Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

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  • Self Knowledge - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji says how this self-realization works and brings about fruition and fulfillment is something we should know. When the mind recedes from desires, the craving for sensory enjoyment drops, the senses are brought under control, the knowledge comes that the Self within can produce all the enjoyment. Such people attain the supreme knowledge of the Self.

    PR 08 May 2018

    9 min
  • The Importance of Austerity - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha highlights how austerity provides all the sublimity, power, purity, tolerance and forebearance to dedicate one’s life wholesomely for the welfare of others. It is the wisdom and austerity alone that leads to an attitudinal change, dedicating one to perform with mental relaxation, delight and an expansive, cheerful attitude.

    Swamiji states that this is what the Bhagavad Gita describes as acting in an actionless spirit. Abiding in the spiritual luminosity in the sentience space within, with an enlightened intelligence and dissolved ego, is the austere life lived by Swamiji and the inmates in Narayanashrama Tapovanam. Swamiji further cautions that it is the lack of austerity that leads one to be intolerant, irritated, impatient and other such degrading thoughts and behaviours.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    मत्कर्मकृन्मत्परमो मद्भक्तः सङ्गवर्जितः ।
    निर्वैरः सर्वभूतेषु यः स मामेति पाण्डव ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 11.55
    सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्‍व्यपाश्रयः ।
    मत्प्रसादादवाप्नोति शाश्वतं पदमव्ययम् ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 18.56
    PR 27 May 2013

    15 min
  • Importance of Satsang - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha in this Talk, emphasises that Narayanashrama Tapovanam is an abode of spiritual knowledge, exclusively oriented to enrich and purify the mind, intelligence and ego.

    The Satsang in the Ashram is for Subjective Knowledge, transforming the character, behaviour and interaction by all who apply this Knowledge. This Subjective Knowledge, makes the inner personality free, light, expansive, luminous and joyful. For this, Swamiji quotes the Bhikshu Gita from Srimad Bhagavatam and expounds the depth of the message which on deep reflection and application, transforms the whole being, to the extent that even the environment outside becomes auspicious and divine.
    Swamiji himself always speaks about the message and application of the scriptures with wisdom orientation to enrich the seekers and the society at large.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    नायं जनो मे सुखदुःखहेतुर्न देवतात्मा ग्रहकर्मकालाः।
    मनः परं कारणमामनन्ति संसारचक्रं परिवर्तयेद्यत्।।
    Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.23.42
    दानं स्वधर्मो नियमो यमश्च श्रुतं च कर्माणि च सद्व्रतानि ।
    सर्वे मनोनिग्रहलक्षणान्ताः परो हि योगो मनसः समाधिः ॥
    Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.45
    PR 27 Feb 2017

    19 min
  • Renunciation of Desires is moksha - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In Yoga Vasistha Ramayana, Sage Vasistha enlightens, Sri Rama, that desires are the cause of all bondage. We have latent tendencies and desires coiled up in the mind. Moksha is the extinction of all desires.

    Swamiji emphasizes that it is possible for the mind to generate contentment by itself. In reality, there is no place or need for desires. Starting with external things, sannyasins renounce lucrative jobs, blood relations, and more importantly, renounce greed, untruthfulness, possessiveness and ego.
    How to renounce the desires of the mind? Aspiration or desire for liberation can be cultivated which will replace desires for external objects. After leaving object desires, the desire for knowing the Self also has to be left.
    The secret of spiritual wisdom is that a mind free of desires enjoys supreme peace and contentment.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    बन्धो हि वासनाबन्धो मोक्षः स्याद् वासनाक्षयः ।
    वासनां त्वं परित्यज्य मोक्षार्थित्वमपि त्यज ।।
    Laghuyogavāsiṣṭha Rāmāyaṇam 4.5.20
    PR 17 Apr 2010

    10 min
  • The Mind has the Power to Cling and also Leave - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this Talk, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha discusses the message given by Lord Krishna to Uddhava in the 11th Skanda of Srimad Bhagavatam. Krishna reveals the grand state of renunciation and non-clinging.

