Zen Grisdale, Author at SHIVA RUDRA BALAYOGI

What Is Real Freedom? – online Q&A, No. 113

27th May 202422nd October 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 22 October 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji4:05 Is freedom the ability to do what we want to do?8:13 How have we bound ourselves?14:47 Is suffering there as a reminder that there is a problem?16:30 Does separation give rise to the ego and is this what we need to be free … Read more

Developing self-integrity to grow spiritually – online Q&A, No.115

1st July 202420th October 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 20 October 2022 with Malaysian participants 0:00 Intro0:32 What is self-integrity in spirituality?4:32 How do we develop and sustain self-integrity?8:20 What are the characteristics of a person with self-integrity?12:37 Is having integrity only a virtue or does working on oneself to achieve integrity get converted to sadhana?15:07 If one practices meditation sincerely, do … Read more

The Self – online Q&A, No. 112

28th May 202415th October 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 15 October 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji5:15 What is our true nature and why are we not aware of it?14:52 As Babaji says, the imagination is no ordinary thing17:17 Can we say the imagination is not real but the experience of the imagination is real?20:19 The ‘space’ as absolute, the … Read more

What is a Yogi? – online Q&A, No. 111

28th May 20248th October 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 8 October 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:12 What is a yogi?2:23 A yogi might seem like an ordinary person, but is the experience of a Yogi different?4:05 Is a yogi different from what we would consider a saint or a spiritual person in the West?4:50 Might a yogi appear not to be … Read more

Overcoming the Tricks of the Mind – online Q&A No.110

5th June 20241st October 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 1 October 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:10 What does Babaji mean by the ‘tricks of the mind’?1:39 Are the tricks of the mind connected to expectations?2:47 On the path to achieving liberation, is everything in the mind a test to keep quiet?6:35 If we go on rejecting what is not the truth, … Read more

Sadhana and Emotions – online Q&A No.109

28th May 202424th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 24 September 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:30 What should we do for the rest of the day outside meditation?3:02 Is there a need for any other sadhana if we practice meditation properly?4:52 Through meditation we don’t absorb impressions so much, is this something we consciously need to do or is it an … Read more

The Mind and the Brain – online Q&A No.108

28th May 202417th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 17 September 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:17 What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?5:00 The brain as a tool to go towards the Self but also away from the Self14:48 Is the ultimate aim of meditation to bypass the brain?19:47 Is it possible to use the brain to its … Read more

The Power of the Self – online Q&A, No. 104

28th May 202415th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 15 September 2022 with Malaysian participants 0:00 Intro0:16 What is the real Self? Is it separate from the individual self?6:20 What are the benefits of knowing ourselves?11:35 What is this power that the topic ‘the power of the Self ‘ is referring to?20:30 How best should we use this power in this life?23:44 … Read more

Meditation: A Purification Process – online Q&A No.107

28th May 202410th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 10 September 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:20 What is it that is being purified in meditation?6:30 How does the meditation practice work to purify the mind of its habits?11:52 Is this silent practice without any external anchor the highest form of purification?16:33 Should we not take anything of the world … Read more

How To Not Be Fooled By The Brain

16th October 20229th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Babaji explains how we can use the brain without letting it fool you.

Watch the full Q&A, Thus Spake Babaji No.80, at https://youtu.be/p5rh3V8-Q2I

‘I am-ness’ and the Self – online Q&A, no.117

1st July 20244th September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 4 September 2022 with US participants 0:00 Intro0:20 What is the difference between ‘I am’ consciousness and the consciousness of existence?0:28 Is ‘I am’ consciousness a product of the mind?2:31 If the bundle of thoughts the mind appears and disappears, we can’t be that?4:12 Is there consciousness with no thought?5:20 Is there a … Read more

Sadhana in Daily Life – online Q&A No.106

28th May 20243rd September 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 03 September 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:16 What does Babaji mean by the term sadhana?1:35 The story when Swamiji pulled Babaji up for translating sadhana as meditation5:45 Outside of meditation are there things we can do to keep the mind quiet as a sadhana?7:42 Babaji explains how practicing service is not a … Read more

Shri Babaji’s message on Vinayaka Chaturthi

23rd September 202331st August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

August 2022 “May Lord Ganesha remove all obstacles.Our prayers and blessings on the auspicious birthday of Shri Ganesha – Jai Shivabalayogi. Your’s at Swamiji’s lotus feet-Babaji.” With love and blessings,Baba Shiva Rudra Balayogi

The Mind and Mind Control – online Q&A No.105

28th May 202427th August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 27 August 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:16 The mind as your conscious energy4:07 How to go beyond the idea of ‘me and mine’8:39 Is the brain the main cause of the ego?14:56 Does God exist or is it a concept adopted by people in their own way?22:02 Does your own destiny play … Read more

Meditation and Supreme Peace – online Q&A, No.116

1st July 202421st August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 21 August 2022 with US participants 0:00 Intro0:11 What is meditation and the value of it?4:17 Can you find peace in the mind?6:00 What is sat chit ananda?8:39 How can you think in the world and remain in supreme peace?11:45 Where does the ‘I am’-ness come from?19:27 How is love that is experienced … Read more

Swamiji’s Mother and Babaji’s Parents Aradhana – Photos

24th December 202321st August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

21 August 2022 in Devarayasamudram

Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj – The Early Years – online Q&A, No. 103

25th May 202420th August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 20 August 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:18 What were the main in-born qualities of Swamiji as a young boy?3:16 What if we don’t have the same in-born qualities as Swamiji?4:00 Is it a wrong interpretation to describe the young Swamiji as extroverted, active and worldly wise?8:40 What was happening at the time … Read more

Swamiji’s Mother and Babaji’s Parents Aradhana

24th December 202320th August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Babaji’s Message “They were great Souls. Pujya Allaka Parvatamma, Our Parama Pujya Guru Maharaj’s great mother. She had been blessed to give birth to a great Yogi like Shivabalayogi is itself great. In her personality of simplicity, humility, and never had any ego. Looked after all devotees of Guru Maharaj as her own children. She … Read more

The True Meaning of Yoga – online Q&A, No.102

28th May 202413th August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Recorded on 13 August 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:15 What lineage of yoga does Babaji belong to?2:54 Is it because of the habit to think that we are away from the yoga?5:28 The quality the consciousness has to imagine12:33 Yoga through being silent while performing action19:30 Do all the paths of yoga, bhakti, karma, … Read more

Shri Swamiji’s Tapas Purti – 7th August

6th August 20246th August 2022 by Zen Grisdale

Shri Babaji’s message on the auspicious occasion of beloved Guru Shri Swamiji’s Tapas Purti OM SHIVAYA SHIVABALAYOGENDRAYA PARABRAMHANAYA “It’s celebrations all over the world for devotees of The Great, Shivabalayogi Maharaj. 61st anniversary of His 12 years marathon amazing Tapas for Self Realization. It was a Divine intervention to give Him as a Yogi for … Read more

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