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Little Krishna by Swamini Ma Gurupriya

Click here to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web27SytH9M

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Poojya Swami Bhoomananda Tirthaji's 93rd Jayanti was also celebrated at other centres of the ashram with joy and devotion. Devotees at all the centres assembled at the centres to perform Guru archana. At Dakshinkhanda, devotees went around the village at 6 am, doing naamasankeertana, a very popular practice called "Prabhat Pheri".

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Be Master of Yourself (Oct 28 – Nov 1, 2025)

Nutan Swamiji conducted this youth programme for 95 nursing students and teachers of VMRT Capt Saurabh Kalia Memorial Nursing College, Palampur. Sessions were conducted for 1.5 hours over 5 days at the auditorium of Vishranti (Palampur) – a senior citizens’ home within the same VMRT campus.

The first day began with Nutan Swamiji teaching participants “aakasha vallepa viduragoham....”. The shloka became the anthem of the programme and each day would commence and conclude with beautiful collective chanting by Nutan Swamiji and all the participants. Within two days most of the students knew the verse and the tune by heart.

Nutan Swamiji's interactive sessions enlightened the students about the power of their own mind, and how to tap this power through the help of intelligence and right understanding.

Day 1

Understanding what makes the mind weak, and how to make the mind strong and efficient.

Day 2

Looking within. Examining one’s own mind's responses to various challenging situations and responding without losing self-seatedness; also, making the right choice with clarity and confidence.

Day 3

Paropakara (serving others). Nutan Swamiji taught the two Paropakara shlokas to emphasize that our lives are only meaningful when we think of and serve others.

During a short group activity, 9 groups of participants were asked to discuss what types of Paropakara they can take up, and identify one they would like to start doing right away. Each group representative then presented how they can start spending more time listening to people, particularly old-agers, patients and their relatives in hospital, or anyone going through difficulty. Some expressed that they would like to provide food and water for the dogs, cows and birds - in addition to love and care.

Day 4

Awareness about the right food and exercise for each component of our personality – physical body, mind, emotion and intelligence. Swamiji showed them how all

this is linked to discipline, which is indispensable in achieving success and freedom in any field of activity.

Day 5 - Concluding Day

Integrated personality. Nutan Swamiji went deeper into understanding discipline and harmonising all the aspects of our personality using the chariot illustration diagram based on Kathopanishad.

Guided meditation. Peaceful meditation exercise led by Nutan Swamiji, who began by explaining the importance of being complete relaxed and simply letting go of all efforts to meditate.

Group Presentation. Groups of participants had each been asked to do a brief presentation/enactment showing what they had learnt over the course of the programme. It was an extremely enjoyable and enlightening session as some of the groups performed skits, chanted shlokas, recited poetry and sang songs.

The fulfilling event concluded with an inspiring message from the college principal Mrs. Ria. Nutan Swamiji then distributed prasada (both literature prasada and namkeen & sweet box). All then went for a group photograph at the Vishranti lawn.

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Deepavali 2025 (20 October 2025)

Glimpses of Deepavali observances at Narayanashrama Tapovanam and other centres. Poojya Swamiji along with Ma are at Jamshedpur during this time, conducting the 59th Annual Jnana Yajna.

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The root causes of all unhappiness are desires and expectations. The desire to get what one likes and not wanting to face what one dislikes. Because of desires, the mind ever remains selfish and narrow, dwelling unendingly on meaningless and unnecessary thoughts and imaginations.

Only when one develops one-pointed devotion to the Supreme Lord, and keeps Him in his heart, does the mind transcend all pettiness and agitations. As love for the supreme Lord grows, dispassion towards worldly affairs also increases. When a devotee develops deep devotion to the Lord, spontaneously his mind too gets a touch of Infinitude and purity. Consequently one transcends happiness and misery.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Click here to watch a short video 'Sadhana for attaining purity of mind': https://www.bhoomananda.org/videos/181-by-swamini-ma-gurupriya-sadhana-for-attaining-purity-of-mind/

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The Soul experience is so affirmative and blissful, that it makes seeking delight from outer sources superfluous. When the need for an imperishable anchor as well as inexhaustible bliss is found in the Self, then life becomes easy, natural, harmonious and fulfilling. With the mind getting enriched by every event and outcome of the day, interactional proficiency and stability keep growing. When the Self, one’s true identity, is permeating everywhere, where is the question of the mind feeling possessive about anything at all?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Click here to listen to the audio 'Self-Realization and the Process to achieve it': https://www.bhoomananda.org/audios/pr-04-nov-2011-self-realization-and-the-process-to-achieve-it/

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Seekers invariably get distracted by sensory interactions. In reality is there any object, objectivity or objectude at all? All activity is sourced by and in the Consciousness dwelling within. Object is a mere notion, interaction also. Are not seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching inner processes, outcomes, all inhering in inner Consciousness alone? Consciousness is no object. How can objects, solid, concrete, be there at all? Update your knowledge. Let there be no distraction at all. You are the Subject, the witness, Consciousness.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Click here to listen to the audio 'The world is only an experience of the consciousness within': https://www.bhoomananda.org/audios/the-world-is-only-an-experience-of-the-consciousness-within/

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You are born with a body. But you are not the body. What dwells in the body is not matter or energy. It is sentience, absolutely different from the body. Yet, feeling that you are the body, you suffer endlessly. Is it not ridiculous? You are sentience, Consciousness, animating the inert body. How frivolous it is to say ‘I am the body’! Is it that unless repeatedly warned and exhorted, none is going to redress the plight at all? And delusion and suffering will definitely linger. Is it not despicable?

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Click here to read the article by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha 'The Lord’s Dwelling': https://www.bhoomananda.org/writings/the-lords-dwelling/