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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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The mind, consciousness and meditation | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.228

June 19, 2025 • Shiva Rudra Balayogi • Season 1 • Episode 228

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The mind, consciousness and meditation | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.228
Recorded on 7 June 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 How is our mind a clue to who we really are?
5:19 Only through the mind you can catch your existence.
6:46 If your attention is away from the thoughts, is it automatically onto the Self?
7:52 By avoiding the thoughts, they cannot exist?
9:54 If you stop the mind you don't disappear, so the thoughts and imaginations are not who we are at all?
12:42 We need to go introverted.
15:04 Babaji has said that a small portion of the Self has come out and got involved in the brain - how has this happened?
23:30 The importance of keeping the attention focused continuously.
26:40 We make simple things complicated.
29:35 Efforts are needed to make the mind quiet, only then people can see the benefit of a peaceful mind?
32:45 How can we gain knowledge without creating mental constructs and reinforce the ego?
37:07 If this is all imagination, what is our body? Is everything in this world an imagination?
39:09 Does god decide who is a bad person?
40:28 What is the importance of darshan?
41:19 How can thoughts stay for so long if they are impermanent in nature?
45:06 How to get to a deeper place of practice?
47:46 Does going into longer meditations happen automatically in a gentle approach?
48:30 Does meditation make a person less intellectual, less joyous, more serious and socially withdrawn?
49:45 Why are most people unable to achieve what Babaji has acheived?
51:09 Babaji has to guide us to achieve Self Realization.

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