Bodhamayananda

Bodhamayananda is an adherent of Swami Vivekananda's teachings. He encourages students to develop self-confidence and build a strong character by reading the books of Swami Vivekananda.{{cite news|title=Suicides among youth due to lack of self-confidence|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/suicides-among-youth-due-to-lack-of-selfconfidence/article4117758.ece|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=21 November 2012 |newspaper=The Hindu}}{{cite news|title=Youth leadership award for Meenakshi college student|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/youth-leadership-award-for-meenakshi-college-student/article1973531.ece|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=24 December 2007|newspaper=The Hindu}} He has organized youth conventions and meditation classes also.{{cite news|title=Grooming leaders for tomorrow|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/article1365577.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221144329/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/article1365577.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 December 2014|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=4 December 2012 |location=Hyderabad |newspaper=The New Indian Express}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New Indian Express |first1=Swahilya |last1=Shambhavi

|date=27 September 2009 |title=Connect to divinity with Nada Yoga|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/article157294.ece?service=print|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307034442/http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/article157294.ece?service=print|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 March 2016|accessdate=25 September 2014}}{{cite news|title=Tap your potential for a better world|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Tap-your-potential-for-a-better-world-Swami/articleshow/4942192.cms|newspaper=Times of India|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=27 August 2009}}

Bodhamayananda has given motivational and stress management lectures at different institutions.{{cite journal|title=The NGSMIPS Herald|volume=4|issue=1|page=3}} In his motivational speeches he speaks of three "H's": "Head to Think, Heart to Feel, and Hands to Work for the development of the society." According to him, human and spiritual values need to be given more importance in the education system.{{cite news|title=Need for policies to promote innovation|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/need-for-policies-to-promote-innovation/article4327344.ece|accessdate=25 September 2014|newspaper=The Hindu |date=21 January 2013}}

Swami Bodhamayananda moderated the one-day workshop on Corporate Excellence through Spiritual Culture organized in Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai in March 2009.{{cite journal|title=Corporate Workshop at T Nagar Ashrama|journal=The Vedanta Kesari|volume=96|issue=5|page=40}}

In National Aerospace Laboratories's Vigilance Awareness Week of 2009 Bodhamayananda gave a lecture on Spirituality in Management where he said management is needed in every sphere of life. According to him, spirituality is finding popularity with management courses because it helps employees in their search for a purpose in their personal and professional life and also because it is a novel way to motivate them into finding creative approach to problem-solving.{{cite web|title=Golden Jubilee|url=http://www.nal.res.in/pdf/memoirs/lab%20events.pdf|accessdate=25 September 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103041202/http://www.nal.res.in/pdf/memoirs/lab%20events.pdf|archivedate=3 November 2014}}

He also delivered a lecture on 28 January 2013 in Nitte University on "Stress management".{{cite journal|title=Guest Lectures|journal=NITTE News|date=Jan–Apr 2013|volume=10|issue=1|page=49}} He was a keynote speaker at a symposium on "Role of Professional Students in making India the Global Work Force" in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.{{cite web|title=Role of Professional Students in making India the Global Work Force |url=http://jntuh.ac.in/bulletin_board/A_one_Day_Symposium_1331798595.pdf |publisher=Jawaharal Nehru Technology University |location=Hyderabad |accessdate=25 September 2014}}

Bodhamayananda says

{{quote|"The youth are attracted [to vedanta] because vedanta is a philosophy of strength and fearlessness and not a dogma rousing fear for god in the human mind."{{cite news|title=Look who's talking Vedanta!|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/look-whos-talking-vedanta/article2243404.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |accessdate=25 September 2014|date=9 April 2007}}}}

According to him, Bhagavad Gita is "a book of practical vedanta."{{cite news|title=Sing aloud the song celestial!|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sing-aloud-the-song-celestial/215974-60.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108162318/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sing-aloud-the-song-celestial/215974-60.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 November 2014|accessdate=25 September 2014 |publisher=IBN Live |date=2 Jan 2012}}

• {{cite book|author=Swami Bodhamayananda|title=Mind and Modern Problems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8GyoAEACAAJ|date=18 July 2014 |type=Softcover

|publisher=Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math}}

• Swami Vivekananda
• Bibliography of Swami Vivekananda

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