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    Ma Gurupriya

    The path to Peace and Confidence

    Bring the message of Bhagavad Gita into your lives. One should not just study Bhagavad Gita; one must live it.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Permanent happiness

    When the intelligence is applied, it throws light into the situations, showing us that there is no permanent happiness in anything of the world.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Dealing with challenges effectively

    When we have challenges, when we are in trouble, we do not think of God. We brood and complain and say, “Why me?”

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Spirituality and Science—Is there a conflict?

    From the time I stepped onto this path, there was a new meaning in my life.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Dealing with Doubt

    Doubt is nothing new. Krishna made Arjuna introspect over his doubt and grief and automatically the doubt vanished.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Handling difficult interactions

    Why does interaction become difficult at times? It is because of raga-dvesha (likes and dislikes). We like some people and are happy to be with them. Some we don’t like, so we do not want to interact with them.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Science and Spirituality

    In spirituality the ‘I’ in us, the inmost Truth of our being, is finally discovered as God. So, spiritual sadhana starts when we stop looking outside and start looking within to find out “Who am I”.

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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

    Success due to God or myself

    When there is a close harmony between the knowing intelligence and the willful mind, equally between the external body and senses, good and effective actions proceed and they bring about the desired outcome. Otherwise not. Whether you believe in God or not, does not matter. What is required is a conscientious striving.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Bhagavad Gita to overcome overwhelming emotions

    Nourishment for intelligence is Knowledge, for mind is emotions. So, you must develop good emotions – love, sympathy, sacrifice – for the mind, and elevate your intelligence with greater and greater Knowledge.

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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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    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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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    How to Inculcate Values in Children?

    While feeding the child, have the thought that the feed should instill in him good and sustainable health and inner stimulations. Whichever sense-organ of the child responds, through that provide the most sublime and elevating sensation.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Why Ochre robes?

    This colour also represents earth. Earlier, Sannyasins used to dye their cloth with a special ochre coloured earth called ‘Geri-mitti’.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Theory of rebirth?

    Birth and rebirth are tentative propositions, one visible and the other invisible, to help man think about continuity of existence. When his sense of enquiry grows and deepens, this continuity will be probed, dissected as it were, to take him to the nonobject, the Subject entity,

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Watching your thoughts

    "Watching the thoughts" means witnessing them come and go without getting involved in them. Normally we are always getting involved in the current thought. When depressing or happy thoughts arise, we "become depressed or happy". Witnessing means we have to see the happy thoughts, depressing thoughts, without becoming happy or depressed.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Qualities in Bhagavad Gita

    All these qualities basically represent a Knower, call him/her sthita-dhee or bhakta or Jnānee or Gunāteeta.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    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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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Influence of Gunas–Are we helpless?

    Everything is the effect of guṇas. Work, cessation, dream, sleep, wakefulness — all. But within these, the guṇas alone make you think, enquire, seek etc. See all as guṇas and flow with them. Do when you feel like doing. Stop and leave when you feel so. Be natural.

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    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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