Thus Spake Babaji

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang The Secrets of the Mind | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.174Recorded on 25 April 2024 with Malaysian participants.0:00 Intro0:11 Does having a desire mean we are not peaceful?4:03 What is the first step to renounce expectations?5:54 Are the relationships and materialistic pressures part of a test from god?16:15 Babaji was drawn to the spiritual path from childhood, is this because in previous lives Babaji had grown tired of living in the world?19:29 If we feel sad for people who are suffering in this world, how should we help?24:37 "Knowledge and wisdom are poles apart"29:58 How do we transcend space to become one with the space?31:37 Turya and turiyatita33:29 What happens to the brainwaves of someone in samadhi?35:25 How to strengthen oneself to overcome negative feelings for someone38:17 Closing words from Babaji___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The Way to Permanent Happiness | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.173Recorded on 24 June 2023 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:07 Why do we yearn for happiness?1:40 When Babaji as a young boy wondered why happiness is not there at all times6:03 Why is there no opposite to the highest happiness from the Self?10:40 Can any imagination give us a permanent happiness?14:42 The importance to 'adjust and manage'18:20 How do we cultivate a strong desire for a permanent and real happiness?23:55 So anything that is changing cannot give a permanent happiness?26:25 Thinking in a noble way28:10 How to make sure we don't jump from a desire into a craving or a greed32:15 How to avoid getting affected by people with negative energy34:25 Is the 'book of life' written at the time of birth?36:58 If we are content with everything in life, does that prevent is from seeking anything higher?41:01 When there are physical disturbances like an itch or a scratch during meditation ___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Sadhana and Tapas | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.172Recorded on 21 October 2023 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:07 What is the meaning of Tapas?1:17 Is it necessary for Tapas to be sitting in meditation or can it happen while active in the world?6:15 Does devotion have to be complete to be converted into Tapas?11:40 Is total commitment and a 'do or die' attitude necessary for Tapas?17:07 What was the significance of the tests that came in Tapas?20:37 What causes one to fail to complete Tapas?21:41 Is Self Realisation a permanent state?24:17 Did an enormous determination come to achieve this?26:10 Is it destiny for everyone to undertake Tapas at some point and become Self Realised?28:18 Is Self Realisation and liberation one and the same thing?29:03 If jeevanmukti is Self Realisation then what is videhamukti?30:55 Is it the same effort for Babaji to bring the mind to the world, as it is for us to make the mind introverted to the Self?31:54 In stories people have gotten liberated from listening to a Yogi, how is this possible without Tapas?24:24 Why is the path of Tapas difficult?38:15 Why did the lady who tried to help Swamiji get murdered?39:15 How we should practice silence.41:37 When will I devote all my time towards Realisation?42:52 The effects of chanting as a sadhana44:49 Did Babaji meditate for 2 to 3 days at a stretch before that time in Mysore after Swamiji's Mahasamadhi?46:27 Is always Guru Maharaj who guides to go into Tapas?47:52 Which is more important, physical exercise or meditation?48:53 When the body's health is not so good, is there an alternative sadhana to meditation?50:59 How do we know when we are ready for Tapas?___Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Atma Sakshatkar | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.171Recorded on 4 April 2024 with Malaysian participants.0:00 Introduction0:13 What is the innocence that is necessary and how is it connected to faith?2:24 When we have faith in the Guru, are we supposed to not question?3:30 Does the Guru's name serve as a point of focus?  How does one, without a Guru, get their anchor of support?5:42 If we believe pain and pleasure is not real, should we tolerate people who do wrong things?10:30 Through practice of meditation do we avoid getting attached to the outcome?11:18 What are the teachings of duality and non-duality?17:47 Does merging in the ocean eliminate all imagination including that of our Guru or our Ishtar Deva?21:47 What is prana?28:09 Is the inner voice the sixth sense?29:29 An uncontrollable feeling and crying when first meeting Babaji - is this good?31:03 Babaji's closing comments___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Atma Sakshatkar | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.170Recorded on 6 April 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:25 Why have we been born as a human being and what should we strive for?4:35 What is Atma Sakshatkar?9:41 Why is Atma Sakshatkar the highest that a human can achieve?14:18 What is the peace that Babaji talks of and what effect does peace have on a human being?18:48 What is Tapas and what effect does Tapas have on the practitioner?27:08 How can people of this world understand the need to achieve this goal?34:20 The importance of not analysing in meditation40:23 Why does it seem difficult and almost impossible to achieve what we have been born for?44:21 What happened at the moment of Atma Sakshatkar?47:25 Is Bhakti, Karma and Dhyana yoga all interlinked?51:46 How does Babaji keep from getting mentally attached to good or bad people?52:58 What are the possible distractions that sadhaks should be aware of?56:10 Does one prepare for Tapas, is Tapas different for each person?59:08 Is there life after death?1:02:58 What is Shravanam, Mananam, Nidityasanam?