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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Soothing a Troubled Mind

    An enlightening, moving and heart-warming correspondence between Nutan Swamiji and a young girl, which addresses the difficulties of many intellectuals.

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    From External God to our own Mind

    The real purpose of all religious as well as spiritual practices is to purify and transform our own mind.

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    How to recognise a Guru?

    A time comes in the life of a serious seeker, when he eagerly seeks the ultimate and feels the need for one path guided by one Guru. Holding on to one is important in making the divergent mind convergent.

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    Our life in those days (Pārvati Story)

    A routine work I really loved was to look after the animals of the Ashram – the cows and the calves, to which I later added the team of squirrels, birds, cats and kittens. I used to take the cows and the calves for grazing, feed the cats, squirrels and the birds timely everyday, give them names and talk to them lovingly in Bengali.

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    Vairāgya

    Vairāgya makes our mind free of possessiveness and selfishness. It liberates us from the fear of losing what we like and facing what we dislike, from preferential clinging and prejudicial intolerance.

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    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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    Bhagavad Gita for Personality Transformation

    Right from birth, we are slave to our attraction and repulsion towards worldly objects and situations. Our mind constantly undergoes elation, depression, and agitation, depending on whether the objective situation we face is to our liking or disliking. We are fearful of losing what we like and facing what we dislike. Bhagavadgeeta wants us to transform this slavery into mastery by cultivating the “Yoga” attitude.

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