Pearls of Wise

================================================================ Sunday, 26 Nov 2023 05:30. ================================================================ Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha answers questions on parenting and dutyI love my children, but there are times when I really feel that parenting is a huge burden.Finding a balance between home and work can be so exasperating How do I overcome this?While to some extent, desire and its consequent burden are part of household life, the fact remains that this plight robs away the very purpose and fruition of the householder. The question is: Do you like such a plight? If you do not, the straight answer is:.be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony with yourself.Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction prevents the mind to express itself fully, healthily, and harmoniously Understand this mental truth and always think of avoiding desires and the consequent torments In reality,...

=============================================================== Manana – Reflection Advaita Bodha Deepika Chapter V Advaita Bodha Deepika (Lamp of non-dual knowledge) On of the few books highly spoken of by Bhagavan Sri Ramanamaharshi. ================================================================ 1. D.: Master, on hearing it from you, the nature of the Self is now clear to me, but the knowledge remains only indirect. Kindly instruct me in reflection, by practising which the darkness of Ignorance now hiding the Self may vanish and direct experience result. 2. M.: Always to direct the thought with subtle reasoning upon the non-dual Self that is now known indirectly, is called reflection. 3-4. D.: Please tell me its ’cause’, ‘nature’, ‘effect’, ‘limit’ and ‘fruit’. M.: Discernment of the real from the unreal is its ’cause’; enquiry into the Truth of the non-dual Self is its ‘nature’; to tear off that veiling aspect of Ignorance which makes one say “It does not shine forth” is its ‘effe...