Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

By Narayanashrama Tapovanam, An abode of BrahmavidyaReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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  • The Greatest discovery of the World | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    We always think that something outside us will make us happy. But the truth is that nothing from outside can ever make us permanently happy. The ancient rishis of our land, discovered this fundamental truth and in their effort to discover the source of permanent happiness, they turned within, leaving everything else. They discovered that when everything was forgotten, including own personality, they were flooded with joy. They realized that happiness is the natural property of our inmost presence.

    Nutan Swamiji says, this is the greatest discovery in the world as with this, our insufficiency feeling is eliminated. The person becomes fulfilled and intelligence becomes satisfied.

    10 min
  • Going beyond likes and dislikes | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    In this beautiful talk, Nutan Swamiji tells us that fulfilment in life will come only when we are able to go beyond our likes and dislikes. Swamiji narrates an incident in Ashram where Poojya Swamiji had an animated conversation with a group of village hooligans, which made a great impression on him and made him realize what it means to go beyond likes and dislikes. Later, Nutan Swamiji took up the Construction work in Ashram, much against his personal dislike. This is Spiritual life; life beyond likes and dislikes.

    11 min
  • Treasure of Contentment | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma Gurupriya

    Ma narrates a heart-touching story of an old beggar who came to the Ashram and her interaction with him. Ma says, there is a fountain of joy within us, if we go within and touch that, it will always be happiness. One who is contented with what he has, is the richest man!

    Sloka Chanted:
    न खिद्यते नो विषयैः प्रमोदते
    न सज्जते नापि विरज्यते च ।
    स्वस्मिन्सदा क्रीडति नन्दति स्वयं
    निरन्तरानन्दरसेन तृप्तः॥
    Vivekachudamani 536

    6 min
  • Renunciation is Renouncing the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Through the conversation between Kumbha and the ascetic king Shikhidwaja, Swamiji explains what is ‘Renunciation’. He says Renunciation is of the mind – as everything is felt by the mind, experienced by the mind. The mind, being consciousness, has got infinite powers. By virtue of these powers, it produces the gross objects, preserves them and makes us experience them. Thus, everything is a mental creation – in the mind by the mind. It is such a mind that we have to renounce. Renouncing the mind means renouncing the ego, ‘I’ feeling. Ego is the seed from which the whole world tree is spreading forth.

    The mind has the power and potential to produce and unproduce anything. Throughout the wakefulness, it spreads, extends and becomes, but at the end of the day it folds up into sleep, where there is no world, no ego is there. The world rises in the mind and sets in the mind. All the thoughts arise in the mind and also get dissolved into the mind.
    We want to reach a state where the idea of a thought itself becomes a non-entity. The same mind which becomes doubtful, can be happy and clear. It is possible for us to use our discrimination to understand this wonderful Sadhana and be benefitted by it.
    PR 20 Jan 2015

    12 min
  • Delve Into the Thought Process - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji speaks comprehensively about our Mind, its power and potential. We suffer from ignorance or delusion about the self and our mind. This Ignorance is what is to be removed by proper pursuit of knowledge, by probing into the mind and intelligence and by enquiring about the Self.

    What we need is a kind of mind in which all thoughts are always enlightening and informative and not affecting or agitating. By proper introspection, one must understand that mind and its thought are the same in substance. The thought is no different from the mind.
    One must be able to delve into the thought process, mind process and understand that there is only one Presence there. A seeker must meditate only to recognize this one presence, exhorts Swamiji.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः ।
    तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 5.16
    PR 19 Jun 2016

    16 min
  • World Experiences are Only Mental Imprints - II - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this audio, Swamiji says that the mind uses or employs the eyes to see the objects, to grasp them. At the grasping level, the mind is the source and cause. Then, after or in the grasping process, all the objects are imprinted by the mind itself. It is these imprints that one is experiencing.

    Once this is understood – there will be Nirapeksha (non-expectation) in the mind. One will think: “Can my mind desire its own imprints? If everything is mental and mind born and mind imprint, then what is there to be desired?” Nirvikarah (unchanging) – one will understand that the mind cannot be affected by its own imprint? This kind of reflection makes the mind cool, comfortable, and calm.
    Swamiji urges seekers to make the Buddhi deep and expansive. The only yearning in the mind must be to know the Self, one’s own real nature.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    tvayā vyāptam-idam viśvam tvayi protam yathārthataḥ ।।
    Ashtavakra Gita 1.16
    निरपेक्षो निर्विकारो निर्भरः शीतलाशयः ।
    अगाधबुद्धिरक्षुब्धो भव चिन्मात्रवासनः ॥
    Ashtavakra Gita 1.17
    PR 19 Jan 2016

    12 min
  • Affluence of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji discusses Yogavasishtha Ramayana which tells us explicitly that the mind is an expression of the self. It is this mind that has to be tackled. Besides the mind, there is no other faculty a seeker has to focus his attention during the sadhana.

    Mind has a number of traits likes- dislikes, preference-prejudices, acceptance-rejection, desire-hatred, which only cause us distress. The mind has great potential. Atma has to be known and accessed by the mind itself. A seeker has to introduce desirable qualities in the mind. When the mind has the noble qualities, it gets transformed.
    Yoga Vasistha repeatedly stresses that one must be uniform with one’s own mind expressions. One must not prefer anything unduly, as a result of which one will dislike some other things. One must make the mind even and uniform in its responses, try to make it flexible and soft. So, one must treat the mind with a kind of universal evenness and fondness, treat it with a habit of tolerating, understanding and forbearing inputs from the world. If the mind becomes thinner, flexible, purer more and more sublime, one will start finding a contentment, fulfilment. The mind should be like an ocean which can withstand any waviness on the surface.
    By truthful introspection, the mind can have poise, flexibility, expansion, depth, loftiness, a sense of affluence and sufficiency. Mental affluence makes one the richest man in the world. One can directly make the mind affluent, resourceful and sufficient.
    PR 23 Sep 2007

    11 min
  • Mind Is The Source Of Everything - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji clarifies that our mind is not a physical part of the body. It is associated with the body. Body is inert but mind and intelligence are not inert.

    Our eyes are the smallest organs in our body, but they can see infinite distances. The power and presence that have made the eyes, the hands, skull and brain, its potential and greatness is infinite. When we refer to the mind and intelligence, we refer to the potential of this PRESENCE. One never sees the world outside. It is the mind that takes the mental imprint, and that imprint is what we experience. So, in the experience of the world, the mind is crucial.
    The mind produces many thoughts, emotions, reactions, knowledge and doubts. All are mental products alone. Whatever the mind produces, they do not affect the mind. Every interaction produces only two impacts in the mind–pleasant-unpleasant, happiness-unhappiness. They are mind’s products and once they are assimilated by the mind, they cannot affect the mind.
    Swamiji urges everyone to feel the presence of the mind, far more than the world outside. One must think about the mind, probe into it more and more. The three states, Sleep, dream and wakefulness, are also a product of mind.
    PR 24 April 2016

    12 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.