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Consciousness, the mind and meditation | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.169Recorded on 14 January 2024 with US participants.0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:29 Mind has to become quiet to know the Self10:05 How can we strengthen our faith so we can realise the need for meditation and make more effort?14:49 When the watcher no longer sees an object, what happens to the watcher?15:55 Difference between consciousness and awareness17:47 How can consciousness of eternal existence be aware of itself before Mahasamadhi?19:03 'The present has no story'21:09 Why is no target given in the instruction of Jangama Dhyana?22:27 Why does matter appears within space?24:10 Babaji's meaning of pure consciousness25:32 Are we returning to consciousness from which we came or is that just what we are?27:39 Is the experience of neutrality towards externals closer to wisdom than positivity?28:33 Does spirituality play an evolutionary role?29:28 is it ok to imagine a mental axe chopping the thoughts down in meditation?31:46 How to deal with auditory distractions32:45 Where does supreme consciousness stop and start in terms of Mother Nature?36:17 Does being in nature help the process of Self Realisation?37:19 The most amazing thing as described by Yudhishthira38:58 A devotee's comment on Babaji's teachings40:48 Do stronger thoughts come as we progress in meditation?42:11 Is there a conscious mind and a subconscious mind?44:15 Does the act of not following a habitual thought, take away the power of it?45:49 So are samskaras not real?46:38 Is every thought a vibration that is making our reality?48:03 Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu translation___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Prarabdha - Destiny | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.168Recorded on 2 March 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:05 What is prarabdha?2:32 What determines the way in which we return to the real Self?5:22 Why is destiny taught?7:43 Should we be trying to make the mind quiet?8:52 Does prarabdha exist for a Yogi?9:42 Is Babaji's prarabdha to teach others about the Truth?12:11 Is it useful to think that 'it was destined to happen'?15:19 Is that connected to faith in Divine and Guru?16:51 Is an unconditional love to the Master needed?18:28 Can the Guru or others connected to us change our prarabdha?21:32 So do we have to overcome all likes and dislikes to remove our prarabdha?23:12 Is it is not god's fault that these problems exist?23:31 What is the importance of satsanga?26:31 Is sadhana to purify the mind a necessity?28:12 What should be our spiritual goal?28:53 If there is enough determination and understanding of the teachings, can Self Realization come, or is time needed?30:16 What is the value of karma in terms of destiny?30:52 How to get over suffering due to persons in need, close to us?32:50 Is it really the same entity that is undergoing the chain of cycles of rebirth?35:46 Does a soul have its own energy independent of the Supreme?36:59 Is the relationship between supreme soul and individual soul like that of father and child?38:43 How to stop negative destiny and promote good destiny in children?39:47 Can we consider prarabdha as a Divine plan?40:26 Can we ask the primordial energy for spiritual upliftment?42:14 How to prevent being affected by the negative energy of previous bad actions?43:45 When a guru becomes Self-Realized, has he helped his ancestors?44:38 What is the difference between believing something with conviction and realising something?46:43 Suffering from a realization of the impermanence of everything, that there is not enough time to achieve realisation.