Bhoomananda Foundation

(From the discourse series titled: Bhagavad Gita – A comprehensive guide for living, given by Nutan Swamiji during the Jamshedpur Retreat in Oct-Nov 2013) The human being is always running in pursuit of happiness. But this happiness is always sought from the multiplicity of the outside world, which being temporary, is unable to give lasting happiness. In order to remain permanently happy, the Bhag...

(From the discourse series titled: Bhagavad Gita – A comprehensive guide for living, given by Nutan Swamiji during the Jamshedpur Retreat in Oct-Nov 2013) Nutan Swamiji reveals why Vyasa deva chose the background of a warfield for the Bhagavad Gita instead of a peaceful setting. This scientific scripture brings home the message that spirituality is not only to be practised away from the world of a...

Poojya Swamiji emphasizes that in the object hemisphere there are only two factors–matter and energy. The conscious factor is the third and can be traced only in one’s own living body. Consciousness is different from matter and energy. Consciousness constitutes the subject and manifests as the mind, intelligence and ego. A seeker only has to know this consciousness that animates and activates the...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha elaborates on the simple and comprehensive nature of spirituality. When we get up in the morning, we start interacting with objects. These interactions are because of the interacting subject. Because our focus is on the objects, we miss the subject. Any action rests, subsists and concludes in the mind, but we are not aware of it. A seeker must infuse the subject in all int...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha speaks about how in meditation one is aware of one’s own mind, thoughts. In this state one is aware of even nothingness. Swamiji exhorts us to know the inmost presence as the sentience, self luminous Source, non divided into concepts of subject and object. Such a discovery of the omnipresent self, by an inner probe in meditation, makes mind and intelligence grow and become...

In this audio, Swamiji says that the one that we refer to ‘I’ is itself what we seek in spirituality. So do we have to seek it? No! It is already there, we are always saying “I am”. There is no time when one is disconnected from the ‘I’, even in the state of unconsciousness. When we know it, the seeking itself terminates and one will be constantly in a state of awareness. Self-Knowledge is far dif...

Mind is capable of producing a variety of emotions, all of which can be enquired into. In Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says that all emotions can be made subject of spiritual enquiry. An enquirer usually starts enquiring into three things–what is this world? Who am I? Who is God? Hindu dharma clearly says and proves, that all the three enquiries mean the same thing. Whether one enquires into the sub...

Our entire life is based on the three different states of mind or consciousness–the wakeful state, sleep and dream state. In the wakeful state, the sensory organs perceive and interact with sensory objects. The whole world is there only when one wakes up. When the mind wakes up, a number of objects are perceived. All objects get reflected in the sphere of the mind. The same mind wipes off all obje...

In this track, Swamiji says that all our experiences are in the level of the mind. Both the body and the world are experienced by the mind. All experiences belong to and are created by the mind. Mind is unlike matter and energy. Being consciousness, sentience, it has got the inscrutable power of putting up any kind of a projection, display or manifestation. It manifests the wakefulness. It manifes...

Our body is an aggregate of matter and energy, and it does not have the power and potential to know, think, or decide. Our thinkers realized that rituals, prayers and hymns could not give them the answers they were seeking and therefore they took to contemplation and enquiry with the mind and intelligence. This enquiry led them to question whether there was anything imperishable in the changeful w...

In this track, Swamiji speaks about the unimaginable spiritual dimension in us. There is a dimension within us which does not belong to either matter or energy. It belongs to something called Consciousness. Consciousness is that which is capable of being Conscious of itself and of others. The Consciousness itself becomes Conscious of itself, and that is why we say ‘I’ and for saying ‘I’ we do not...

An exalted subjective worship and prostration is described by Swamiji in this talk. After listening with all sincerity and fidelity to Sage Ashtavakra, King Janaka declares the magnitude, magnificence and potential of the immortal spiritual Presence ‘I’. The body, thoughts, emotions, intelligence, ego are merely matter, energy presence, mere objects. Even the perceived world is a mere perception o...

In this beautiful talk, Swamiji again recapitulates the concise and rare statements of Yajnavalkya. When the Consciousness or Brahman manifests through the body-mind personality, then we have the awareness. When the body falls, the individual Self gets merged in the Universal Consciousness. Swamiji discusses the last and beautiful verse which says that this Consciousness is indeed beyond all duali...

