Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

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

  • Culturing a Buoyant Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this talk, Poojya Swamiji takes up the subject of the potential of the mind. We all have things in our past which have the capacity to hurt or victimize us in the present. By the right thought process, by the right emotional process, by the right spiritual process, all that can be simply dropped and the mind can start becoming lustrous and brilliant. One is not to be victimized by the memory of the past; one has to be encouraged by the possibility of the present.

    Swamiji emphasizes that If one wants to get into the actual sādhanā, one has to penetrate into the mind. You can think, “Any kind of a past I have, I will simply dispossess it. I will develop and culture a new present, a new mind.”

    12 min
  • Imbibe Qualities to Make Your Mind Flexible - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    The entire spirituality is mind-centered, says Swamiji. One has to constantly try improving the mind, building and imbuing the mind with newer and newer qualities.

    When the mind cultivates qualties such as love, sympathy, sacrifice etc, it will become vast and expansive. Mind is currently inflexible and hard. The same mind can be made flexible, spatial, ready to assimiate all interactional impacts.
    Shlokas chanted in this audio:
    आकाशवल्लेपविदूरगोऽहं
    आदित्यवद्भास्यविलक्षणोऽहम् ।
    अहार्यवन्नित्यविनिश्चलोऽहं
    अम्भोधिवत्पारविवर्जितोऽहम् ॥
    Vivekachudamani–499

    11 min
  • Sadhana for wholesomeness and fulfilment - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
    Analyzing the inner personality, Swamiji explains that our personality consists of the mind, intelligence, ego and the substratum of all these–the SELF. With such a personality we are complete, full and wholesome. To understand that this is so and to make our mind and intelligence reflect the fullness and wholesomeness is the real effort and sādhanā.
    We have to understand that the whole of spiritual sadhana is centered in the mind. It is the mind that begets experience, it is the mind that distorts matters, and it is the mind that becomes pure and brings clarity.
    Shlokas chanted in the track:
    मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय ।
    निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः ।।
    Bhagavad Gita–12.8
    PR 04 Jan 2013
    12 min
  • Solution lies within - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Poojya Swamiji speaks on how a seeker should approach every challenge in life. One has to elevate oneself from emotional turbulence to rational enquiry–from the mind level to the intelligence level.

    For every problem, there is a solution right beneath the problem in the inner recess of the mind itself. If there is a problem, there is also a solution. If there is no solution, at least there is a dissolution of the problem. The whole process revolves around our own inner personality.
    Shlokas chanted in this track:
    कस्मिन्नु भगवो विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवतीति ॥
    kasminnu bhagavo vijñāte sarvamidaṃ vijñātaṃ bhavatīti ||
    Mundakopanishad–1.1.3

    13 min
  • Solution lies within - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    In this track, Poojya Swamiji speaks on how a seeker should approach every challenge in life. One has to elevate oneself from emotional turbulence to rational enquiry–from the mind level to the intelligence level.

    For every problem, there is a solution right beneath the problem in the inner recess of the mind itself. If there is a problem, there is also a solution. If there is no solution, at least there is a dissolution of the problem. The whole process revolves around our own inner personality.
    Shlokas chanted in this track:
    कस्मिन्नु भगवो विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवतीति ॥
    kasminnu bhagavo vijñāte sarvamidaṃ vijñātaṃ bhavatīti ||
    Mundakopanishad–1.1.3

    13 min
  • The Thought is nothing but the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Mind is the cause of bondage and liberation, the scriptures state. What is the nature of the mind, and what is its relationship with thought? What leads to liberation? Poojya Swamiji explores these and other questions related to the mind in this short talk.

    Slokas chanted in the track
    मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ।
    (Amritabindu Upanishad 2)
    न कश्चिज्जायते जीवः सम्भवोऽस्य न विद्यते ।
    एतत्तदुत्तमं सत्यं यत्र किञ्चिन्न जायते ॥
    (Gaudapada Karika 3.48)
    PR 12 May 2017

    16 min
  • A Desireless Mind is Liberated - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Mind alone is the cause of bondage for human beings, the scriptures say. They go on to explain how a desireful mind is impure and a mind freed of desires is pure. The objective is to give up all desires and “do nothing”. That is the direction in which we need to move.

    Slokas chanted in the track
    मनो हि द्विविधं प्रोक्तं शुद्धं चाशुद्धमेव च ।
    अशुद्धं कामसङ्कल्पं शुद्धं कामविवर्जितम् ॥
    (Amritabindu Upanishad 1)
    न ह्यसन्न्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 6.2)
    मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ।
    बन्धाय विषयासक्तं मुक्त्यै निर्विषयं स्मृतम् ॥
    (Amritabindu Upanishad 2)
    आत्मसंस्थं मनः कृत्वा न किञ्चिदपि चिन्तयेत् ॥
    (Bhagavad Gita 6.25)
    PR 05 May 2018

    9 min
  • The Law of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih

    The mind has a wonderful quality. Whatever one thinks of, the mind becomes that. This is the foundation of infusional sadhana which Poojya Swamiji explains in detail.

    Slokas chanted in the track:
    मनसैव मनश्छित्त्वा कुठारेणेव पादपम् ।
    पदं पावनमासाद्य सद्य एव स्थिरो भव ॥
    (Yoga-Vasistha Ramayanam 5.13.35)
    या मतिः सा गतिर्भवेत् ॥
    (Ashtavakra Samhita 11)
    चित्तं चिद्भक्षितं कृत्वा चित्तादपि परो भव ॥
    (Yoga-Vasistha Ramayanam 5.111.18)
    PR 03 Jun 2018

    13 min
  • Integrate the mind - Prabhatha Rashmih

    In this audio, Swamiji emphsizes that a seeker has to understand that the first and the last factor to be dealt with is the mind.

    The problem is that we are not conscious of the fact that it is the mind that is to be handled. A seeker has to integrate mind’s own products and reactions. Any kind of a spiritual seeking and a spiritual effort will be an effort to look into the mind and make its reactions uniform, without swinging between likes and dislikes, loss and gain etc.

    6 min
  • Mind is a Treasure - Prabhatha Rashmih

    Just as there are physical, chemical and biological laws governing the physical universe, there are psychological, philosophical and spiritual laws working within us. As per these laws, everything is going on, one plan after another, events happen and become past. We have to be reconciled with whatever is and will be. We must realize that our mind is something very beautiful, splendid, a treasure. It is our greatest friend, not our enemy.

    PR 03 Nov 2013

    13 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.