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    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...

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Guru Awakens Us to Our Inner Presence – [Gurupoornima Message, 3rd July 2023]

    Hari Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru. Today is a very auspicious day. I always describe Gurupoornima as the most holy and benedictory day...

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    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.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Higher Joy

    How to give children a taste of a liberal mindset, a value-oriented life? Perhaps stories will help them understand the real taste of human values. Of course, thereafter they have to live the values to get established in them.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Sādhana in Gurusannidhi

    Through the Teacher’s responses to various situations, we get a touch of his vision – his love and his dispassion. In receiving his comments and accepting the corrections, our ego gets sublimated. In working with the co-disciples and accommodating others lovingly as the Guru does, our minds expand.

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    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.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    From External God to our own Mind

    The real purpose of all religious as well as spiritual practices is to purify and transform our own mind.

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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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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Desirelessness

    We are born with an insufficiency or lack that makes us look for happiness. We are born with the delusion that something from the world will fulfil that lack, will make us happy.

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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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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    The Right Focus

    Do not then look at thoughts or memories as disturbances, unfriendly or alien. Let them come or not, mind remains as Consciousness alone. Legs are legs whether they walk or run or sit. Think of this truth and allow all the mind-work to be on

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Realizing the Atma

    The existence of the Atma is always absolute. Its manner of expression includes that which you call ‘the world’. This is the truth. But this truth will remain a mystery until the seeker’s mind becomes crystal clear, desire-free and stable under all conditions. The least trace of impurity any time will impair his vision

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