Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang "The Universe in a hair" from the Yoga Vasishtha | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 253 Recorded on 22 November 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:38 "Universe in a hair" - Universe is how you perceive it. 3:51 Is there a separation in consciousness to make an individual consciousness? 8:06 So is the world a projection of ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Knowledge of the Self | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 252 Recorded on 10 August 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:55 Chapter 15, verse one, "A student whose mind is pure and calm learns easily.." 2:09 Chapter 15, verse one - Babaji's comments 3:44 What is a corrupted mind and what causes the mind to be corrupted? 5:22 How can ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The Real Meaning of Faith and Devotion | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 251 Recorded on 8 November 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:07 What is faith and why is it so important? 5:28 Faith does not depend on any result. 8:45 Without a guru would it be very difficult to overcome the ego? 11:45 How does one get attracted ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Creation | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 250 Recorded on 25 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:14 When a thought pops up in the mind, what is it that has created that thought? 1:42 Has the mind created that thought within itself? 4:02 Everything we perceive of as the world, that is entirely within our own mind. D...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Quietude - Ashtavakra Samhita Ch.10 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 249 Recorded on 4 May 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:24 What is the nature of quietude? 4:35 With meditation, by just watching, it brings the mind to silence and everything disappears, and only the Self that you are remains? 9:03 Does a Yogi have a t...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Myths, Miracles and Meditation | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 248 Recorded on 18 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:20 There are so many myths about the powers that one can get through meditation. What powers can one get through meditation? 7:02 How can one be more successful in life when one meditates? 10...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Religion and Spirituality | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 247 Recorded on 11 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:14 Do religions and spirituality lead to the same goals? 9:51 How do we choose which path to adopt? 11:30 Some religions say after death there is rebirth, others say there isn't - which is correct? 21:1...
Send us a text Tranquility - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.14 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 246 Recorded on 27 July 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:48 Chapter 14, verse 1 1:22 "The mind being fully settled in the Self" - what do you mean by the mind? 4:22 For a Self Realized person, do thoughts arise in the mind? 6:21 So thoughts arise as needed and then spontaneously settle down? 6:50 It seems that the nature of the mind is to have thoughts, but you've also said the nature of th...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Personal Effort, Grace and Satsanga | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 245 Recorded on 23 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:15 Babaji's comment on the quote from Yoga Vasistha: "In the whole of creation, there is no force more powerful than personal effort in the present." 8:36 If that peace is the mind's natural st...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The Behaviour of the Seeker: Yoga Vasistha | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 244 Recorded on 19 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:06 The end of pleasure is liberation. 10:17 Why are we all after the desires if it is the cause of unhappiness? 16:17 Countless universes have been created in our own mind - how can we realise the tr...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The Practice of Non-Violence | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 243 Recorded on 13 September 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 What is the true meaning of non-violence 9:38 When Babaji says ‘you have aright to defend yourself’ - is that the self respect? That Babaji talks about? 11:25 Is it the human being that has the ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Detachment - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 242 Recorded on 13 April 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.1-4 1:36 'To whom do the conflicts belong?' 5:39 Is detachment something that you can practice? 8:17 Difference between detachment, indifference and apathy and how a Yo...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Silencing the Mind | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 241 Recorded on 9 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 The mind is continually jumping from one thought to another - how has it become like this? 5:25 "The desire for experience arises as a thought in consciousness and by the repetition of this thought it gains strengt...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang "The Higher Knowledge" Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 6 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 240 Recorded on 23 February 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:08 Chapter 6 "The Higher Knowledge", verses 1-4 "I am all beings, and all beings are in Me." 7:50 That "I" is not the body or the ideas in the mind. What is the distinction betwe...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Science and Spirituality | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 239 Recorded on 26 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:09 Is science and spirituality compatible with each other or conflicting with each other? 1:04 Science is based on evidence - is there evidence of God or Divinity? 9:27 Is God or Divinity logical? 11:09 Sci...
Send us a text Ashtavakra Gita, Ch.12/13 "Abiding in the Self"/ "Happiness" | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 238 Recorded on 13 July 25 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 Ch.12 Verse 5, rejecting objects which are created by the mind. 1:57 Is it a practice to ignore the mental chatter? 3:30 Ch.12, Verse 6 - abstaining from action, and acting to achieve a desired result - both are born out of ignorance. 3:52 Ch.12, Verse 7 - renouncing all thought for awareness of the Self 4:49 By ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Guru - Disciple | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.237 Recorded on 5 July 2025 with worldwide participants 00:00 What is the basic theme of the Guru Gita on which Babaji has written a commentary? 04:42 The guru - disciple relationship seems very unique to the spiritual tradition in India. 15:17 The word 'disciple' comes from 'disc...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Transformation on the path of spiritual life | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.236 Recorded on 2 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 What is the transformation that happened to Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj from when He sat for Tapas as a 14 year old boy? 12:20 What transformation should we see in ourselves as we...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11 - "Wisdom" | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.235 Recorded on 8 June 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:24 What is wisdom and how can we acquire it? 1:55 How would wisdom be different from knowledge? 2:53 Is wisdom all about finding peace and contentment? 4:30 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 1 - ...
Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Acceptance and Patience | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.234 Recorded on 12 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:07 People today have an expectation of instant results, what is the importance of patience? 6:14 Do we first need to realise that peace in the mind is what we need? 7:48 If the peace is not coming, is it...