Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

By Narayanashrama Tapovanam, An abode of BrahmavidyaReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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  • Take to chanting as austerity: Swamiji's childhood practices - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Swamiji shares with his listeners his own love for chanting Sanskrit hymns and shlokas. Right from childhood, the practice of chanting had a purifying and elevating effect on his mind.

    Swamiji exhorts everyone to take to the austerity of chanting Vishnusahasranama or Bhagavad Gita. This austerity has its sublime and creative effect on the mind, whereby the mind goes on becoming purified. Various distractional thoughts are gone and their place is taken over by the recitation.
    We come to understand from this talk that somehow we need to steal some time for recitation and build up the stock of austerity.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    आयुर्नश्यति पश्यतां प्रतिदिनं याति क्षयं यौवनं
    प्रत्यायान्ति गताः पुनर्नदिवसाः कालो जगद्भक्षकः ।
    लक्ष्मीस्तोयतरङ्गभङ्गचपला विद्युच्चलं जीवितं
    तस्मान्माम् शरणागतं शरणद त्वं रक्ष रक्षाधुनाम् ।।
    Shivaaparadha Kshamapanartha stotram Verse 13
    किं वानेन धनेन वाजिकरिभिः प्राप्तेन राज्येन किं
    किं वा पुत्रकलत्रमित्रपशुभिर्देहेन गेहेन किम् ।
    ज्ञात्वैतत्क्षणभङ्गुरं सपदि रे त्याज्यं मनो दूरतः
    स्वात्मार्थं गुरुवाक्यतो भज मन श्रीपार्वतीवल्लभम् ।।
    Shivaaparadha Kshamapanartha stotram Verse 12

    13 min
  • Austerity is the Watchword - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Swamiji emphasizes the importance of Austerity in the life of a seeker. It empowers one to penetrate into the mental and intellectual plane and bring refinement and moderation.

    Defining austerity, Swamiji says that Austerity is an effort to bridle, reform and refine the mind and removing all the undesirable elements in it.
    Austerity may begin from the sensory, oral and mental level. But the austerity becomes maximum and most central when the intelligence prefers to reflect upon the self and then wants to realize it in its own fullness.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    संगच्छध्वं संवदध्वं
    (Rigveda X-192-2).
    PR 12 May 2015

    18 min
  • Spiritual Austerity or Tapas - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    What is Spiritual Austerity? Swamiji, in this track, throws light on this subject saying that whatever a seeker does, it has to be with attention, attunement, sublimation and refinement.

    When these are had, the mind changes its quality, it becomes pure. And as the mind becomes pure, the thoughts, responses and reactions become different. They become purer, more and more sublime, more and more divine.
    PR 06 Jun 2012

    10 min
  • Self enrichment through austerity - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji emphasizes that the Mind and intelligence can be constantly enriched by austerity. A seeker must ensure that every action he/she performs is done with great attention. One has to constantly analyze whether the action is performed in a pure manner, without any clinging to it.

    A seeker needs to ensure that he performs all activities–secular, religious, social– in an austere manner. Swamiji assures us that this sublimation and enrichment of the mind will bring great joy.
    Shlokas chanted in the talk:
    यज्ञदानतप:कर्म न त्याज्यं कार्यमेव तत् ।
    यज्ञो दानं तपश्चैव पावनानि मनीषिणाम् ॥
    Bhagavad Gita 18.5
    एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च ।
    कर्तव्यानीति मे पार्थ निश्चितं मतमुत्तमम् ।।
    (Bhagavad Gita 18.6)
    तस्मादसक्तः सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर ।
    असक्तो ह्याचरन्कर्म परमाप्‍नोति पूरूषः ॥
    Bhagavad Gita 3.19
    न कर्मणा न प्रजया धनेन त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानशुः ।।
    (Kaivalyopanishad 3)
    PR 10 Aug 2009

    13 min
  • Austerity and Sannyasa - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this beautiful talk, Poojya Swamiji discusses the importance of austerity in the life of a seeker. Each spiritual aspirant will have to examine himself/herself to find out whether he/she is austere enough.

    Quoting relevant verses from the Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji exhorts everyone to reflect over the Bhagavad Gita verses and make sure that they embody ample austerity in their own lives.
    Shlokas chanted in the talk:
    तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः ।
    (Bhagavad Gita 5.17)
    PR 09 Nov 2012

    13 min
  • Renunciation is of the Mind II - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Poojya Swamiji speaks about the inner and sublime process of renunciation. This renunciation is not meant to be practiced by austere monks alone. It is to be practiced by everyone, in every walk of life.

    Swamiji says that real renunciation is the renunciation of Sanga (delusional clinging) to everything. A seeker has to diligently find out where the Sanga, attachment is hiding in his own personality and remove it.
    When one practices the inner renouncement, life would be filled with joy, peace, poise and harmony.
    PR 09 Jan 2018

    12 min
  • The Triple Practices of Yajna-Dana-Tapas - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    The entire Bhagavad Gita speaks and delineates only Tyaga and Sannyasa, Poojya Swamiji says. Then he goes on to explain the triple practices of yajna, dana, and tyaga, and how all three are tyaga alone.

    Slokas chanted in the track
    कार्पण्यदोषोपहतस्वभावः पृच्छामि त्वां धर्मसम्मूढचेताः ।
    यच्छ्रेयः स्यान्निश्चितं ब्रूहि तन्मे शिष्यस्तेऽहं शाधि मां त्वां प्रपन्नम् ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 2.7)
    सन्न्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम् ।
    त्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक्केशिनिषूदन ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 18.1)
    PR 02 Jun 2012

    14 min
  • Accept the Scriptures as Wholesome and Enriching - Prabhata Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji says that the body is animated and activated by the power within. The power of animation can be felt only in our living body. Thus, the focus of a seeker must be within. This animating power is the Self, indicated by the term ‘I’. Our shastras are verdicts of the people who have gone into this subject.

    A seeker must read the shastras, which are guides and pointers to him and he must never doubt them. He must have a frame of mind that accepts all revelations of the shastras as true, enriching, benevolent, wholesome and endearing. How we receive the shastras is most important. We must read them, learn them and understand and actualize them.
    Every statement of the shastras must be considered as pointers. One must delve deeply into the meaning and import of the statements and try to fully understand them. When we see the shastras as the most dependable, caring, endearing revelations, then our progress will be meteoric on this path!
    Shlokas Chanted in the Track:
    सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
    अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 18.66
    PR 26 Jan 2015

    11 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.