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How can we change ourselves? | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.226
Recorded on 21 December 2024 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:06 What does Babaji mean by the term devotion?
2:30 What part does faith play in devotion?
4:15 What was Babaji taught about devotion by His mother?
5:39 How did devotion evolve and increase in Babaji's life?
6:41 Are rituals in the various religions around the world useful?
8:20 Could Babaji explain the technique by which prayers are useful?
11:57 If we perform devotional rituals, does that remove a person's karma?
13:30 What is the meaning of Aarati?
15:09 Why did Swamiji use the term Bhakti Marga for spirituality?
17:00 "Of all those means of attaining liberation, Bhakti is the highest means... ...Bhakti can also b described as the search for one's own true Self." quote from the Viveka Choodamani
18:12 It is possible to reach the ultimate truth without any devotional aspect to one's sadhana?
20:06 Is it true that not everybody's devotional tendency is the same?
22:11 Is there a way one can increase one's level of devotion?
23:30 Are there character traits which are apparent in a person who is truly devotional?
24:33 What is the place of gratitude in Bhakti Marga?
25:26 What is the meaning and purpose of the concept of Ishta Devata?
26:58 What is the concept of Shiva Lingam?
28:23 What role does body - mind play on the path of Bhakti Yoga?
31:24 How to overcome laziness which becomes a big hurdle in Bhakti Marga?
32:36 In meditation is there a difference between falling asleep and falling into tantra? What can I do to stay alert?
34:16 There are so many gurus around, how do I know my guru?
35:09 Is Self Realisation possible without rituals?
36:33 Many times I surrender to the Almighty but some times my mind becomes judgemental. Is that correct or not?
37:24 A personal question regards seeing suffering and illness of family members.
41:12 Why do I hear a constant sound during my brain during sadhana. What should I do?
41:58 A quote from Ramakrishna, a question regards whether God's Grace works even if one if not devoted.
43:50 By taking the name of the Divine, how can the burden be His?
45:12 Why do we show reverence to Ardhanarishwara at the end of the Aarati?
50:18 Ravana did meditation for many years but still had faults and arrogance, why was that?

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How can we change ourselves? | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.225
Recorded on 18 April 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:07 Why is it so difficult to see our own faults and put in efforts to change ourselves?
6:07 If we don't see change in our character even though we are practicing sadhana - why is this?
22:15 Does spiritual yearning come to all of us eventually?
27:02 How do we overcome difficulties in life?
28:44 Should we concentrate on ourselves instead of trying to change the world?
33:07 Even if a Self Realised Yogi does not come out into the world, are they still helping the world in some way?
34:25 The thought of letting go of attachment to worldly things makes me angry and fearful even though I know there is no lasting joy in these things.
36:25 How to get rid of bad, negative, ugly and repetitive thoughts and the guilt trip thereafter?
37:46 How to protect ourselves from negative energy when meditating in different places?
38:40 Are all the paths of bhakti yoga, karma yoga and jnana yoga needed to achieve Self Realization?
41:06 If one experiences expanding beyond the body and the body dissolving, should one still focus in between the eyebrows?
42:10 Is the state of samadhi and deep sleep the same?
43:33 What is the point of trying to change oneself if the goal is not person-hood? Is trying to be a better person not an ego?
45:38 The mind jumping into arguments uncontrollably due to ADHD.
47:38 Feeling demoralised when mind is distracted many times during meditation and inability to become the desired personality.
49:00 Can we meditate on the bare floor?
49:44 Can meditation help criminals change?
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The Droplet and the Ocean | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.224
Recorded on 29 March 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:07 What is the droplet and what is the ocean?
2:47 Everything that we think we are as an individual does not actually exist?
3:57 Would it have been a very long journey to reach the situation we are in now where it's difficult to think in any other way?
9:07 A passage from the Viveka Choodamani - do we have to accept the world as it is and not go into a collision with it?
15:25 I it because we hold on to the thoughts and imaginations that we remain as a droplet?
20:50 Can a Yogi have a thought and still remain as the ocean?
24:18 Nothing has happened to the ocean of the Self, it remains intact.
34:18 Does the quietness have to be more interesting than the world?
38:49 What are the efforts that need to be made to return to the ocean, the Self, in addition to meditation?
41:12 Is there no in-between state between being Self Realised and not being Self Realised?
41:32 Does the Self have intelligence?
42:49 Does silence have a sound or a texture? How to recognise it?
45:44 Should I sit in meditation more than doing japam?
46:44 How can we achieve through paths other than meditation like Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga?
48:33 The more I am silent and meditate, I am unable to connect with family members.
49:45 Are animals and plants droplets also?
50:43 Does the space or ocean have some divine law or rules which we have to adhere to?
55:58 Is it the patterns and habits of the mind that go on as a seed to the next birth - is that the individual soul?
57:43 Although many masters have appeared throughout human history to bring everlasting peace, why is work still in progress?

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Yoga Vasistha, Vairagya Part 3 | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.223
Recorded on 3 May 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Introduction
0:38 "All hopes of man are consistently destroyed by time." If time is unreal, how can something unreal be indestructible?
7:26 What is the relation between silence and time?
9:53 Are time and space different aspects of the same thing?
11:52 Has a Yogi has overcome the effects of time?
14:17 Lord Yama as the presiding deity of time.
17:09 "Only that thing which cannot be lost I can regard as a gain, but such a thing does not exist in this world."
23:28 One who has given up everything but has not yet reached the Truth.
26:27 The story of Shuka Maharaj and King Janaka.
34:33 How can we perform Guru Seva when we are staying away from Babaji?
35:36 How can we have a two-way communication with God?
36:09 A feeling that something is spinning on the head during meditation.
37:00 Meaning of the Sanskrit term chid vyoma.
38:59 The concept of Mother kali in relation to time.
40:06 For a Yogi, time does not exist? Was it bondage of mind and thus time that made Shri Rama feel acute vairagya?
42:30 How to know if there is progress from meditation into samadhi? Is then self awareness effortless or is still effort is needed?
43:40 Why does the mind not let the body be disciplined?
44:42 Is it possible to divide the meditation into two parts, morning and evening?

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Viveka Choodamani - Impermanence of the Physical Body | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.222
Recorded on 10 April 2025 with Malaysian participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 13 - The impermanence of the physical body, verses 72 & 73
1:34 How in the first place did the misidentification of consciousness identifying as the body and mind happen?
3:15 Do we also need to detach ourselves from people in our lives in order to achieve peace?
5:13 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 13 - The impermanence of the physical body, verses 74 & 75
6:30 What is the connection between jeevatma, mind and consciousness?
8:42 Are the brain's reflections just past imprints of the mind or are they fresh imaginations? How do we get out of this delusion?
12:30 Through meditation can we change our destiny?
16:18 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 14 - Rejecting the impermanent, verses 76 & 77
17:51 How can we keep the senses engaged in the world and at the same time keep them withdrawn?
23:01 If we have the mind under our control, the brain can be the best friend otherwise it can be the worst enemy
31:20 How does learning to control and withdraw our senses to live a better life in this dangerous world of ill-minded people?
38:35 Outro

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The mind, the brainand its reflections | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.220
Recorded on 5 April 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 The mind has come out of the Self
6:10 Is the mind and the Self the same substance?
12:06 The unique relationship between brain and mind
21:45 The brain needs more than blood and electrical impulses to function
26:10 Does the mind also need a brain to exist as a mind?
29:01 If the brain becomes damaged, does that damage the mind?
31:32 When we become happy, is that simply when the mind becomes more quiet?
33:51 Is the mind being quiet the same as being focussed or concentrated?
45:20 How to get free from bodily identification also doing the waking state?
48:14 Who is at peace if we do not have sense of self?
49:35 When the imagination is stopped, what is there?
50:30 An out-of-body experience
53:42 "just like a crow alights on the tree, a coconut falls - this happens in mere coincidence" quote from Sage Vasistha - with respect to unreality of the world

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Keeping quiet mentally | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.220
Recorded on 15 March 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:14 Why does Babaji recommend that we put in efforts to become quiet in the mind?
5:55 Is the concentration of the mind the same as the quietening of the mind?
7:40 Why has it become so difficult for the mind to be quiet?
10:11 Do we need to let go of desires and expectations in order to become quiet?
13:39 Is the recommendation not to be too attached to things?
17:54 What should we be doing in the meditation for the mind to become quiet?
26:37 So during meditation we should not worry about whether we are quiet or not, just apply the method?
27:06 A Yogi may appear to be acting in a normal way but inside is totally different?
32:36 Outside meditation, when active in the world, how can we be quiet?
34:28 When staring off into space and not thinking, is that laziness or something else?
35:52 Can we use the mind in the same way we use a switch to turn a light on whenever we need it?
37:19 While reading Ashtavakra Samhita, I experience an attachment to god for a short while, is that ok?
38:13 If 100 people in the world become Self Realised and the world collapses, what about the rest of humanity - what will happen to them?
38:45 How is the Ultimate Truth of the mind and the Divinity the same thing?
40:09 At the end of the meditation, how do I know whether my attention slipped off during the meditation?
41:46 How to achieve being mentally quiet through Bhakti yoga and Karma yoga?
42:53 I experience short periods of silence during meditation, how to prolong the silence and reduce the chatter?
43:48 When getting up in the morning, the mind starts overthinking and gives discomfort to the body in meditation.
45:00 Until we perfect holding the eyeballs in between eyebrows, the eyes are still active in meditation - is purification still happening?

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Judgements and Discrimination | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.219
Recorded on 1st February 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:07 What is the difference between judgements and discrimination?
2:14 Are discriminations always for a larger cause and judgements are made for narrow-minded personal choices?
8:32 How can a common person discriminate properly without making judgements and impressions in the mind?
17:19 How not to be judgemental to ourself and be more compassionate to ourself?
18:52 What is a judgement and what is discrimination?
22:11 Should we give someone who has done wrong another chance? How many times should we give fair chances?
23:23 Should we always avoid making quick judgements empowered by our emotions?
27:42 When we forgive without judgement, is this not justified?
28:13 How does ego impair our judgements?
29:24 How do we judge our own actions in the right way so we don't underestimate our own abilities?

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