___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang The Teachings of the Yoga Vasistha | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.167Recorded on 24 February 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:35 What is the Yoga Vasistha?7:17 "The thing that exists in itself" - what is the meaning of the Self in this phrase from Yoga Vasistha?17:15 Why in Yoga Vasistha it says that if you consider your body as yourself you are foolish24:12 How is time and space an imagination?30:00 How mind and matter will all return to the origin37:10 What is the state of a Yogi?42:05 Does a Yogi perceive others as separate entities?44:45 In sakshi bhava is there anything to perceive?46:33 The meditation technique that Babaji teaches and that is taught in the Yoga Vasistha53:17 Is Babaji watching the Divinity?55:14 What is the difference between the mind and the Self?55:50 Feeling of consciousness coming from somewhere into the body in meditation58:29 What is the difference between shushupti and turiya?59:33 How the Atman, due to relationship with matter, acquires characteristics of matter01:00:52 How to go beyond the feeling of being stuck within the body01:02:55 "If you can see with the vision that lies between the looker and the object looked upon"___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Religion and Spirituality Pt 2 | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.166Recorded on 2 February 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:17 What does Babaji mean by 'the secrets of your own existence'?5:03 What is the best attitude to take when dealing with all the religions and teachings around us?15:43 What is the significance of workshiping a stone idol and how to respond to criticism of the practice?27:00 Are we living in a make-believe world if we do not know our Real Self?37:11 In regards to divine guidance, at what point do we realise that the decision we take is guided by god?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The Mind and its Imaginations | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.165Recorded on 6 January 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:06 What does Babaji mean when He uses the word faith?4:33 How is it we can develop a faith in god since we can't see god?15:45 How is self-confidence different from pride or arrogance?27:04 Does faith come through grace?33:51 Is faith all we need? 36:56 Are there exercises we can practice to increase faith?39:42 Is it important to have an initiation from Babaji before participating in the zoom classes?41:31 Why is samsara mostly recognised as an ocean and how does faith help us cross it?42:59 How to overcome hunger during morning meditation43:39 What is sacrifice and how is it significant?45:08 Does faith and self-confidence come from a string of successes?46:17 Is there a difference between world and spiritual goals?46:47 Difference between concentrating with eyeballs open and closed in meditation48:55 When eyeballs are steady, is that the same thing as watching in meditation?49:15 What is the difference between faith and trust?---Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang The Mind and its Imaginations | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.164Recorded on 28 January 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:08 "It's not the mind that knows but because of the mind that we know"1:19 The mind getting involved in the imaginations, away from the pure consciousness5:58 Distinction between pure consciousness and the sense of "I"11:09 Is consciousness in every atom of creation?12:22 Creation and the dilution of the consciousness away from the Self17:19 Has consciousness gotten involved into imaginations through ignorance?17:57 The same mind in illusion has to be used to find the way back home too?20:48 What is god?23:18 Is it possible to pray to the Divine and be blessed by the Divine?24:44 Having faith in Babaji to take us to Self Realization27:05 Does illusion just belong to me or is the universe one shared illusion experienced differently by each of us?31:50 How to get to the stage of thinking "a problem is no problem"33:41 When we still the mind do we tap into the potentiality of creation?35:25 When we engage the mind in creativity37:32 Is there a difference between samadhi and mahasamadhi?40:03 Does meditation require effort or is it effortless?41:43 What is the trigger that makes the last thought the last thought?44:10 Experiencing happiness and unhappiness in meditation47:55 Peace, beyond bliss___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Peace: The Recommended Goal | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.163Recorded on 09 December 2023 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:40 What is peace and why is it the recommended goal?3:58 Can there still be peace when the mind is active?5:05 Are happiness and peace related?7:20 How the truth of existence cannot be found through thinking 10:46 How when you stop the mind you find out who you really are14:47 Is the 'matter in the mind' the imagination habits which have to dissolve?19:50 First the mind has to be stronger than the thoughts in the mind, then does the mind have to be stronger than the world?21:17 How is the peace in the mind maintained when a Yogi moves in the world?28:06 Is Babaji aware that this world is not a reality?30:13 Is pain and suffering two different things?31:12 How to achieve peace when working in the world, should we remind ourselves that we need peace or is practice of meditation the only way.33:37 Should we accept the desires we have since they are habits out of our control?34:50 How to encourage newcomers to stick to the meditation practice even though they have yet to experience peace in the mind.