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Mantra-like words from Swami Bodhananda that offer a space for clear thinking, followed by meditative silence.

Read, repeat, meditate — and be that silence.

What is achievement?

There is no accumulated achievement.

Every day we have to achieve something.

Two spheres of human pursuit

There are two spheres of human pursuit: the subjective and the objective. The subjective is the field of spirit, compassion and wisdom; whereas the objective is the field of matter, knowledge and power.

Existence is a harmony of both these spheres. Life unfolds through the interaction of the subjective and the objective, and God is experienced in the unhindered unfoldment of life.

Wisdom from the past as a guideline for the future

Preparing yourself alone is a very short-sighted approach. Prepare your workers to operate in the competitive global market. Hone their hard and soft skills and use the wisdom from the past as a guideline for the future.

Indian managers have the onus for taking the country forward economically… enlarge your thinking and your vision will enlarge automatically.

Goal realisation

All aspects of human problems are inter-connected. Simply put, the scriptures tell you to set a goal, work toward achieving it; when you achieve it, find out if that is what will help you grow.

When applied to the corporate field, the same philosophies aid in policy forming, decision making and a host of other challenging management tasks. Through goal realisation, all problems can be solved, not just economic ones.

Samadhi

The ability to awaken your spirit in your work is Samadhi.

The ideal of life is to gain perfection in the spirit.

Love is a non-demanding relationship

Love is a non-demanding relationship. A sharing mode of happy give and take.

Love is a movement from a body-focused consciousness to an all-embracing consciousness.

Ego-centred desire

Ego-centred desires are the inhibiting factors in spiritual unfoldment.

Love is silence

Love is silence, allowing others to be themselves, to create themselves anew.

Love is experienced as a space for beings to flower and fade.

Dignity of the individual

To restore the dignity and ultimacy of the individual is considered the state-of-the-art ideal.

Saintliness

Saintliness cannot be acquired.

It has to be discovered as one's own essential nature.

Wisdom

Wisdom means drawing the line, and this only the individual can do — to draw the line between freedom and discipline, and attain optimal self-unfoldment.

The cultural status of a society is inversely related to outside discipline and directly proportional to individual self-discipline.

Human potential

Human potential unfolds in the dynamics of conflict and cooperation, of war and peace, of violence and non-violence, of construction and destruction.

Non-quantifiable value

Acutely aware of the wholeness of existence, the spiritualist introduces non-quantifiable values like peace, love, sharing and sacrifice in his or her discourse on society and nature.

Recited at every Sambodh centre

The Sambodh Prayer

O God, give me the strength and wisdom
to appreciate and understand Vedanta.

Let me not despise my
Teacher or neighbours.

Let my family, and friends,
and people be happy.

O God, give me the metaphysical insight
and existential wisdom.

Take away jealousy, hatred, vanity, and
passions of the flesh from me.

Make me a fit instrument of Thy love,
Thy will, and Thy works.

Bless me to see Thee everywhere,
and serve Thee in everybody.

Hari Aum Tat Sat

— written by Swami Bodhananda · The prayer on its own page →

Mantra for Meditation

These sayings come from the booklet Mantra for Meditation (Sambodh Foundation, New Delhi, 2011). A different one appears at the foot of each page of this site, changing every day.

Thought for today

Seeing things as they are is freedom.

— Swami Bodhananda  ·  More reflections