondage. The mind keeps struggling and cannot be contented and quiet. When the mind is free from their stranglehold, then it is said to be free.
How to make the mind pure? A seeker must focus on removing the impurity and restoring purity. Contentment and joy as much as sorrow belong only to the mind, as they are experiences produced by the mind.
Swamiji el...2024-01-2017 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThere is no Bondage - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaSwamiji, in this track, speaks about bondage and liberation. We are bound and this bondage has to be removed. The whole Ātma jñāna sādhana is meant for that.
The Upanishads say the Ātma is eternally free. It has got no bondage at all. A seeker must understand the nature and character of the soul and know it to be sentient and spatial. Being so, it cannot court any bondage, any time. So, it is not the question of acquiring of liberation, but the understanding that there is no bondage. Understanding that there is no bondage, is true liber...2024-01-2012 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMind Can Dissolve All Mental Impacts - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this audio, Swamiji points out that the skill and ability of the mind is limitless. Mind is capable of assimilating any kind of an impact from the world. The mind will dissolve only mental impacts and these impacts are made by the mind, not by any object. Mind alone sees the world. Mind alone forges an imprint on it and mind alone feels the impact. So, everything is the mind and mind alone is the sole focus of spiritual wisdom.
The more assimilative the mind becomes, more the structure of the mind will change. The seeker must always...2023-12-2814 min
Bhoomananda FoundationFour Levels of Activity - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaHuman activity is primarily in four levels, says Swamiji in this track. The first is the physical level where activity is performed with the body, limbs and sensory organs. Next is the oral activity where sounds are produced. Superior to these external activities is the mental activity where the thinking, remembering etc are done by the mind. Still higher and deeper is the activity done by the intelligence where there is a quest for knowledge.
Swamiji exhorts all seekers to evaluate and understand the two inner activities–the activities performed by the mind and intelligence. They constitute the deepest an...2023-11-2612 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMind and the Self - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this message, Swamiji says that all actions are initiated by the mind, sustained by the mind and dissolved by the mind. So, mind is the sole focus of an individual’s life.
Normally, the mind is outgoing. This outgoing tendency has to be avoided and the seeker must make an effort to rest the mind on the Self. When the mind rests on the Self, it will slowly give up desires for external objects. When the mind becomes free of external desires, the Self experience one has will not be limited to meditational hours but it will extend to...2023-11-2511 min
Bhoomananda FoundationUnaffected Nature of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this message, Swamiji urges seekers to understand that the focus of spirituality is the ‘Mind’. By any extent of mind’s productions, the mind substance is not affected.
One has to sit and observe the mind and understand that any kind of a mental activity does not bring about a structural change in the mind. The mind presence continues to be the same.
Remaining silent in oneself, one can feel the presence of the mind and realize that no function of the mind affects the mind itself. Realizing this unaffected nature of the mind, one must remain unaffected. The en...2023-11-2313 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMake Light of All Situations - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this audio, Swamiji exhorts all seekers to be at home with everything that happens in life.
Maybe in the past sins or mistakes were committed but one should not worry about it. One must have a light mind. One must not magnify any troubles or irritations. Our mind has got full capacity to be at home with everything, either past, present, or future. It is the mind that has to reconcile with whatever has taken place or is going to take place. Our mind has got sufficient potential for that. One must have faith and remain unruffled. A...2023-11-2213 min
Bhoomananda FoundationNo Thought is besides and different from the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji discusses and explains the three levels of Reality–Vyāvahārika (Interactional), Prātibhāsika (illusory) and Pāramārthika. All the three are there concurrently or parallel in us. When we are wakeful it is Vyāvahārika reality, when we are dreaming it is illusory reality, and when we are able to understand it fully it becomes the real reality.
In the Vyāvahārika level things are different from us and plurality is there. In the dream, difference is there but it is in an illusory manner and when one understands the Truth in the...2023-11-2112 min
Bhoomananda FoundationHarmonizing the mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Swamiji says that the body and the senses are inert. It has to be animated and activated by the mind and the intelligence. Our real personality is the mento-intellectual one. So, all the reformation, enrichment and refinement have to be brought about in the mind and the intelligence.
A seeker wanting to have freedom and fulfilment, will have to improve and nourish the mind and intelligence. This refinement and enrichment cannot be had by any external rituals or practices.
