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Little Krishna by Swamini Ma Gurupriya

Why do the wise never grieve? Arjuna grieves over Bhishma, Drona, and his kinsmen. But Krishna turns the focus inward, urging him to examine the very nature of his sorrow. The dead have always outnumbered the living. Life and death go together. If none were to die, where would even ants find space to move on this earth? What is needed is right understanding. “The enlightened grieve neither for the living nor the dead.” This verse marks the true beginning of Krishna’s teaching - where grief becomes the doorway to Self-knowledge. Drawn from the exposition of a knower of Truth and spiritual exponent, Poojya Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, from Essential Slokas for Memorisation, Bhagavad Gita Read the full verse and meaning: https://www.bhoomananda.org/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2-sankhya-yoga/verse-11/

The highest gain for the human lies within himself; but rarely one is interested in discovering it. This is the grand witchcraft ignorance plays upon one and all. The seeker has to be aware of it. Understand that the entire worldly display is an outcome of ignorance. Once you look within and begin to understand the One Reality behind everything, the mind will be empowered to dispel the effects of ignorance.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Do not insist on your family members to do as you wish. Your rigidity will be harmful to them. With age and maturity, the children should be allowed to act as they think best. If they make mistakes, they should be allowed to try again, and learn from their mistakes. Take all precautions, but do not stifle them with your decisions.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Mind is not gross at all. The subtle mind constantly takes imprints of the world objects, employing the senses for the purpose. As is the mind subtle, so too are the imprints on it. Any reference to the outer objects is, in reality, to their subtle imprints in the mind. Like every thought, feeling and emotion, every object-imprint in the mind also rises and sets in the mind itself. How can we then adduce unbroken existence for any external object or its experience?

Thus, it has to be clearly borne in mind that in our experience of the world, our own inner mind and its imprints act as the sole basis. Therefore, we have no ground to say that the objects exist in their own right, with grossness and distinctions, as they seem to suggest. All are, in truth, the mind alone and the imprints it causes. This is the fact, judged by our own intelligence and reason.

This statement, in fact a summary conclusion on the basis of rational study, should always remain in the mind of the seeker. At no time, should he allow it to dim or dwindle. In that lies the success and the wholesomeness of his seeking.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

The inner spiritual conquest, compared to that of the kings’ and emperors’, is without bloodshed. It is a victory by the mind over the mind’s own enemies.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Nonhuman beings do not claim or disclaim anything they do, and they do not also have any notion of bondage and liberation. The mind and intelligence of the human play havoc in him. These have to be set right. It is the possessiveness and ego that cause all disorder, torment and bondage.

Mind is like a tempest of desires. When all desires become extinct, like the flame in a lamp that has run out of oil, one wins over the world. The world will no more be a source of agitation and torment.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha