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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.160
Recorded on 25th November 2023 with worldwide participants
0:00 Introduction from Babaji
01:20 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?
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