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Recorded on 14 January 2024 with US participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:34 Mind has to become quiet to know the Self10:10 How can we strengthen our faith so we can realise the need for meditation and make more effort?14:54 When the watcher no longer sees an object, what happens to the watcher?16:00 Difference between consciousness … Read more
Recorded on 2 March 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction0:10 What is prarabdha?2:37 What determines the way in which we return to the real Self?5:27 Why is destiny taught?7:48 Should we be trying to make the mind quiet?8:57 Does prarabdha exist for a Yogi?9:47 Is Babaji’s prarabdha to teach others about the Truth?12:16 Is it … Read more
March 28th 2024 It is 30 years ago that Shri Guru Maharaj attained Mahasamadhi. Physical disappearance from our eyes.He has continued to show His presence in every way to devotees. I remember, once Swamiji composed a song and sang beautifully in Telugu which runs as,“Have seen trees and oceans. Have seen humans and animals. Sometimes … Read more
Recorded on 24 February 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction0:40 What is the Yoga Vasistha?7:22 “The thing that exists in itself” – what is the meaning of the Self in this phrase from Yoga Vasistha?17:20 Why in Yoga Vasistha it says that if you consider your body as yourself you are foolish24:17 How is time … Read more
Recorded on 2 February 2024 with Malaysian participants. 0:00 Introduction0:22 What does Babaji mean by ‘the secrets of your own existence’?5:08 What is the best attitude to take when dealing with all the religions and teachings around us?15:48 What is the significance of worshiping a stone idol and how to respond to criticism of the … Read more
0:14 Why is this meditation technique called ‘Jangama Dhyana’?2:38 The technique12:38 Watching and thinking – the secret of not getting involved into the thoughts20:40 What duration of meditation does Babaji recommend?22:08 The importance of practice23:51 When should we meditate?26:33 Do we have to have a specific diet?28:13 Benefits of this meditation for a householder Jangama … Read more
Maha Shivaratri is very auspicious for Hindus all over the world. Swamiji Shivabalayogi said Shivalingam symbolizes both Form and Formlessness of Divinity, the Ultimate Truth. Midnight 12 AM is considered an auspicious moment of Lord Shiva’s appearance. Day long homa, satsang, abhishekams are performed. Wedding ceremony of Lord Shiva, the Supreme Consciousness and Adi Para … Read more
Recorded on 6 January 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction0:11 What does Babaji mean when He uses the word faith?4:39 How is it we can develop a faith in god since we can’t see god?15:50 How is self-confidence different from pride or arrogance?27:09 Does faith come through grace?33:56 Is faith all we need?37:01 Are there … Read more
Recorded on 28 January 2024 with US participants 0:00 Introduction0:13 “It’s not the mind that knows but because of the mind that we know”1:24 The mind getting involved in the imaginations, away from the pure consciousness6:03 Distinction between pure consciousness and the sense of “I”11:14 Is consciousness in every atom of creation?12:27 Creation and the … Read more
Recorded on 09 December 2023 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji 2:40 What is peace and why is it the recommended goal? 3:58 Can there still be peace when the mind is active? 5:05 Are happiness and peace related? 7:20 How the truth of existence cannot be found through thinking 10:46 How when you … Read more
In 2016 the Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj Ashram was inaugurated on approximately two acres, since that time more acreage has been added with a designation for agriculture on the new land bringing the total acreage to nine in 2024. This expansion has allowed for adding a temple complex, a separate eating hall with guest rooms above, … Read more
Recorded on 18 January 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction 0:19 Can Babaji please explain what is meant by, “Man exists as the immortal which is beyond the birth and death of the physical body.”? 4:36 How does Parabrahma relate to the concepts of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and to us? 8:36 What does it … Read more
Recorded on 27 January 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji1:03 Can Babaji explain how we are beyond the birth and death of this body?6:05 Is it because of the imaginations and tendencies that we have acquired that this birth and death appears to us?10:53 If in this lifetime we cannot achieve Self-Realization, what … Read more
Recorded on 25th November 2023 with worldwide participants 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 0:00 Introduction from Babaji01:25 How did King Janaka come to be Ashtavakra’s disciple?11:53 When … Read more
Recorded on 30th December 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:47 What is consciousness?1:47 What is energy?3:39 Is the energy we see in the world the same as what is within consciousness?5:35 How can there be smaller consciousnesses within one all pervaded consciousness?12:53 Is this imagination a quality of the energy-consciousness?27:19 Is the creation … Read more
As we are celebrating Shri Guru Maharaj Shivabalayogi’s 89th birthday,we all devotees feel most blessed and fortunate that the Divine came as Shivabalayogi and showed the path of Dhyana and Bhaktito regain awareness of our real existence addressedas Self, Ultimate truth, the Divinity and so on.The creation, Universe, the Earth and we all are blessed.We … Read more
“You are not earth, water, fire, air or space. To attain that Liberation, know the Self as the witness of these, the pure form of Consciousness of Existence.“ In this newly published book, Shri Babaji gives His commentary on the “Ashtavakra Samhita”, one of the great spiritual texts of India, a dialogue between the Self-Realized … Read more
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Babaji explains that if everything happened according to our wishes, why would you need the Divinity? When we are away from the Divine we suffer,
Babaji sings the bhajan Dhimika Dhimika Dhim, recorded in 2001 at a program given by Babaji at Finesse Language school in Dehradun.
Taken from the Q&A ‘The mind and the Self’ In Quest of Truth – Babaji Q&A, No. 259
Babaji talks of the knowledge of the great sages who enquired into the Self to find from where the ‘I’ feeling was coming. Within this
Leo, a Romanian devotee, talks about the time he visited the Dehradun Ashram 27 years ago in November 1998 and witnessed Babaji sitting in Samadhi
Shri Babaji explains the 3 stages that occur as the mind gets more concentrated in Tapas on the way to achieving Self Realisation. Find out
“This was a mesmerizing song that Adi Shankara had composed. It says Adi Shankara was camping in the pilgrimage town of Banaras Kashi in India.
Shri Babaji tells the story of Jadabharata, which His Master Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj used to narrate. The story warns that having attachments to the world
