Articles (81)

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Being Sensitive to Spiritual Wisdom

Fill the mind with spiritual statements, spiritual aphorisms and spiritual analysis. That means your whole thought process should become spiritual.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

43 | On Bhagavad Gita | Jñāna-Sādhanā – Knowledge Austerity

In the Knowledge Austerity, nothing is to be thought of or enquired into; rather, the very thinking and enquiring processes are to be dissolved into their own source, into the Self. This is actually an inner, subtle, refined process – an austerity in which mind and intelligence alone are employed. This is the real jñāna-sādhanā.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Love Your Body

Understand that even for a spiritual seeker, the body has to be kept healthy. Health of the body depends upon applying ‘targeted exercises’. I think all of you should start treating your body just like any other object dear to you. So, I always say: “Love your body.”

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Gurupada Samarpanam

As we inaugurate the rebuilt Poornashram, I am moved to share a few reflections. This space, born out of Baba’s spiritual legacy, is not just a physical structure but a living expression of the austere and ascetic nature of this sacred place.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Intensifying Sādhanā in Daily Life – Some Fundamental Concepts

Worldly interactions with gross and fragmented objects breed grossness and fragmentation in the mind. To annul these effects and take the mind to its pristine unfragmented evenness, interact as often as possible with the concept of the taintless singular Soul.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Defects Show the Way to Perfection

You drop your bheda-buddhih. Your body itself is made by God. It is Godly. The world is Godly. The interaction between the two also must be Godly. If the feeling of Godliness is not emerging in your mind, the trouble is in the mind itself.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Saadhana is Elimination of Asaadhana

One important landmark in the progress of one’s saadhana is understanding that it is not so much of saadhana that is to be done, but it is the asaadhana to be undone.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Illusoriness of Seen Objects

Experience is not in the body-level. It is not in the matter-energy level. It can only be in the sentience; and sentience is non-matter, it is supra-matter. It does not swell, it does not increase. It has got inscrutable power to give you any kind of a notion.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

“Come – Come – All Seekers of Truth” – Inauguration of the Arch Gate (28 July 2024)

[Upanishads as well as Śrīmad Bhāgavatam speak about announcing as widely as possible spiritual talks, programmes and institutions. It is not for fame, but to...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Non-dual Knowledge – Message of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam

The theme of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is clearly set forth right at the beginning of the text; it is jñāna, knowledge. True, everything is given a devotional touch. But what Śrīmad Bhāgavatam proposes to bring about is spiritual wisdom and wisdom alone.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Purpose of Meditation

Where will the mind rest? The mind has to rest on itself! Now, this restfulness of the mind on its own essence, is called meditative absorption.

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.

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’.

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?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Devotion – the Supreme Refuge

The supreme refuge is in surrender. If the mind can develop this sense of reliance and resignation on the Supreme, then that Supreme comes to redress, protect and support.

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...

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

When the Mind becomes Your Friend

Understand that for Self-experience or for Self- realization to take place, the mind should be pure. It should be rid of stinginess, small-mindedness and desires. You must be liberal and generous in heart.

The Source Within

I was telling them (the audience) that it is a wonder why we miss the source of everything we see, hear, touch and feel! How is it that we grasp only the external world, knowing fully well that the source of everything is right within each of us!

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Who is a Good Devotee?

God loves those who have noble qualities in them and the devotee, who, with utmost Shraddha, attention, imbibes all the lakshanas (characteristics) becomes dearest to Him.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Lack of Openness – Its Fatal Consequences

We must be able to talk about this to others and also to our own children boldly and openly. This Atma-bala is necessary and through bhakti, and also through saadhana, you should develop it.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Blame the Sinful Act – Not the Sinner

You may dislike and disapprove of bad. But you cannot dislike and disapprove of people, even if they have dislikeable qualities.

Ma Gurupriya

The Most Delightful Adventure

Always keep a beautiful picture of yourself in your mind. Full of all good qualities, like love, sympathy, sacrifice, patience, tolerance, perseverance, endurance, hope, confidence, fearlessness, truthfulness, straightforwardness, transparence, non-laziness, calmness, peace, joy and so on ..

Ma Gurupriya

My School & the Eternal School

Swamiji slowly exposed me to the enormous potentials of the mind. He taught me how the mind can handle and overcome every difficult emotion and situation and remain stable. Gradually he led me onto the path of discovering one’s real identity, the knowledge of which alone enables one to remain unaffected in the face of all stress and adversities.