    Swamiji declares that so long as one is bound to a householder’s life, a person is only half human. It is only the fulfillment of the Sannyasa ashrama, where the quest is exclusively for the Absolute Truth, wanting nothing at all, that the human life is complete. Such a renunciate lets go of everything, never even living for the next day.
    Here, Swamiji recounts the grandeur of the great Emperor Rishabhadev, who after giving the sermon on Dharma to his sons, renounced the emperorship and lived in the joyful state of austerity. His mortal body simply merged in Nature by the forest fires. Swamiji describes the glory of such a state of renunciation. The human mind has the inexplicable power to willing leave everything in the world for permanent fulfillment.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    ज्ञानं विशुद्धं विपुलं यथैतद् वैराग्यविज्ञानयुतं पुराणम् ।
    आख्याहि विश्वेश्वर विश्वमूर्ते त्वद्भक्तियोगं च महद्विमृग्यम् ।।
    तापत्रयेणाभिहतस्य घोरे संतप्यमानस्य भवाध्वनीश ।
    पश्यामि नान्यच्छरणं तवाङ्घ्रिद्वन्द्वातपत्रादमृताभिवर्षात् ।।
    दष्टं जनं संपतितं बिलेस्मिन् कालाहिना क्षुद्रसुखोरुतर्षम् ।
    समुद्धरैनं कृपयापवक्यैर्वचोभिरासिञ्च महानुभाव ।।
    Srimad Bhagavatam- 11.19.8-11.19.10
    PR 27 May 2011

    13 min
  • Fixing the Intelligence on God is Austerity - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji discusses austerity, emphasizing its different levels and forms. Physical austerity involves acts like prostrating before deities, circumambulating temples, and chanting prayers.

    Moving beyond the physical, a seeker has to take to austerity of the mind. This includes cultivating positive emotions while eliminating negative ones. Finally, one has to employ the intelligence to ponder on profound questions like the nature of God and the self. By understanding the mind’s workings and recognizing Consciousness as the source of all, true austerity is achieved. Understanding the unity underlying all mental processes is the ultimate goal of austerity.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय ।
    निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 12.8

    11 min
  • Austerity at the level of the Mind and Intelligence - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Speaking about austerity, Swamiji says that Tapas (austerity) can be of three levels. The physical Austerity is the elimination of whatever one otherwise does generally, or incorporation of something new which one is not used to doing as a daily routine. Tapas in the mind level is when one introduces a thought or a set of thoughts and try to revolve them in the mind like mantra japa, thinking of God etc.

    Austerity in the intelligence level is when you start contemplating upon God or Self. This is the Austerity where knowledge becomes the goal, knowledge becomes the means, and knowingness becomes the nature! Knowleedge austerity is the highest, noblest level of Austerity. A true seeker, by a process of contemplation, must renounce his possessiveness and ego and reach higher levels of purity.
    Shlokas Chanted in the Track:
    न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
    Bhagavadgeeta 4.38
    सत्यान्नास्ति परो धर्मः।

    13 min
  • The Significance of Austerity - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Swamiji speaks about the important quality of austerity. He says that a seeker must reflect upon and understand what it means and live an austere life.

    True austerity should be of the mind, intelligence and heart. In the level of the mind, austerity means, more and more of purity, less and less of impurity. In intelligence level, it should be more and more of the pursuit of spiritual wisdom.
    Austerity is either one of denial or one of incorporation. It can relate to the body and senses first; mouth next; mind still next; intelligence still further, and finally it can refer to the ‘I’ or the ego.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
    (Bhagavad Gita-4.38)
    धर्माणामस्ति सन्न्यासः

    15 min
  • What to learn from an Ashram - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Swamiji speaks about what an Ashram is and what one can gain from an Ashram.

    It is always knowledge interaction that takes place in the Ashram. All the knowledge discussed and shared in the Ashram will be knowledge about the inner personality, its characteristics, its potential, its possibilities. Ashram is a place where the knowledge about the subjective part of our personality and the world is understood, discussed and disseminated.
    All activities that take place in the Ashram are an amalgamation of lofty spiritual thoughts, spiritual assessments, spiritual knowledge. The teachers in Ashram impart spiritual knowledge and brilliance.

    24 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.