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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 ability to rise out of violence compared to the animal kingdom.
20:18 Where we can we adjust and manage, but If we have no choice, we have to defend ourselves and go into a conflict. What is the difference between these approaches?
29:36 If we aim for moksha then why do people raise a family and bring another life into this world?
34:03 Hanuman burning down the Lanka and Krishna telling Arjun to kill Bhisma - how is this ahimsa?
38:02 Are we violating non-violence by eating meat?
39:18 Was Krishan advising Arjuna to shoot weapons at the Kauravas as an act of self defence?
39:36 Is the ego of being righteous and a good person also violence?
42:23 When Babaji had to defend the Ashram and chose the path of conflict, it was dharma - but for someone else it might look like a violent act?
43:35 Is it ok to keep eyes closed when Babaji says to open the eyes at the end of meditation?
44:20 When we watch in between the eyebrows are we to imagine that area?

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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 Yogi acts in the world
9:40 How Babaji seems detached and the most caring also.
10:25 So the important thing to remind yourself if that the body, mind and world are impermanent?
12:32 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4
13:43 What causes the consciousness of existence to lose awareness of itself?
17:09 How to we develop detachment, let go of things and not get carried away emotionally?
20:50 The consciousness is never suffering, it's not involved in the activity.
22:51 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4
25:32 Does a Yogi have happiness or unhappiness, or is he just in a state of peace?
27:58 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.5-8
29:38 "Once one knows the varying transformation of the elements to be nothing but the elements themselves."
32:58 Mental impressions, mind, consciousness, a brain gets involved and mental impressions are created.
33:54 How can we have a better attitude? Be like a honeybee and not a fly?
35:29 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8
36:48 How a Yogi is "totally indifferent to the world in consciousness"
39:27 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8
41:40 Mental suffering from worry about loved ones
45:00 How do we protect ourselves from other people's negativity?
46:50 When I wake up in the morning, there is a lowness of energy and a kind of a sadness. What happens to the mind that causes this?
48:34 Lately I have this feeling that there are less and less differences between people, things, and whatnot. That on some level, they're really all the same. Is this so?
50:13 How to avoid suffering due to loved ones.
52:29 How to pray to god?
53:28 I am not in close physical proximity to a Guru - how to get Diksha, initiation from a Master?
56:10 Just like in a dream, is it true that all the people and characters we witness are actually the same I-Self emanating from the body consciousness?
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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 strength."
7:57 When we think it is a problem it becomes a problem.
8:35 If we can silence the mind whenever we wish to, then we can be free of any problems in the mind.
13:25 The watching process of meditation.
27:17 Atman and Anatman
32:14 Silence is the source from which everything arises - mind, world and ego are all one, when we wake up all three arise and when we sleep all three dissolve?
36:34 In daily life is it possible to have a silent mind?
40:28 Take a decision for the sake of taking a decision, then work. Once you have worked, then keep quiet. What has to happen will happen, that is all.
44:19 Should peace be dearer to you than things of the world.
47:15 Is the mind dual or multidimensional - it watches, thinks, analyses and creates.
48:24 We have to use the mind against the mind?
50:51 How to know what is a right or wrong decision.
53:11 What is the technology in watching where slowly the observer and the object starts splitting?
55:20 In the world where the brain is functioning, can we apply this 'watching'?
56:20 To Babaji, what is more important, the love for Swamiji or the silence of the mind?
57:07 What do I do to silence the negative wave of thoughts when waking up in the morning?
58:40 The scriptures say the mind is active in all the three states, waking state, dream state and deep sleep - is the mind when there are thoughts and is the ego there because of the thoughts?
1:02:29 What is the relationship between the brain and the mind when the brain is not functioning - what happens to the Self?
1:03:26 Does Jangama Dhyana restrain the life force or just silence the mind?

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