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Key Teachings of Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Swamiji's special effort has been to make seekers understand that the real focus: (i) of devotional practices is not God, but the devotee's own mind and behaviour; (ii) of karma yoga is not action, but the attitude of the mind with which an action is performed; (iii) of knowledge is not knowledge, but the purification and expansion of the seeker’s mind. Swamiji upholds that all problems in human life are born of the mind, and so the solutions thereof are also to be found within the mind. Thus, one must make the outgoing mind look inward. This is effected through two means: (a) The well known and time honoured method of meditative introspection. Here the seeker becomes aware of the profound dimensions and potentials held within the mind and intelligence. The seeker discovers the real nature of the mind as well as the world, and realises that for all joy and fulfillment, one needs to look at his mind and inner resources alone, and not outside. (b) Swamiji’s unique method of interactional saadhana which is a technique of shifting our focus from the external situation to the mind’s response to it, and treating the mind through knowledge so that any interaction will lead to inner enrichment. While meditative introspection is a time-bound pursuit, interactional saadhana aims to transform every moment of our wakeful life into a spiritual pursuit of inner purification and enrichment. |