Ma Gurupriya

Intoxicating Delusion

Man remains oblivious of the fact that, with the rising and setting of the sun, life is shrinking every day. He is so much engrossed in the heavy burden of worldly activities that never is he aware that time, which is very precious, which could have been used for the pursuit of liberation, is simply passing by and is getting wasted.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

The Kite and the Sky

As soon as I started studying Physics, I fell in love with it. Study of Physics has always given rise to impersonality and humility in my mind. I would not like to study a science subject that could not be related to deeper harmony and the concept of unity in diversity. So, studying Physics was verily a spiritual sādhanā for me.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Fruition of Spiritual Pursuit

By spiritual practice, you must be able to absorb and assimilate any input from the world, and at the same time, generate timely response to deal with whatever difficult situations and impacts you face.

Reminiscences of Five Divine Days

As Swamiji and some other devotees carried the armchair, Bābā was amused and he started shouting “Hari bol Hari bol”– as it is done in Bengal, but while carrying a dead body! The few railway staff present in the deserted station at that unearthly hour watched curiously the strange procession. Did they know that the reminder about mortality of the body was coming from an Immortal Soul while being carried by another Immortal Soul?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Purity of The Mind

Acceptance of the world is acceptance of plurality. Acceptance of plurality means being influenced by it. And to be influenced by dvandvas (pairs of opposites) means to be afflicted by desires, ego and possessiveness. These notes alone and nothing but these very notes of your own mind are the source of your afflictions. Their disappearance contributes to spirituality. When these notes begin to fall one by one, the worldliness dissolves and godliness shines forth.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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.

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...

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.

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.

The First Dāna-satram in SIRD Malaysia

– Veelayudan Nair [Note: Veelayudan Nair is Secretary of SIRD Malaysia and was appointed overall coordinator for this social welfare programme.] Call to Action Poojya...

SIRD Malaysia’s Initiative – to Bring Self-Knowledge to Youngsters

– Unnikrishnan Menon, Subashini Raghavan, Sithaletchumi Ramamurthi Under Poojya Swamiji’s guidance, we at SIRD have come to appreciate the immense potential within ourselves and others....

Jayanti Celebration at Dakshinkhanda

When we came to know that the 90th birthday of our beloved Swamiji falls on 13th May, we devotees got inspired and sitting with Somnath Dada (from Jamshedpur), planned to celebrate Swamiji’s birthday. Sweet words, lisping speech in Bengali, affectionate gaze, soft heart, ochre dress and headgear, always busy surrounded by devotees, serving the suffering people as Nara-Narayana – such is our beloved Swamiji.

From Darkness to Light – Gurupoornima at Poornashram

When our Lord’s message arrived that we shall be doing the Guru-pādapooja in Poornashram this time, there was a flood of joy, tears of delight filling our faces.

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...

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Collective Sādhanā – Its Spiritual Dimension

While interactional sadhana strengthens, deepens and enhances your individual pursuit, both these are verily enriched and empowered by taking up collective sadhana. Only when there is a collective programme, all of you will come together and join.

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.

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

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.

Just For Today

Today is our gift to discover the new riches in our own little world, to explore other lovely interesting paths, to find new potential and new pleasures.

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...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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?

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...

A Mahatma’s Family

Every year, just before the holy Gurupoornima Day, there is a special programme where Ashram assistants, workers and many others associated with Ashram activities – auto & taxi drivers, coconut-pluckers, electricians, plumbers, masons, fabricators, gas-burner repairer, et al – are invited and honoured.

Gurupoornima

Swamiji told us in no uncertain terms that he is what he is today purely due to his association with his beloved Baba. It was the loving relationship with his Guru that led him to a life free from worldliness, floating always in the glory of inner Self. Swamiji blessed us with Gurutva in our life--to develop substantial depth, profundity, nobility and greatness.

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!

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Divinity in Everything

If the earth is divine, then whatever has grown on the earth is also divine, including our own body. Instead of realizing this divinity which is already there in us and around us, we construct temples to install God there.

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?

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Purity of Mind

A Mahatma had a rich disciple who, in spite of repeated advice of the Guru, would make no effort to purify his heart and mind. But at the same time, the disciple used to pester the Guru for bestowing on him Brahma- jnāna (knowledge of Truth – Brahman).

