Bhoomananda Foundation

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...

Poojya Swamiji delves into the need for development and nourishment of qualities which enrich our inner personality. Only a guileless heart can know the Self. Thus, the values like straightforwardness, truthfulness, etc. become very important in the spiritual journey. PR 12 Sep 2011

Poojya Swamiji speaks about the glory of this austerity of Brahmacharya, what mental bhava is required for its practice, and how it is one of the greatest offerings to God. Slokas chanted in the track यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति। (Bhagavad Gita 8.11) PR 05 Jun 2015

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

Our perception of the world, our response to it, and the joy or sorrow, these are all the products of the mind. Hence, if we can train our mind to produce good thoughts, it will be always joyful. PR 01 Aug 2012

Poojya Swamiji emphasises how it is important to appreciate the qualities and virtues in others. Not only it will make us want to have the virtue in ourselves, but the mere sight of good virtues will give us joy. Slokas chanted in the track वाञ्छा सज्जनसङ्गमे परगुणे प्रीतिर्गुरौ नम्रता (Niti Shatakam 62) PR 01 Apr 2015

Poojya Swamiji enlightens us that the core of our personality, the 'I', is always a non-actor and a non-doer. The inner presence not just fills the body, but it fills the entire creation. It is like the space which supports all planets and stars. All actions are done only at the bodily and sensory level; the inner presence ever remains a witness of all.

Sri Krishna says that the kind of person who merges with Him is one who does everything for God, who thinks of God as supreme in his life, who is an exclusive devotee of God, and devoid of all attachments. Poojya Swamiji says that the entire sadhana is related to acquiring these qualities in the mind and intelligence by which we gain the true identity of ourselves. Slokas chanted in the track: (Ti...

Poojya Swamiji explains what is meant by a quality and gives two definitions, one is an inherent constituent or definition of an object, and another is something that qualifies the object/person. A good quality strengthens the personality, makes it more functional. Is there any alternative but to love it, asks Swamiji. This fondness for the quality is what helps in cultivating the quality. Slokas...

Poojya Swamiji explains the difference between pratyaksha (directly perceptible to the senses) and paroksha (inferential). Then he goes on to explain how we need to expand our mind so that we can embrace the entire world and not just the immediate family. With this expansion, the mind becomes pure, and the seeker starts gaining the qualities of a knower, a mahatma. That leads to the transcendental...

Bhagavad Gita speaks about Renunciation. Tyaga and Sannyasa are the main two subjects of the Bhagavad Gita. The questions thus arises as to how to accomplish this Tyaga and Sannyasa? How does it reflect in our Interactions? Can Interactional Sadhana accomplish it? The entire world is designed by God, preserved by God. We play no part in it. But we still feel a sense of doership and enjoyership. A...

Bhagavad Gita speaks about Renunciation. Tyaga and Sannyasa are the main two subjects of the Bhagavad Gita. The questions thus arises as to how to accomplish this Tyaga and Sannyasa? How does it reflect in our Interactions? Can Interactional Sadhana accomplish it? The entire world is designed by God, preserved by God. We play no part in it. But we still feel a sense of doership and enjoyership. A...

Discussing some verses from the Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji discusses Yoga in great depth and detail. We interact with the world and everything that follows is an outcome of interactions. The sense organs on their own do not have the power to function, without the guidance of the mind. So, our entire life is based on the mind. This mind can be acted upon only by the intelligence which has knowledge as...

Swamiji urges us to think about the propositions of saakara, niraraka and nischala, spending time to understand them. It is by this that we will be able to increase our devotion. Explaining a verse from Ashtavakra Samhita, Swamiji says that anything that has a shape or a form is to be considered as untrue, unreal. That which is devoid of shape is niścala, immovable, motionless. Only when one has...

In this enlightening talk, Nutan Swamiji tells us that all strife we find in the society is due to our own selfishness, comptetition, jealousy etc. We think 'I' is a body limited personality. That 'I' is a ficticious 'I', we assume a certain image of ourselves. We have a bias and partiality in our vision. This constricted vision brings all strife in the society. But when we...

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, th...

Narrating an incident from her life, Ma enlightens us that all our unhappiness and misery is due to our desires and expectations. A seeker should completely remove the desires as it is a bondage. Liberation lies in elimination of desires.

Describing an incident in the life of Poonthanam, a great devotee of Lord Guruvayurappan, Nutan Swamiji enlightens us that real bhakti means surrender; taking complete refuge in lord. And the proof and test for our surrender is the complete acceptance of whatever happens in our life.

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 th...

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...

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...

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...

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 m...

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....

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, w...