Shlokas chanted in the Track:
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥
Bhagavad Gita २-१४॥
यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ ।
समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
Bhagavad Gita २-१५॥2023-11-1910 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWorld - A Mind Display - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this message, Swamiji speaks about Hindu Dharma and the two personalities around whom it prevails. One is Sri Rama and the other is Sri Krishna. In Sri Rama’s life, we find that the greatness of the human mind consists in the sacrifice it is able to generate.
Sri Krishna repeatedly emphasizes to Uddhava (In Srimad Bhagavatam) that the whole world is nothing but a display of the mind. The prime emphasis of his teaching is on the illusory nature of the world. Everything is the mind display, and mind itself is an expression of consciousness. This consciousness is...2023-11-1813 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Growth of Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this track, Swamiji makes us understand that the body stops growing at the age of 21 and the mind and intelligence are the only faculties that need to grow after that. So, in human life, the sole focus has to be on the mind.
Knowledge of the mind and intelligence and their function is the Subject Knowledge. In subject knowledge, we aim to enhance the skill, the ability, the performance of the mind and the intelligence.
How to improve the mind and intelligence? The mind is nourished and improved, when we incorporate desirable qualities and eliminate undesirable qualities. To...2023-11-1117 min
Bhoomananda FoundationVishnusahasranama Stotram | Chanting | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha and Ma GurupriyaVishnusahasranama Stotram.2023-11-1121 min
Bhoomananda FoundationCulturing a Buoyant Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this talk, Poojya Swamiji takes up the subject of the potential of the mind. We all have things in our past which have the capacity to hurt or victimize us in the present. By the right thought process, by the right emotional process, by the right spiritual process, all that can be simply dropped and the mind can start becoming lustrous and brilliant. One is not to be victimized by the memory of the past; one has to be encouraged by the possibility of the present.
Swamiji emphasizes that If one wants to get into the actual sād...2023-11-0911 min
Bhoomananda FoundationImbibe Qualities to Make Your Mind Flexible - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaThe entire spirituality is mind-centered, says Swamiji. One has to constantly try improving the mind, building and imbuing the mind with newer and newer qualities.
When the mind cultivates qualties such as love, sympathy, sacrifice etc, it will become vast and expansive. Mind is currently inflexible and hard. The same mind can be made flexible, spatial, ready to assimiate all interactional impacts.
Shlokas chanted in this audio:
आकाशवल्लेपविदूरगोऽहं
आदित्यवद्भास्यविलक्षणोऽहम् ।
अहार्यवन्नित्यविनिश्चलोऽहं
अम्भोधिवत्पारविवर्जितोऽहम् ॥
Vivekachudamani–4992023-11-0810 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSadhana for wholesomeness and fulfilment - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaAnalyzing the inner personality, Swamiji explains that our personality consists of the mind, intelligence, ego and the substratum of all these–the SELF. With such a personality we are complete, full and wholesome. To understand that this is so and to make our mind and intelligence reflect the fullness and wholesomeness is the real effort and sādhanā.
We have to understand that the whole of spiritual sadhana is centered in the mind. It is the mind that begets experience, it is the mind that distorts matters, and it is the mind that becomes pure and brings clarity.
Shlokas chanted in t...2023-11-0711 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSolution lies within - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this track, Poojya Swamiji speaks on how a seeker should approach every challenge in life. One has to elevate oneself from emotional turbulence to rational enquiry–from the mind level to the intelligence level.
For every problem, there is a solution right beneath the problem in the inner recess of the mind itself. If there is a problem, there is also a solution. If there is no solution, at least there is a dissolution of the problem. The whole process revolves around our own inner personality.
Shlokas chanted in this track:
कस्मिन्नु भगवो विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवतीति ॥
kasminnu bhagavo vijñāte sarvamidaṃ vijñātaṃ bhavatīti ||
Mundakopanishad–1.1.32023-11-0612 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSolution lies within - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this track, Poojya Swamiji speaks on how a seeker should approach every challenge in life. One has to elevate oneself from emotional turbulence to rational enquiry–from the mind level to the intelligence level.
For every problem, there is a solution right beneath the problem in the inner recess of the mind itself. If there is a problem, there is also a solution. If there is no solution, at least there is a dissolution of the problem. The whole process revolves around our own inner personality.
