Thus Spake Babaji Shiva Rudra Balayogi

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Atma Sakshatkar | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.171
Recorded on 4 April 2024 with Malaysian participants.

0:00 Introduction
0:13 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

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Atma Sakshatkar | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.170
Recorded on 6 April 2024 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Introduction from Babaji
2:25 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 meditation
40:23 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?

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Consciousness, the mind and meditation | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.169
Recorded on 14 January 2024 with US participants.

0:00 Introduction from Babaji
0:29 Mind has to become quiet to know the Self
10:05 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 awareness
17:47 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 consciousness
25:32 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 distractions
32:45 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 Yudhishthira
38:58 A devotee's comment on Babaji's teachings
40:48 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

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Prarabdha - Destiny | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.168
Recorded on 2 March 2024 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Introduction
0:05 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.

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The Teachings of the Yoga Vasistha | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.167
Recorded on 24 February 2024 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Introduction
0:35 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 foolish
24:12 How is time and space an imagination?
30:00 How mind and matter will all return to the origin
37:10 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 Vasistha
53:17 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 meditation
58:29 What is the difference between shushupti and turiya?
59:33 How the Atman, due to relationship with matter, acquires characteristics of matter
01:00:52 How to go beyond the feeling of being stuck within the body
01:02:55 "If you can see with the vision that lies between the looker and the object looked upon"

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Religion and Spirituality Pt 2 | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.166
Recorded on 2 February 2024 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Introduction
0:17 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?
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