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Poojya Swamiji says that the concept of Advaita rises only when, by in-depth introspection, we are not able to find any justification for the objects, space, and changes to be physically or in reality there. The entire world exists. This existence of the world is actually a feeling, a comprehension in our mind. Mind is actually Consciousness, its expression. This Advaita understanding is not to ne...

The Brahmavidya deeksha is the last thing in human life. Also, without it there cannot be any full fulfillment in human life. Moksha, i.e. liberation and freedom, the last of the four-fold puruhartha, can be had only through this deeksha. How do we accomplish this attainment? We have to get into our own inner personality. This is where the deeksha plays its significant role. PR 24 Oct 2016

In this short audio, Nutan Swamiji helps us understand the difference between ego and ahankara. While the basic ego is essential — as Swamiji says, it is the hub of our personality, coordinating various functions of the senses, body, and mind — ahankara is different. It refers to the sense of doership and enjoyership that we assign to our activities. We are not responsible for our body, mind, or i...

Nutan Swamiji explains that in meditation, we withdraw from all interactions as well as thoughts about the world, the body, and so on. When we completely forget the external world, we are flooded with happiness and bliss. This experience reveals that true bliss comes from within. Once we understand this truth, we see the fallacy of chasing after happiness. In reality, it is our desires that keep u...

We seek happiness from many sources. In reality, everything we do is aimed at achieving happiness. However, our experiences show that we never attain lasting happiness. If we look around the world, we can easily observe that no one has ever become truly happy by pursuing worldly things, yet we persist in believing, "I will be happy if I do this." Through the story of young Bhoja, Nutan Swamiji ill...

Poojya Swamiji traces the development of the Hindu civilisation in our country. It started with prayers, followed by rituals, followed by withdrawal, followed by enquiry and finding in the Upanishads. Hinduism, Swamiji says, is not a religion, but a way of life. The basis of our culture are the Puranas, the Gita, the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the itihasas, namely, the Ramayana and the Mah...

In this talk, Poojya Swamiji gives spiritual tips to combat depression. It is not correct, he says, to keep thinking of negative qualities one might have. Rather one must try to develop the opposite virtues. Reliance on God, particularly based on a mantra, also instills confidence in a person to accept whatever comes in life and move forward. The same God is present in one’s own being. Thinking th...

The mind, intelligence, and the ego, are but the functions of the inner consciousness. In Brahmavidya deeksha, Poojya Swamiji explains, we straightaway enter into the inner consciousness plane. It is primarily an inspiration, a divine inspiration the Guru lets loose in you. Swamiji explains the specifics of the Vedantic meditation to be undertaken after the deeksha. PR 20 Apr 2017

In jñāna niṣṭa, our focus is sublimating, overcoming, outliving, transcending rāga dvesha bhaya. Every word that one utters will be with a view to overcome and sublimate these. Every book one reads will be for this purpose. The tapas becomes jñāna tapas when the ingredients of tapas, austerity are mind and intelligence. PR 03 Mar 2018

Poojya Swamiji explains the nature of Self-realization. It is not just meditative absorption. The realisation of the Self, that is all-pervading, all-permeating, cannot be limited to a realization in the heart. Self-realization is actually a qualitative improvement in the seeker. The quality and character of the mind and intelligence change. The mind becomes purer, the intelligence grows in clarit...

The questioner asks about daily spiritual practices. Swamiji says that daily spiritual practice should be such that some time should be spent away from the objects, trying to interact with the subject. Then our inner personality becomes more and more imbued with the grandeur of the subject. Contemplation on the very source of thought, the thinker and the thinking substance, this is the essential p...

The questioner asks “Who am I”. Swamiji says that the ‘I’ denotes a definite presence in the body to which everything else in this world is related including the body. Our entire spiritual science is based on this ‘I’. It has a magnitude that includes even the universe. In seeking it, the purpose of human life is fulfilled.