Shlokas chanted in this track:
कस्मिन्नु भगवो विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवतीति ॥
kasminnu bhagavo vijñāte sarvamidaṃ vijñātaṃ bhavatīti ||
Mundakopanishad–1.1.32023-11-0612 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Thought is nothing but the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaMind is the cause of bondage and liberation, the scriptures state. What is the nature of the mind, and what is its relationship with thought? What leads to liberation? Poojya Swamiji explores these and other questions related to the mind in this short talk.
Slokas chanted in the track
मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ।
(Amritabindu Upanishad 2)
न कश्चिज्जायते जीवः सम्भवोऽस्य न विद्यते ।
एतत्तदुत्तमं सत्यं यत्र किञ्चिन्न जायते ॥
(Gaudapada Karika 3.48)
PR 12 May 20172023-11-0515 min
Bhoomananda FoundationA Desireless Mind is Liberated - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaMind alone is the cause of bondage for human beings, the scriptures say. They go on to explain how a desireful mind is impure and a mind freed of desires is pure. The objective is to give up all desires and “do nothing”. That is the direction in which we need to move.
Slokas chanted in the track
मनो हि द्विविधं प्रोक्तं शुद्धं चाशुद्धमेव च ।
अशुद्धं कामसङ्कल्पं शुद्धं कामविवर्जितम् ॥
(Amritabindu Upanishad 1)
न ह्यसन्न्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 6.2)
मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ।
बन्धाय विषयासक्तं मुक्त्यै निर्विषयं स्मृतम् ॥
(Amritabindu Upanishad 2)
आत्मसंस्थं मनः कृत्वा न किञ्चिदपि चिन्तयेत् ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 6.25)
PR 05 May 20182023-11-0408 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Law of the Mind - Prabhatha RashmihThe mind has a wonderful quality. Whatever one thinks of, the mind becomes that. This is the foundation of infusional sadhana which Poojya Swamiji explains in detail.
Slokas chanted in the track:
मनसैव मनश्छित्त्वा कुठारेणेव पादपम् ।
पदं पावनमासाद्य सद्य एव स्थिरो भव ॥
(Yoga-Vasistha Ramayanam 5.13.35)
या मतिः सा गतिर्भवेत् ॥
(Ashtavakra Samhita 11)
चित्तं चिद्भक्षितं कृत्वा चित्तादपि परो भव ॥
(Yoga-Vasistha Ramayanam 5.111.18)
PR 03 Jun 20182023-11-0312 min
Bhoomananda FoundationIntegrate the mind - Prabhatha RashmihIn this audio, Swamiji emphsizes that a seeker has to understand that the first and the last factor to be dealt with is the mind.
The problem is that we are not conscious of the fact that it is the mind that is to be handled. A seeker has to integrate mind’s own products and reactions. Any kind of a spiritual seeking and a spiritual effort will be an effort to look into the mind and make its reactions uniform, without swinging between likes and dislikes, loss and gain etc.2023-11-0205 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMind is a Treasure - Prabhatha RashmihJust as there are physical, chemical and biological laws governing the physical universe, there are psychological, philosophical and spiritual laws working within us. As per these laws, everything is going on, one plan after another, events happen and become past. We have to be reconciled with whatever is and will be. We must realize that our mind is something very beautiful, splendid, a treasure. It is our greatest friend, not our enemy.
PR 03 Nov 20132023-11-0112 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSeeing Atma EverywhereIn this sublime talk, Nutan Swamiji brings home the essential truth that every perception, every experience gives us the touch of the Supreme Presence. Although the world is full of variety, when it comes to our experience within, all of it is experienced as Consciousness alone. Ruminating and actualizing this knowledge, will bring about a great transformation in our attitude towards life!2023-10-3106 min
Bhoomananda FoundationOffering all activities to GodAll of us worship God, in our own ways. But is that worship reaching God? What constitutes a real worship? Is worship only a time and space bound activity? Or does it have much larger application? In this enlightening talk, Ma answers all these questions and gives us a clear understanding of true worship.2023-10-3006 min
Bhoomananda FoundationBe contented with whatever chance brings - Prabhatha RashmihIs not our entire life providence-driven? Knowing this, let us train our mind to be contented with what it has and gets. Poojya Swamiji explains to us the secret of contentment and fulfillment in life.
Slokas chanted in the track
यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः ।
समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 4.22)
PR 12 May 20182023-10-2914 min
Bhoomananda FoundationJapa for Expansion of Mind - Prabhatha RashmihHow can the process of japa lead to the purification of mind and cultivation of virtues? Poojya Swamiji explains in this short talk.
