Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

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

  • Mind Can Dissolve All Mental Impacts - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this audio, Swamiji points out that the skill and ability of the mind is limitless. Mind is capable of assimilating any kind of an impact from the world. The mind will dissolve only mental impacts and these impacts are made by the mind, not by any object. Mind alone sees the world. Mind alone forges an imprint on it and mind alone feels the impact. So, everything is the mind and mind alone is the sole focus of spiritual wisdom.

    The more assimilative the mind becomes, more the structure of the mind will change. The seeker must always strive to nurture and develop the mind. There are only two skills needed to live successfully in the world: 1) To assimilate all impacts from the world and 2) To generate all necessary outputs from the mind,

    15 min
  • Four Levels of Activity - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Human activity is primarily in four levels, says Swamiji in this track. The first is the physical level where activity is performed with the body, limbs and sensory organs. Next is the oral activity where sounds are produced. Superior to these external activities is the mental activity where the thinking, remembering etc are done by the mind. Still higher and deeper is the activity done by the intelligence where there is a quest for knowledge.

    Swamiji exhorts all seekers to evaluate and understand the two inner activities–the activities performed by the mind and intelligence. They constitute the deepest and loftiest levels of activity which have a transforming effect on the personality of the seeker.

    13 min
  • Mind and the Self - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this message, Swamiji says that all actions are initiated by the mind, sustained by the mind and dissolved by the mind. So, mind is the sole focus of an individual’s life.

    Normally, the mind is outgoing. This outgoing tendency has to be avoided and the seeker must make an effort to rest the mind on the Self. When the mind rests on the Self, it will slowly give up desires for external objects. When the mind becomes free of external desires, the Self experience one has will not be limited to meditational hours but it will extend to all activities and interactions.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    यथा यथा प्रत्यगवस्थितं मनः
    तथा तथा मुञ्चति बाह्यवासनाम् ।
    निःशेषमोक्षे सति वासनानां
    आत्मानुभूतिः प्रतिबन्धशून्या ॥
    (Vivekacūḍāmaṇiḥ 276)

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

    In this message, Swamiji urges seekers to understand that the focus of spirituality is the ‘Mind’. By any extent of mind’s productions, the mind substance is not affected.

    One has to sit and observe the mind and understand that any kind of a mental activity does not bring about a structural change in the mind. The mind presence continues to be the same.
    Remaining silent in oneself, one can feel the presence of the mind and realize that no function of the mind affects the mind itself. Realizing this unaffected nature of the mind, one must remain unaffected. The entire sadhana is to gain this wonderful position of enlightenment, stability and steadiness.

    14 min
  • Make Light of All Situations - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this audio, Swamiji exhorts all seekers to be at home with everything that happens in life.

    Maybe in the past sins or mistakes were committed but one should not worry about it. One must have a light mind. One must not magnify any troubles or irritations. Our mind has got full capacity to be at home with everything, either past, present, or future. It is the mind that has to reconcile with whatever has taken place or is going to take place. Our mind has got sufficient potential for that. One must have faith and remain unruffled. A seeker needs to keep developing the right knowledge, devotion and sublimity.

    14 min
  • No Thought is besides and different from the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji discusses and explains the three levels of Reality–Vyāvahārika (Interactional), Prātibhāsika (illusory) and Pāramārthika. All the three are there concurrently or parallel in us. When we are wakeful it is Vyāvahārika reality, when we are dreaming it is illusory reality, and when we are able to understand it fully it becomes the real reality.

    In the Vyāvahārika level things are different from us and plurality is there. In the dream, difference is there but it is in an illusory manner and when one understands the Truth in the level of the intelligence, he will find that all are but one and one alone is.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    एकं रूपं बहुधा यः करोति
    (Kathopanishad 2.2.12)

    13 min
  • Harmonizing the mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Swamiji says that the body and the senses are inert. It has to be animated and activated by the mind and the intelligence. Our real personality is the mento-intellectual one. So, all the reformation, enrichment and refinement have to be brought about in the mind and the intelligence.

    A seeker wanting to have freedom and fulfilment, will have to improve and nourish the mind and intelligence. This refinement and enrichment cannot be had by any external rituals or practices.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ।
    आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥
    Bhagavad Gita २-१४॥
    यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ ।
    समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
    Bhagavad Gita २-१५॥

    11 min
  • World - A Mind Display - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this message, Swamiji speaks about Hindu Dharma and the two personalities around whom it prevails. One is Sri Rama and the other is Sri Krishna. In Sri Rama’s life, we find that the greatness of the human mind consists in the sacrifice it is able to generate.

    Sri Krishna repeatedly emphasizes to Uddhava (In Srimad Bhagavatam) that the whole world is nothing but a display of the mind. The prime emphasis of his teaching is on the illusory nature of the world. Everything is the mind display, and mind itself is an expression of consciousness. This consciousness is the Supreme truth, and that alone is God.

    14 min
  • The Growth of Mind and Intelligence - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Swamiji makes us understand that the body stops growing at the age of 21 and the mind and intelligence are the only faculties that need to grow after that. So, in human life, the sole focus has to be on the mind.

    Knowledge of the mind and intelligence and their function is the Subject Knowledge. In subject knowledge, we aim to enhance the skill, the ability, the performance of the mind and the intelligence.
    How to improve the mind and intelligence? The mind is nourished and improved, when we incorporate desirable qualities and eliminate undesirable qualities. To nourish the intelligence, one has to develop the art of introspection.

    18 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.