In this talk, Swamiji continues to discuss the verses where Yajnavalkya is trying to help Maitreyi understand the Supreme Truth with the help of various examples. Swamiji makes us understand the difficult and profound verses and helps us grasp the core message in each of them. Discussing various examples of the Upanishad, Swamiji helps us to understand that the Infinite and manifold creation has e...

In this talk, Swamiji continues to unravel the loftiest and most beautiful truths exposed by Sage Yajnavalkya to Maitreyi. Swamiji says all problems of our existence arise due to our identity crisis. We feel that we are the limited body-mind personality. This constriction makes us small and separate from others. We reject others on the basis of our likes and dislikes. Swamiji gives us a remedy for...

Swamiji continues to discuss Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which takes us to a lofty level of understanding. Yajnavalkya through his first message treats Maitreyi’s attachment for him (her husband) and her fear of the impending separation. He says that we love our spouse, children and other worldly objects for our own sake, our own fulfillment and happiness. Swamiji dives deep into this subject of man’...

In this talk, Swamiji continues with the discussion of the conversation between Sage Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi. Yajnavalkya took a decision to take up a life of renunciation. Before his departure, Maitreyi, being a true seeker, sought the knowledge of the Truth. Observing Matreyi’s dispassion and her keenness of seeking, Yajnavalkya agreed to impart the self knowledge to her. His only condition was...

In this discourse, Swamiji takes up a very significant portion of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad--the conversation between Sage Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi. Swamiji introduces us to the couple who are about to have the most erudite and profound discussion. Yajnavalkya wants to renounce household life and take up sannyasa and pursue the higher goal of life. Towards this end, he decides to divide his propert...

Quoting a verse from Ashtavakra Samhita, Swamiji, establishes us in the knowledge that was imparted to King Janaka by Sage Ashtavakra. A seeker must abide in the changeless, non-differential ‘I’ which is the singular Subject, the Witness, the seer of all. All the external world of objects, sense organs, thoughts, emotions, intellect, memories are only objects and the seen, which are ever-changing....

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, in this talk, reveals the essence of the message of Ashtavakra Samhita. After sage Ashtavakra imparted to him the knowledge of the Soul, King Janaka sincerely grasped and assimilated it. King Janaka, then, started relating his own direct, intuitive experience. He declares that he is taintless, peaceful, non-agitated. He is the sentience, consciousness, superior to Prakrit...

Swamiji says that a seeker must evaluate the role of mind and intelligence in the spiritual pursuit. He quotes a verse from Ashtavakra Samhita, which says: You are the ‘drashta’ (the seer) of all. The seer of the entire infinitude is only one. If you are the seer or witness, how can you have bondage? Such an infinite, universal dimension of thinking, gives peace, fearlessness, doubtlessness and to...

Swamiji details how only by application of the Supreme Transcendental Wisdom of Consciousness, can the mind become flexible, resilient, reconciling and be in perfect harmony with all the conflicts and contradictions that the world presents – be they pure or impure. To elucidate this topic, Swamiji quotes the dialogue between Nachiketas with Lord Yamaraja and the message of Lord Shiva to Sage Vasis...

In this track, Swamiji speaks about the all-encompassing Consciousness. The whole universe is shining in one’s own consciousness within! Our consciousness doesn’t have a colour, shape or weight. The whole universe is shining within this. We are the untransforming, all-reflecting, blissful consciousness. Consciousness is that by virtue of which we become conscious of other things and of ourselves....

Spiritual truths are those which are based on one’s inmost being. Our mind is not a part of the body, as it is neither material nor energial. This is the mystery of creation, reveals Poojya Swamiji. The whole world is an illusion, and the Self alone is the reality. Every experience is inner and mental, whatever the object and its size may be. All are experienced by us, in us. The power within us h...

Poojya Swamiji begins this talk by referring to the Upanishadic age wherein our predecessors evolved the knowledge and wisdom of the Upanishads by their thought process. The attention that was on the world gradually turned inward with the realization that it is all revealed by our own mind. Shifting our focus from the objective world to the subject, which is the source, and unearthing the magnitud...