Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

By Narayanashrama Tapovanam, An abode of BrahmavidyaReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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Bhoomananda Foundation episodes

  • Cultivate Sattva Guna | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma Gurupriya

    Ma tells us that we have to cultivate Sattva Guna as Rajo Guna and Tamo Guna are constantly trying to influence us and make us suffer. The way to cultivate Sattva Guna is to constantly introspect over the ephemeral nature of everything in this world. Nothing here can give us permanent happiness, rather they ultimately give us unhappiness. Also our mind is full of desires about various things and these desires make usrestless. So a wise person must cultivate sattva guna and remove all the desires.


    5 min
  • Science Behind Temple And Prana Prathishta | Words of Wisdom | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Poojya Swamiji enlightens us that there is a lot of science behind temples, installation of deity and deity worship. God is an all pervading presence, yet it is very difficult for most people to think or visualize his Omnipresence. So, the Priest who installs the idol, implores God to come and be present in the idol. He instills the force and power of Prana into the stone.

    The air is present everywhere, yet we can only breathe it. It does not immediately help relieve us of the heat or sweating of the body. But when we use a handfan to blow the air, we get a sooting effect. The air becomes functional. In the same manner, when the idol is consecrated, people will have a focus there and will be able to come and pray to God by looking at the idol.
    Shloka Chanted:
    सर्वत्रगोഽसि भगवन् किल यद्यपि त्वां
    आवाहयामि हि यथा व्यजनेन वायुम् |
    गूढो यथैव दहनो मथनादुपैति
    ह्यावाहितोഽपि हि तथा त्वमुपैषि चार्चाम्
    sarvatragoഽsi bhagavan kila yadyapi tvāṃ
    āvāhayāmi hi yathā vyajanena vāyum |
    gūḍho yathaiva dahano mathanādupaiti
    hyāvāhitoഽpi hi tathā tvamupaiṣi cārcām
    Tantrasamuchayam 6.64

    8 min
  • All Religious Practices are to Strengthen the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    What is the purpose of religion? It is to instill spiritual values that will make the mind stronger and purer. With the help of examples from our epics, Poojya Swamiji explains the purpose of religious and spiritual practices.

    Slokas chanted in the track
    बुद्धिर्बलम् यशो धैर्यं निर्भयत्वमरिगताम् ।
    अजाड्यं वाक्पटुत्वञ्च​ हनुमत्स्मरणात्भवेत्॥
    (Subhashitam)
    PR 09 Dec 2016

    14 min
  • The Need for Dispassion and Yearning for liberation - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In spirituality, what matters are dispassion and yearning for liberation. Even if one does not have dispassion, practice of introspection will bring it. When one understands that the whole world is fleeting and ephemeral, how can there be attraction towards it? The focus naturally lands on the substratum behind all the changes, and the yearning to know it grows.

    Slokas chanted in the track:
    मन्दमध्यमरूपापि वैराग्येण शमादिना ।
    प्रसादेन गुरोः सेयं प्रवृद्धा सूयते फलम् ॥
    (Vivekachudamani 28)
    अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति ।
    नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 4.40)
    राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् ।
    प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 9.2)
    PR 03 May 2017

    14 min
  • The Need for Dispassion and Yearning for liberation - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In spirituality, what matters are dispassion and yearning for liberation. Even if one does not have dispassion, practice of introspection will bring it. When one understands that the whole world is fleeting and ephemeral, how can there be attraction towards it? The focus naturally lands on the substratum behind all the changes, and the yearning to know it grows.

    Slokas chanted in the track:
    मन्दमध्यमरूपापि वैराग्येण शमादिना ।
    प्रसादेन गुरोः सेयं प्रवृद्धा सूयते फलम् ॥
    (Vivekachudamani 28)
    अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति ।
    नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 4.40)
    राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् ।
    प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 9.2)
    PR 03 May 2017

    14 min
  • Qualities needed for Knowledge-pursuit - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    The existence of the world is depending upon us, the observer or the experiencer. This experientiality is the factor that we have to use in the whole of Vedantic study and pursuit. After hearing this, one should introspect or ruminate over whatever has been heard, until at last the knowledge becomes assimilated. This requires mind to be pure and endowed with virtues like truthfulness and sincerity.

    Slokas chanted in the track:
    एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 13.12)
    PR 03 May 2011

    15 min
  • Cultivate Qualities of Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Every quality is an embellishment, is an ornament, an enrichment to our system. But what is the way to cultivate the qualities of mind and intelligence? Poojya Swamiji gives us a simple formula.

    Slokas chanted in the track:
    मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात विषयान् विषवत्त्यज।
    क्षमार्जवदयातोषसत्यं पीयूषवद्भज ॥
    (Ashtavakra Samhita 1.2)
    PR 03 May 2018

    24 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.