___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang The True Meaning of Yoga Part 2 | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.162Recorded on 18 January 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction0:14 Can Babaji please explain what is meant by, "Man exists as the immortal soul which is beyond the birth and death of the physical body."?4:31 How does Parabrahma relate to the concepts of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and to us?8:31 What does it mean for the droplet of the mind becomes one with the ocean of the Self?13:37 Is it correct to say that our imagination is the culprit that holds us back from discovering our True Self?20:07 How do we become strong enough to become the master and not the servant to our brain's refections?28:35 Experiences of body jerks during meditation29:58 After death does our consciousness remain awake in the same way that it does in the real world?33:28 How do we know if a judgment we make is from the brain's reflection or from us using or commanding the brain?34:56 Once mind and body gets separated, how is that soul recognised?37:13 Can the jeevatma comprehend the absolute?38:24 Do evil spirits exist or is it an imagination from the mind?40:51 What are the signs that our worldly desires are gradually ending?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Beyond Birth and Death | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.161Recorded on 27 January 2024 with worldwide participants.0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:58 Can Babaji explain how we are beyond the birth and death of this body?6:00 Is it because of the imaginations and tendencies that we have acquired that this birth and death appears to us?10:48 If in this lifetime we cannot achieve Self-Realization, what happens?15:46 What is Mahasamadhi?20:01 Is it not enough just to be tired of this world and desire not to be reborn?22:35 Is it because we are born to our parents that we don't question why it has happened?32:10 Will all individual souls all eventually go back to itself?33:22 When someone close to you dies, in most religions we pray for them, is that beneficial?34:43 Are chakras and kundalini myths because it is simply a part of our imagination?37:02 The sensation of descending back into the body after experiencing silence in meditation38:29 Can we benefit from being in samadhi for 1 hour a day?40:13 During meditation how can we stop the mind conversing with itself.41:43 Can we tell the mind to just 'shut up and focus'?42:30 How did Swamiji come to know of stories from the scriptures?44:05 Are animals also individual souls?45:07 What is experienced in the last breath of life?46:19 Are our good habits as involving in the world as our bad habits?47:51 When we pray to Swamiji are we praying to the Divinity?49:12 What is the inherent meaning of the dance of Shiva with the dead body of Uma on his shoulder?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang In this Q&A, Babaji answers questions about the Ashtavakra Samhita, one of the great spiritual texts of India.  A new book, Babaji's commentary on the Ashtavakra Samhita, is available now to purchase here: https://shivarudrabalayogi.org/books-music-bhajans-and-chants/book/new-book-babajis-commentary-on-the-ashtavakra-samhita/Ashtavakra Samhita | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.160Recorded on 25th November 2023 with worldwide participants0:00 Introduction from Babaji01:20 How did King Janaka come to be Ashtavakra's disciple?11:48 When we talk of liberation, what is it liberation from?15:29 How does giving up objects help to attain liberation?19:37 Does the interest in objects automatically fall away when we do sadhana?21:13 To ask for liberation King Janaka must have known he was bound to begin with, how did this come about without grace?25:22 We think that we are the physical body, how has this mistake occurred?30:22 How can we remove the ego of 'I am the doer'?34:34 Why does a disciple receive testing from the Guru as a personality?42:12 'You can make everything in the mind disappear but not the mind itself'45:13 Was Ashtavakra born Self-Realized?   Why do some Yogis have to go through more suffering in their tapas than others have to do?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Consciousness and Energy | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.159Recorded on 30th December 2023 with worldwide participants0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:42 What is consciousness?1:42 What is energy?3:34 Is the energy we see in the world the same as what is within consciousness?5:30 How can there be smaller consciousnesses within one all pervaded consciousness?12:48 Is this imagination a quality of the energy-consciousness?27:14 Is the creation or the imagination itself wrong?33:51 Can scientists find the true nature of consciousness and energy?41:29 In tapas, are you aware of the physical body?42:02 Can a thought within consciousness be aware of itself?45:41 What causes an individual consciousness to be born as a human being with the capability of reaching Self Realisation?49:16 How the mind experiences happiness once and for all50:35 Are activities like running or music which quieten the mind be helpful, or are they a distraction?52:25 Do we have to mentally suffer as we recognise the ego during meditation to bring us back to peace?55:30 Does the mind die?