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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

45 | On Bhagavad Gita | Yajña – all-fold Panacea for Interactional Disharmony

By making the preliminary offering to the five prāṇas and Brahman before one takes his food every time, the entire food intake becomes ‘Yajña-śiṣṭa,’ All that one eats becomes a prasada (food blessed by Yajña). Such a prasada, says Krishna, will lift the partaker to the eternal Brahman.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

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

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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

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

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.