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

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.

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.

Ma Gurupriya

True Relationship

गुरुर्न स स्यात्स्वजनो न स स्यात्पिता
न स स्याज्जननी न सा स्यात् ।
दैवं न तत्स्यान्न पतिश्च स स्यान्न
मोचयेद्यः समुपेतमृत्युम् ॥
gururna sa syāt–svajano na sa syāt–pitā
na sa syājjananī na sā syāt |
daivaṁ na tatsyān–na patiśca sa syān–na
mocayedyaḥ samupeta–mṛtyum ||

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Gurukula Training

I think all should share with their children such instances and thoughts as will make them confident, bold and adventurous. Mind has no limit. If at all, sky is its limit.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Science and Brahma Vidya

Swami Nirviseshananda said: “I don’t know of a time when my mind was not given to seeking the Truth. In that quest I have found scientific pursuit and spiritual sadhana always in complementary role – each strengthening and refining the other. Both physics and spiritual seeking used to give me the sublimity of unification and expansion, the joy of arriving at greater and greater harmony underlying the world variety.

Ma Gurupriya

Contentment is in the Mind

वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं दुकूलै:सम इव परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेष: ।स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान् को दरिद्र: ।। vayamiha parituṣṭā valkalaistvaṁ dukūlaiḥ sama iva paritoṣo nirviśeṣo viśeṣaḥ |sa tu bhavatu daridro yasya tṛṣṇā viśālā manasi ca parituṣṭe ko'rthavān ko daridraḥ ||

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The Power Within

You carry an infinitely potent mind. Never fail to recognize this great potency of the mind. We call it mind, but actually it is a projection or expression of the Self, the Supreme Reality, which has created and which is preserving this great endless Universe

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Old Age and Mental Health

You should develop an austere temper as a result of which, even under physical sickness – of course, you should give proper medical attention to it – your mind is not subdued by it. Let not any physical sickness paralyse or weaken your spiritual mind. If the body suffers from ill-health attend to the physical condition medically, but for most part rely on the virtue of your mind – its strength and inspiration.

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The mystery called Mind

Mind can also be said to be something alien to the Soul, which veils the latter in a mysterious manner. It is all a question of which description suits your taste and becomes comprehensible for you

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.

Ma Gurupriya

Real Education

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

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.

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

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.

Destiny Defined

Why drop thy career? Why now, at this age?”They’ve heard not the Promise, proclaimed by my Sage.

Face to Face

In him a brother I saw, My Best friend I trust, He showed me my Face

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.

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.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Motherhood enriched by Detachment

Every look of yours, thought, attitude and aim, must be soaked in this note of detachment. See whether it is so, and improve every time. When the child grows, then also tell him about your attitude and bring him up in that light. The child is yours and you can mould him as you wish.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Understanding Death

Can you forestall your own death, and the resultant loss to your children? Why then construe unnecessary misery in what, through your father's death, has befallen your lot? Better wisdom lies in assimilating the event, understanding it in its own place, and developing a larger, deeper and higher mind and emotions.

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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Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Being Sensitive to Spiritual Wisdom

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

43 | On Bhagavad Gita | Jñāna-Sādhanā – Knowledge Austerity

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Love Your Body

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Making the mind a treasure

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Gurupada Samarpanam

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

Intensifying Sādhanā in Daily Life – Some Fundamental Concepts

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Defects Show the Way to Perfection

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Saadhana is Elimination of Asaadhana

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Illusoriness of Seen Objects

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

“Come – Come – All Seekers of Truth” – Inauguration of the Arch Gate (28 July 2024)

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Non-dual Knowledge – Message of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Purpose of Meditation

Getting Attuned to Sadguru

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

What is Sannyaasa

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Practising A Liberal Mindset

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Devotion – the Supreme Refuge

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Time Limit for Self Realization?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

How to Acquire Virtues

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mindfulness–Not mindlessness

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

When the Mind becomes Your Friend

The Source Within

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Functional Merit of Meditative Absorption

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Peace – in Meditation and in Activity

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Who is a Good Devotee?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Lack of Openness – Its Fatal Consequences

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Blame the Sinful Act – Not the Sinner

Ma Gurupriya

The Most Delightful Adventure

Ma Gurupriya

My School & the Eternal School

Ma Gurupriya

Intoxicating Delusion

Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

The Kite and the Sky