PR 05 May 20162023-10-2812 min
Bhoomananda FoundationBe connected to the source of all thoughts - Prabhatha RashmihApart from the world of five elements, we have only mind, intelligence and ego. While at the bodily level, the possibility of changes is limited, at the mental level, the options are infinite. One way to bring about those changes, that Swamiji speaks about, is to remain connected to the source of all thoughts.
Slokas chanted in the track:
भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च ।
अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिकष्टधा ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 7.4)
PR 08 Aug 20162023-10-2712 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDesirelessness leads to a Peaceful Mind - Prabhatha RashmihThe cheerfulness and joy of the mind are lost because of the desire and possessiveness. Dropping the latter will make the mind pure and consequently vibrant.
Slokas chanted in the track:
प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् ।
उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् ॥
(Bhagavad Gita 6.27)
PR 02 Jan 20162023-10-2608 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMaking the Mind a Treasure - Prabhatha RashmihAll the interactions proceed from the mind, and the impacts are felt by the mind. Mind is the seat of all thoughts, emotions, feelings of happiness and unhappiness, etc. Such being the case, it is the mind alone which has to be made beautiful, sublime, placid and serene. The whole spirituality is nothing but an effort to improve and strengthen the mind.
PR 2 Apr 20152023-10-2510 min
Bhoomananda FoundationHow to Nourish Your Mind - Prabhata RashmihPoojya Swamiji says, “Whatever we call virtue, whatever we call ethics, whatever we call inner embellishment, enrichment, it is all to strengthen the mind and give it more and more health. Unless you understand this point and spend every day some time to enrich the mind subjectively and spiritually, you will not have a healthy and a joyous life.”
PR 1 Jun 20122023-10-2408 min
Bhoomananda FoundationStop differentiating between spiritual and non-spiritual - Prabhata RashmihThe mind’s function is to produce thoughts just as legs do the walking. We just have to get into the thought process and understand it. We need to spiritualize the mind.
Slokas chanted in the track
लये संबोधयेच्चित्तं विक्षिप्तं शमयेत्पुनः ।
(Mandukya Karika 3.44)
मनसैव मनश्छित्त्वा कुठारेणेव पादपम् ।
(Yoga Vasistha 5.13.35)
PR 1 Jul 20172023-10-2320 min
Bhoomananda FoundationBe Conscious of your Mind - Prabhatha RashmihOne must be conscious of one’s mind because it is only the mind that gives us the notion of the world, notion of oneself and notion of everything. Out of the stored memories, mind produces thoughts, some desirable, some not. How do we get away from the obsession of thoughts? In this talk, Swamiji tells us the way.2023-10-2207 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe Middle Position - Prabhatha RashmihQuoting a verse from Adi Shankaracharya’s Vivekachudamani, Poojya Swamiji speaks about the interactive life of a Self-Realized person. His will be a public life, he would meet and interact with many people, places and situations. In all his interactions, he neither gets attached to anything nor does he get detached from anything. He is established in the middle position.
Swamiji exhorts listerners to stay focussed on the middle position. This middle position, self-postion, is so beautiful that one starts becoming harmonious with the world, integral with the world. Our spiritual attainment is not something to be had by be...2023-10-2112 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSanatana DharmaWhat is Sanatana Dharma? What is its meaning and purpose? Poojya Swamiji in his usual rational and eloquent manner explains the much-debated subject. Swamiji elucidates that Sanatana Dharma is an eternal power of sustenance, understanding and pursuing which, anyone can derive the necessary poise, freedom, welfare and strength to face any situation in life and realize one’s eternal nature. 2023-10-2009 min
Bhoomananda FoundationSeek Contentment from the Mind Alone - Prabhatha RashmihIt is foolishness to think that any object can create joy. Is joy not an inner creation of the mind alone? If we churn our mind with this knowledge, then undue elation and undue depression will both fled, and the contentment we seek, becomes ours.
