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    Ma Gurupriya

    The Parting Instructions

    Expectations must become extinct. Liberation is vāsanā-tānavam—extinction of desires. Desires will not fall the way you want, but will fall. Recognize the place for extinction of desires, and allow them to settle.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    What is Dharma?

    The power that sustains your life in good and bad, in prosperity and adversity, in success and failure, is called dharma.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Ambition for Material Success

    Moderation is the watchword for every one of you. Krishna says the Yoga of Bhagavad Gita will become relevant and effective, provided we are moderate. Eat moderately, sleep moderately, exert moderately, listen to moderately and speak moderately.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Contentment is in the Mind

    वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं दुकूलै:सम इव परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेष: ।स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान् को दरिद्र: ।। vayamiha parituṣṭā valkalaistvaṁ dukūlaiḥ sama iva paritoṣo nirviśeṣo viśeṣaḥ |sa tu bhavatu daridro yasya tṛṣṇā viśālā manasi ca parituṣṭe ko'rthavān ko daridraḥ ||

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    Ma Gurupriya

    The Bliss of Non-Expectation

    निष्किंञ्चना मय्यनुरक्तचेतसः शान्ता महान्तोऽखिलजीववत्सलाः। कामैरनालब्धधियो जुषन्ति यत् तन्नैरपेक्ष्यं न विदुः सुखं मम ।। niṣkiṁncanā mayyanuraktacetasaḥ śāntā mahānto'khilajīvavatsalāḥ| kāmairanālabdhadhiyo juṣanti yat tannairapekṣyaṁ na viduḥ sukhaṁ mama ||

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    Ma Gurupriya

    The State of Fullness

    पूर्णे मनसि संपूर्णं जगत्सर्वं सुधाद्रवैः।
    उपानद्-गूढपादस्य ननु चर्मास्तृतैव भूः ॥
    pūrṇe manasi sampūrṇaṃ jagat-sarvaṃ sudhādravai: |
    upānad-gūḍhapādasya nanu carmāstṛtaiva bhū: ||

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Mind, meditation and the goal

    It is only to inculcate purity that all the religious and spiritual practices and disciplines have been evolved. Through all these practices, once purity is attained, meditational absorption will become easy and spontaneous.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Mind is the source of everything

    If you are able to sublimate desire, intolerance and fear, the mind becomes most flexible, most refined and delightful. It is a very, very simple process.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Fulfillment

    Fulfillment will be had when the mind is properly treated to become pure and the hindrances to fulfillment are removed. And, when the mind is properly developed to have fulfillment, will it need any of these external objects, situations or possessions?

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Desirelessness

    We are born with an insufficiency or lack that makes us look for happiness. We are born with the delusion that something from the world will fulfil that lack, will make us happy.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Post-Meditative Sadhana

    For Jnana, meditation is a necessary step. But, for getting the Knowledge established, to become a Jnanin, the seeker has to outlive meditation and practise a continuous and wholesome sadhana.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Realizing the Atma

    The existence of the Atma is always absolute. Its manner of expression includes that which you call ‘the world’. This is the truth. But this truth will remain a mystery until the seeker’s mind becomes crystal clear, desire-free and stable under all conditions. The least trace of impurity any time will impair his vision

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