The questioner wants to know what is needed to start meditation, and if it involves concentration. Swamiji replies that meditation is a mento-intellectual effort. Thought and reason are the natural focus of meditation. Swamiji explains the process of meditation in steps and the use of an optional thought to lead the seeker to samadhi.

Poojya Swamiji tells us that the knowledge that we gain must act and function in a manner that it removes the stains in our personality. We have to identify with the knowledge. It should become a functional practice, and our Supreme refuge. That is the way of sadhana towards eternal peace. तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणा: । गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषा:  ॥ tad-buddhayas-tad-ā...

Knowledge is supreme in human life, Poojya Swamiji explains. This knowledge is of two kinds – the inferior and the superior. The superior knowledge, the subject knowledge, is about our real identity. Pursuing the attainment of that knowledge is the purpose of the human life. PR 17 Jan 2017

Knowledge is supreme in human life, Poojya Swamiji explains. This knowledge is of two kinds – the inferior and the superior. The superior knowledge, the subject knowledge, is about our real identity. Pursuing the attainment of that knowledge is the purpose of the human life. PR 17 Jan 2017

Swamiji says how this self-realization works and brings about fruition and fulfillment is something we should know. When the mind recedes from desires, the craving for sensory enjoyment drops, the senses are brought under control, the knowledge comes that the Self within can produce all the enjoyment. Such people attain the supreme knowledge of the Self. PR 08 May 2018

In this talk, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha highlights how austerity provides all the sublimity, power, purity, tolerance and forebearance to dedicate one’s life wholesomely for the welfare of others. It is the wisdom and austerity alone that leads to an attitudinal change, dedicating one to perform with mental relaxation, delight and an expansive, cheerful attitude. Swamiji states that this is what th...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha in this Talk, emphasises that Narayanashrama Tapovanam is an abode of spiritual knowledge, exclusively oriented to enrich and purify the mind, intelligence and ego. The Satsang in the Ashram is for Subjective Knowledge, transforming the character, behaviour and interaction by all who apply this Knowledge. This Subjective Knowledge, makes the inner personality free, light,...

In Yoga Vasistha Ramayana, Sage Vasistha enlightens, Sri Rama, that desires are the cause of all bondage. We have latent tendencies and desires coiled up in the mind. Moksha is the extinction of all desires. Swamiji emphasizes that it is possible for the mind to generate contentment by itself. In reality, there is no place or need for desires. Starting with external things, sannyasins renounce luc...

In this Talk, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha discusses the message given by Lord Krishna to Uddhava in the 11th Skanda of Srimad Bhagavatam. Krishna reveals the grand state of renunciation and non-clinging. Swamiji declares that so long as one is bound to a householder’s life, a person is only half human. It is only the fulfillment of the Sannyasa ashrama, where the quest is exclusively for the Absolute...

Swamiji discusses austerity, emphasizing its different levels and forms. Physical austerity involves acts like prostrating before deities, circumambulating temples, and chanting prayers. Moving beyond the physical, a seeker has to take to austerity of the mind. This includes cultivating positive emotions while eliminating negative ones. Finally, one has to employ the intelligence to ponder on prof...

Speaking about austerity, Swamiji says that Tapas (austerity) can be of three levels. The physical Austerity is the elimination of whatever one otherwise does generally, or incorporation of something new which one is not used to doing as a daily routine. Tapas in the mind level is when one introduces a thought or a set of thoughts and try to revolve them in the mind like mantra japa, thinking of G...

In this track, Swamiji speaks about the important quality of austerity. He says that a seeker must reflect upon and understand what it means and live an austere life. True austerity should be of the mind, intelligence and heart. In the level of the mind, austerity means, more and more of purity, less and less of impurity. In intelligence level, it should be more and more of the pursuit of spiritua...

In this track, Swamiji speaks about what an Ashram is and what one can gain from an Ashram. It is always knowledge interaction that takes place in the Ashram. All the knowledge discussed and shared in the Ashram will be knowledge about the inner personality, its characteristics, its potential, its possibilities. Ashram is a place where the knowledge about the subjective part of our personality and...