Understanding Impermanence and Attaining the Eternal | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.180

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The Power of Imagination and Illusion | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A, No.180
Recorded on 9 June 2024 with US participants.

0:00 Intro
0:04 What is the 'love of being' that makes one get through life's unsurmountable difficulties?
5:00 Is it because we have wrongly identified ourselves that we develop a need for things in our life?
7:13 Overcoming the idea of ourselves as a person with the practice of meditation.
11:17 Is it our mind that changes, not ourselves?
11:50 The distinction between consciousness and mind
13:03 Removing the sense of 'I am' to achieve Nirvikalpa Samadhi
14:11 The word for 'I am consciousness' could just be 'mind'?
15:05 At first you realise yourself as the 'I' and then when that goes away you become universal existence?
18:08 Is the meditation technique is observing without analysing?
18:30 What is a definition of the Self?
19:17 What is a subtle body?
20:45 What happens to the subtle body at death?
21:53 Is the mind without a body what is called a soul?
22:26 Could the rebirth happen anywhere, not necessarily in this world?
23:29 Will your progress continue inthe next rebirth or do you have to start over?
25:13 Is the highest goal of life supreme peace?
27:14 Why does Tapas take so long before Self Realisation happens?
28:14 Is meditation just about removing thoughts, or is it also about understanding and realisation?
29:55 What is the difference between dreams and regular everyday thoughts?
32:24 Is karma simply in the imagination, there is no good or bad?
33:22 Can meditation practice go side by side with worldly activities?
35:19 How to let go of the 'I' thought
36:49 What is the choice that Swamiji made to come back to the world?
38:33 The experience of a loved one leaving the body
39:30 What is Siddhi and Samadhi?
41:05 Is marriage necessary for a seeker who wishes to go into Tapas?
41:38 What are two other things we can do during the day, like reading or service work?
43:13 What is the difference between service work and karma yoga?
44:30 Is there any hope for humanity?
45:30 When we sit to meditate should we think of our individual 'I' that is trying to watch?
46:54 For someone who does bad things but thinks they are doing good, will their actions be registered as a bad thing?
47:48 Does a Yogi become everything in this universe, having lost the individual ego?
49:27 Is Mahasamdhi the same thing as becoming a Yogi?
50:30 Do we become shunya or nothing eventually?
51:04 How do we spread awareness of Babaji's teachings?
52:03 What are angels?

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