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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...

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 intell...

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...

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 m...

Vishnusahasranama Stotram.

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 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...

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 spiritu...

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 leas...

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 leas...

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 । एतत्तदु...

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...

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 ॥ (Yo...

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 react...

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....

In this sublime talk, Nutan Swamiji brings home the essential truth that every perception, every experience gives us the touch of the Supreme Presence. Although the world is full of variety, when it comes to our experience within, all of it is experienced as Consciousness alone. Ruminating and actualizing this knowledge, will bring about a great transformation in our attitude towards life!

All of us worship God, in our own ways. But is that worship reaching God? What constitutes a real worship? Is worship only a time and space bound activity? Or does it have much larger application? In this enlightening talk, Ma answers all these questions and gives us a clear understanding of true worship.

Is not our entire life providence-driven? Knowing this, let us train our mind to be contented with what it has and gets. Poojya Swamiji explains to us the secret of contentment and fulfillment in life. Slokas chanted in the track यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः । समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते ॥ (Bhagavad Gita 4.22) PR 12 May 2018

How can the process of japa lead to the purification of mind and cultivation of virtues? Poojya Swamiji explains in this short talk. PR 05 May 2016

Apart from the world of five elements, we have only mind, intelligence and ego. While at the bodily level, the possibility of changes is limited, at the mental level, the options are infinite. One way to bring about those changes, that Swamiji speaks about, is to remain connected to the source of all thoughts. Slokas chanted in the track: भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च । अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भि...

The cheerfulness and joy of the mind are lost because of the desire and possessiveness. Dropping the latter will make the mind pure and consequently vibrant. Slokas chanted in the track: प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम् । उपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम् ॥ (Bhagavad Gita 6.27) PR 02 Jan 2016

All the interactions proceed from the mind, and the impacts are felt by the mind. Mind is the seat of all thoughts, emotions, feelings of happiness and unhappiness, etc. Such being the case, it is the mind alone which has to be made beautiful, sublime, placid and serene. The whole spirituality is nothing but an effort to improve and strengthen the mind. PR 2 Apr 2015

Poojya Swamiji says, “Whatever we call virtue, whatever we call ethics, whatever we call inner embellishment, enrichment, it is all to strengthen the mind and give it more and more health. Unless you understand this point and spend every day some time to enrich the mind subjectively and spiritually, you will not have a healthy and a joyous life.” PR 1 Jun 2012

The mind’s function is to produce thoughts just as legs do the walking. We just have to get into the thought process and understand it. We need to spiritualize the mind. Slokas chanted in the track लये संबोधयेच्चित्तं विक्षिप्तं शमयेत्पुनः । (Mandukya Karika 3.44) मनसैव मनश्छित्त्वा कुठारेणेव पादपम् । (Yoga Vasistha 5.13.35) PR 1 Jul 2017

One must be conscious of one’s mind because it is only the mind that gives us the notion of the world, notion of oneself and notion of everything. Out of the stored memories, mind produces thoughts, some desirable, some not. How do we get away from the obsession of thoughts? In this talk, Swamiji tells us the way.