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In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Shri Babaji

Anyone interested in meditation will find this series of questions and answers of interest. A Realized Meditation Master, Shri Babaji (Shri Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj), answers questions from people around the world on meditation and spirituality. His spontaneous answers are based on the wisdom gained from his own direct, first-hand experience of years of intense meditation (Tapas) and the teachings of his Guru, Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj. He explains how meditation works and the purpose and benefits of spirituality in clear, simple terms. These recordings are taken from a live online meditation class that Babaji holds every Saturday. They are precious opportunities to receive direct guidance from a Realized Master. To register please visit: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang

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Maya - the endless illusion | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.195

October 28, 2024 • Shiva Rudra Balayogi • Season 1 • Episode 195

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Maya - the endless illusion | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.195
Recorded on 12 October 2024 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:24 What is maya?
2:25 What's the difference between maya and samsara?
5:25 What is the power of the illusion that makes it appear as a reality?
11:20 "The appearance is latent in the infinite consciousness"
15:04 Can the illusion go on and on endlessly until we get out of it?
20:56 Why does the Yoga Vasistha refer to waking, sleeping and deep sleep states as the three worlds?
27:24 Is it important to think of the wakeful state as like the dream state?
33:43 What happens when we awake from this illusion?
35:35 What is the cosmic creation and cosmic dissolution?
38:15 Yoga Vasistha extract: "Dissolution of the world appearance that has never been, is not and it will never be. All this is pure consciousness and supreme peace. It exists as the infinite."
41:05 "Logical or physical conditioning is an appearance like the sound that is heard when the wind blows, which is heard though it is not there at all."
44:26 Is it ok to believe that we are totally protected by god and guru as we go through this?
45:05 What about the spirit world, star beings, guides or mediums?
45:53 How to avoid compulsion for food?
47:20 What is the prime maya?
48:28 How can anyone get liberated unless he drops his ego and personhood?
49:15 How can truth be experienced?
50:22 Withdrawing the mind through meditation - a questioner asks about her elderly mother.
53:00 A story from the Yoga Vasistha about the illusion - we believe and see whatever our mind tells us.
59:18 Is there no truth in trying to reason out what the mind is showing?
1:00:36 Unable to gather the strength to do something challenging.
1:01:32 What is the difference between Turiya and Nirvikalpa Samadhi?
1:01:55 Why is fear not included as one of the six shapes of the mind?
1:03:20 Doing puja for ancestors - how does this work?
1:05:56 Is whatever is playing out in this birth carried over from the previous birth's resolutions?
1:07:32 Does this meditation in Babaji's presence serve as initiation?

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