Slokas chanted in the track:
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ।।
(Bhagavad Gita 2.14)
इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ ।
तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ ।।
(Bhagavad Gita 3.34)
न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् ।
स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः ।।
(Bhagavad Gita 5.20)
कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् ।
अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम् ।।
(Bhagavad Gita 5.26)2023-10-1915 min
Bhoomananda FoundationIntensity in Sadhana | Swamini Ma GurupriyaMa narrates an incident where an old wandering sannyasin arrived at the Ashram, his conversation with Poojya Swamiji and the thought-provoking advice he gave to all present there. 2023-10-0705 min
Bhoomananda FoundationMyth of Desire | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaGenerally, our lives are influenced and driven by various desires, like desires for wealth, luxury, partner, power etc. But are desires really necessary to become happy? In this short talk, Poojya Swamiji impresses upon us the myth of desire.2023-10-0704 min
Bhoomananda FoundationThe most efficient state of mind | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaNutan Swamiji reveals to us the secret to achieving maximum efficiency of performance, fulfilment and joy in whatever we do in our life.2023-10-0702 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWhich Spiritual Path is the best ? | Swami Nirviseshananda TirthaHow to decide which spiritual path one should follow in their life? Is there a fitness criterion? Nutan Swamiji answers this question in a ludic manner in this talk.2023-10-0703 min
Bhoomananda FoundationLittle Krishna | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma GurupriyaMa narrates a sweet conversation between Yashoda and Krishna, wherein the little boy asks the mother for milk. Krishna as always enchants us with his playful act and fills our heart with joy. The sloka is from the text " Srikrishnakarnamrutam " 2023-10-0703 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWhat is Growth for a Spiritual Seeker? - Prabhata RashmihIn this talk, Poojya Swamiji tells us about a seeker’s growth in life. The seeker must look for an inner felicity growth, and such a growth happens in the mind and the intelligence. Of the many virtues that elevate a seeker on the way are love, sympathy and sacrifice. What is the final point of such a growth? Swamiji explains it is a total purity in the being, and a supreme peace and quietude.
Slokas chanted in the trackमुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषवत्त्यज।क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्भज॥(Ashtāvakra Samhitā 1.2)विशुद्धसत्त्वस्य गुणाः प्रसादःस्वात्मानुभूतिः परमा प्रशान्तिः ।तृप्तिः प्रहर्षः परमात्मनिष्ठायया सदानन्दरसं समृच्छति॥(Vivekachudamani 119)2023-10-0711 min
Bhoomananda FoundationPeace, Joy and Fulfillment - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this audio, Swamiji explains how to practice the Sadhana of attaining peace, joy and fulfilment.
This sadhana of enriching the mind and intelligence will make the mind better and the intelligence sharper and more subtle. With qualitative thinking and introspection, the inner personality gets transformed and the whole life becomes peaceful, joyous and fulfilled.2023-10-0711 min
Bhoomananda FoundationFind Joy In Everything You Do - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaIn this short message, Swamiji asks the listeners to do all activities joyfully. When one has this attitude towards work, one will go closer to the Ultimate knowledge. The activities maybe in the domestic, professional or the social field but one must make all activities spiritual and divine.
The formula is to drop all aspirations, desires, ideals and values and focus on doing all activities joyfully, happily.
Shlokas chanted in the audio:ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं(Bhagavad Gita 13.17)यया संलभते रतिम्(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.7.33)तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया ।उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः ।।(Bhagavad Gita 4.34)2023-10-0712 min
Bhoomananda FoundationDesire constricts the mind, it is bondage itself - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaDesires are the the blocks in the path of liberation. By desiring, the mind is constricted and the constricted mind will never deliver the peace we want. Absence of desires is liberation itself.
Slokas chanted in the trackबद्धो हि वासनाबद्धो मोक्षः स्यात् वासनाक्षयः ।(Yoga-vasistha Ramayana 4.57.19)ज्ञाते वस्तुन्यपि बलवती वासनाऽनादिरेषाकर्ता भोक्ताप्यहमिति दृढा याऽस्य संसारहेतुः ।(Vivekachudamani 267)2023-10-0710 min
Bhoomananda FoundationWhat is Liberation? - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda TirthaPoojya Swamiji gives the listener a fresh insight into the subject of liberation. When one is free, light and unaffected, it is liberation.
Liberation does not mean that one has to get liberated. Liberation is in feeling that the ‘I’ in me has been ever-liberated. One has to feel one’s own liberated nature. It is not to attain any particular state but to know what is already there.
Quoting a verse from Srimad Bhagavatam, Swamiji explains that terms like bondage and liberation are only in the realm of Gunas. But Gunas being illusory in nature, bondage and liberation are also i...2023-10-0710 min