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Faith and Practice | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.158Recorded on 23rd December 2023 with worldwide participants0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:53 What is faith and why is it necessary on the path of spirituality?4:23 Is faith necessary to practice meditation and does the practice of meditation help to develop faith?6183 In meditation when the mind becomes concentrated and settles down, developing self-confidence, is that connected to faith?9:58 Where does this initial faith come from?  17:55 Is the source of the faith in the Guru and Guru's teachings, the one Real Self?20:01 What is the importance of practicing at least 1 hour of meditation every day?25.50 How to avoid getting attracted to the world and losing the path35:55 Should we be willing to let go of any preconception we have built up in our mind to be ready to learn?40:15 Ambaji on the need for soldiers to surrender during tough training in the army and Babaji's comments on tough training in the Ashram43:33 Ambaji on Babaji's unwavering discipline44:49 Ramana Maharshi upholding his duty even through physical illness and Swamiji refusing to stop His routine while undergoing dialysis47:78 In meditation what should we do if the focus keeps dropping from the eyebrows to the heart area?48:37 How do we develop the kind of faith that will make our master manifest before us?49:45 Are there ways other than doing our meditation practice of showing our faith to Babaji?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang The True Meaning of Yoga | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.157Recorded on 4th January 2024 with Malaysian participants0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:53 Yoga is explained as the union with origin or self.  Which origin or self is Babaji referring to?10:55 What should we do if after many years of meditation, the mind is not going inwards and more conscious of the real Self?27:22 What is the real Self and how do we recognise it?38:00 How has the Self forgotten itself?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Jangama Dhyana - The Technique | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.156Recorded on 12th August 2023 with worldwide participants0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:37 How was the meditation technique first revealed to Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj?8:55 How did the name Jangama Dhyana come about?10:22 What are Babaji's meditation instructions?14:48 What is the importance of keeping head and neck straight?16:20 The instruction to 'gently close your eyes'20:48 The position of the 'third eye' where we concentrate the mind and sight22:33 The instruction 'do not repeat and mantra or name, do not imagine anything'28:32 Is there a technical reason to meditate for 1 hour?30:05 Are there signs of progress in meditation, like visions or experiences?35:05 What are we doing wrong if we are finding meditation difficult?40:45 When I meditate why can I only stop the mind for a few minutes only, but then thoughts come up?46:00 How does this technique enable the mind to disconnect from the body?47:36 What is the practice of kayakalpa?49:12 Is god a personality that can think?51:22 Concentrating on the breath in meditation53:00 How can we repay Babaji for everything Babaji does for us?53:50 If the body sways during meditation, should we stop that?___Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YHFKcPK_XT96VO7xuk6RQWebsite: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Science and Spirituality | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.155Recorded on 26th August 2023 with worldwide participants0:00 Introduction00:06 The parallels between the scientific and spiritual approach02:58 Can looking externally to the world eventually lead to the truth?05:10 Why can we not see or measure the truth?12:43 Do all  definitions finally need to be given up?13:48 Consciousness as the fundamental reality20:44 How society can have faith in spirituality as it has in science.27:32 Is it important to experience the results of applying the method of meditation?38:53 Why is the mind so easily influenced by the brain every day?40:01 Can the use of drugs i.e. from mushrooms etc have the same influence on the mind as meditation?42:42 Why should Swamiji's story of the Jangama Deva coming out of the fruit be believed?43:35 If a single mind passes away, does that individual's universe disappear?46:13 A student being drawn to monkhood49:39 Is the energy of consciousness the same as energy particles discovered in science?50:27 How to deal with an inability to practice___Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogiTwitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmissionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/