Bhoomananda Foundation

Swamiji stresses the point that a seeker must make it a habit of being attentive about the mind and its functions by looking into his own thought patterns. By focusing more and more on the Mantra, one can avoid unnecessary and distracting thoughts.

Non-expectation is the hallmark of true seeking on the spiritual path. There is no goal to achieve, only to realize one’s identity. In that, is there any expectation required – in meditation or elsewhere? Swamiji explains this subtle point in detail.

Swamiji delves into the subject of meditation, explaining what it is, and what its purpose is.

By slowing down the thought process, one is able to see that which became the thinker and the thought. This subtlety of the inside consciousness can be known only by one when one is sufficiently enquiring, that is, he is a seeker.

Meditation is always a mento-intellectual pursuit. Swamiji explains the technique of meditation in this talk, particularly how to deal with thoughts and desires. Ultimately, one goes to the very source of the mind and thought, resulting in a natural bliss.

In this talk, Swamiji explains the process and aim of meditation. The world is nothing but a reflection in the mind. Once the mind is thought-free, the worldly impacts are erased, and one is liberated.

Poojya Swamiji speaks about the significance of brahmavidya deeksha and the process of sadhana following it.

Poojya Swamiji explains how ever since our birth, we have been reacting only to imprints formed in the mind through inputs coming from the world. In case of any adverse reaction formed within us to an outside input, we need to understand that in the whole process we ourselves are the originator, the sustainer and dissolver of that reaction, and the other person is only a cause for it. Every action is generated by the mind. So if somebody is causing irritation, understand the irritation is a reaction from our inside, from the mind, and our mind has got infinite potential, capacity, to do anything it wants.

Poojya Swamiji says that it is our interaction and our relationship that bring their respective outcomes. These have to be absorbed into our sytem. This ability to absorb, to assimilate all the inputs from the world is what makes one a sthita-prajña and a sthitadhee, Swamiji says.

Poojya Swamiji says that this culture has got a lot of religious beginning, but it proceeds and ends up with philosophy and spirituality. He illustrates this statement by tracing the progress of our religion through several anushthanas, proceeding through the understanding that all anushthanas are actually mento-intellectual efforts, and finally culminating in the cardinal values of spirituality – viveka, vairagya, and the six-fold virtues that are the bedrock of spirituality.