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“To be open before oneself is to be open before God.” - Ma
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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Inner Strength – not External Wealth
Mind left to itself outlives acquisition and delights in dispossession.
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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Harmony in Action
Appreciate people for what they are. Assimilate the environment. And go ahead heartily. You will be effective.
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Acquiring Strength Within
As you find time for food and nourishment, sleep and allied routines like bathing, etc., you should also spend 25 to 45 minutes every day, closing your eyes and observing your own inner, subtle mental processes.
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Making the mind a treasure
The mind is capable of leaving anything and generating contentment at any time in any situation. Be given to these values and be enriched. This is my message to all of you.
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Quarrel in Relationships
As you grow older, naturally you will start observing your parents and grandparents. You will come to understand their deficiencies, defects, etc. You should never condemn them or ridicule them. Instead, learn to avoid these defects in your own life.
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Challenges in Pursuing Sanatana Dharma
Sensory moderation and discipline – Sanātana Dharma extols these all the time. Adhering to these has always been the most difficult challenge in human life.
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Living and Outliving
Transition or transformation constitutes the very essence of growth. Once you understand it, this understanding will help the mind to live and outlive.
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Essence of Hinduism
Philosophically there is the Ultimate Reality; spiritually there is the Self; and religiously, God. the seeker has to search into the knowledge, knowing and the thing to be known; and find out all the three to be one and the same. This realization is the essence.
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Hinduism, the Sanātana Dharma
People started thinking, and a way of life governed by discipline, values and ideals aimed at enrichment, ennoblement and fulfillment got evolved. Generally, Hinduism is explained in this manner.
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Focussing on thinker – not thoughts
If you can reach and understand the source, it will mean a total revolution in your life.
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Sublimating fearful & inauspicious thoughts
Do not ever wrestle or fight with any kind of undesirable imaginations or thoughts. Understand that your mind or mind-substance is far ‘subtler’ and permeating than ‘space’.
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On lust, greed and anger
Discreet human life consists in the twin process of eliminating the undesirable and incorporating the desirable. This should be on till the last breath.
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Ego and Possessiveness – How to Get Rid of Them
Only when you ensure that throughout the day, whatever actions or reactions you have, there is a progressive enrichment and purification taking place in you, can you be considered a sādhaka. The extent to which you are able to remain equal, able to accept favourable and unfavourable outcomes with equanimity, will depend on the purity of the mind.
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Self-realization – How Long Should Sadhana Continue
What is the correct sādhanā? How long should it continue? What is the actual goal? When will I achieve it? Poojya Swamiji, graciously, addresses the seekers, throwing light on these matters.
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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.
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Need of a Guru in Spiritual Pursuit
Any earnest seeker will not have a question on the need for having a Guru to lead him safely and fast to his goal. You want to reach somewhere. You do not clearly know the destination. If someone knows and is ready to help you, why think further about it at all?
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Dealing with Doubt
Doubt is nothing new. Krishna made Arjuna introspect over his doubt and grief and automatically the doubt vanished.
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Handling difficult interactions
Why does interaction become difficult at times? It is because of raga-dvesha (likes and dislikes). We like some people and are happy to be with them. Some we don’t like, so we do not want to interact with them.
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Science and Spirituality
In spirituality the ‘I’ in us, the inmost Truth of our being, is finally discovered as God. So, spiritual sadhana starts when we stop looking outside and start looking within to find out “Who am I”.
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What is Dharma?
The power that sustains your life in good and bad, in prosperity and adversity, in success and failure, is called dharma.
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Success due to God or myself
When there is a close harmony between the knowing intelligence and the willful mind, equally between the external body and senses, good and effective actions proceed and they bring about the desired outcome. Otherwise not. Whether you believe in God or not, does not matter. What is required is a conscientious striving.
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Bhagavad Gita to overcome overwhelming emotions
Nourishment for intelligence is Knowledge, for mind is emotions. So, you must develop good emotions – love, sympathy, sacrifice – for the mind, and elevate your intelligence with greater and greater Knowledge.
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Ambition for Material Success
Moderation is the watchword for every one of you. Krishna says the Yoga of Bhagavad Gita will become relevant and effective, provided we are moderate. Eat moderately, sleep moderately, exert moderately, listen to moderately and speak moderately.
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Soothing a Troubled Mind
An enlightening, moving and heart-warming correspondence between Nutan Swamiji and a young girl, which addresses the difficulties of many intellectuals.
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How to Inculcate Values in Children?
While feeding the child, have the thought that the feed should instill in him good and sustainable health and inner stimulations. Whichever sense-organ of the child responds, through that provide the most sublime and elevating sensation.
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Why Ochre robes?
This colour also represents earth. Earlier, Sannyasins used to dye their cloth with a special ochre coloured earth called ‘Geri-mitti’.
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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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Theory of rebirth?
Birth and rebirth are tentative propositions, one visible and the other invisible, to help man think about continuity of existence. When his sense of enquiry grows and deepens, this continuity will be probed, dissected as it were, to take him to the nonobject, the Subject entity,
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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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Qualities in Bhagavad Gita
All these qualities basically represent a Knower, call him/her sthita-dhee or bhakta or Jnānee or Gunāteeta.
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How to recognise a Guru?
A time comes in the life of a serious seeker, when he eagerly seeks the ultimate and feels the need for one path guided by one Guru. Holding on to one is important in making the divergent mind convergent.
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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.
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Bhagavad Gita for Personality Transformation
Right from birth, we are slave to our attraction and repulsion towards worldly objects and situations. Our mind constantly undergoes elation, depression, and agitation, depending on whether the objective situation we face is to our liking or disliking. We are fearful of losing what we like and facing what we dislike. Bhagavadgeeta wants us to transform this slavery into mastery by cultivating the “Yoga” attitude.
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