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Recorded on 11 March 2023 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:08 The final battle for a human being to control the mind13:30 Importance of adopting a discipline and not forcing the mind16:02 The polite but firm approach22:26 How we have to become infinite to control this infinite mind25:58 How to keep the mind quiet … Read more
Recorded on 22 January 2023 with US participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji3:16 Concentrating the mind and sight and then watching in meditation15:03 Importance of remembering Pure Consciousness even when we are not experiencing it?16:03 What is imagination?17:15 The mind and pure consciousness19:25 What does Babaji mean by the universe is the imagination of a bigger … Read more
Recorded on 17 November 2022 with Malaysian participants 0:00 Introduction0:20 What is the key thought or anchor that we have must have in our mind to carry out our roles in life spiritually?1:58 How do we track ourselves spiritually, what is the ideal to follow?4:17 When we surrender whatever we do to god, is that … Read more
Recorded on 21 January 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:02 The three thought processes that occur whenever we apply our mind on something6:39 How and why does a judgment create an imprint?16:14 With meditation practice, is it possible in daily life to make a judgment without absorbing an imprint?18:24 Does the brain still … Read more
Recorded on 14 January 2023 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:29 The technology of ‘watching’ in meditation5:37 What should we do when thoughts come up in meditation?10:02 Why do people find it difficult to meditate?16:14 Is it possible to have our attention on two things at the same time?18:35 Babaji has given us these … Read more
Recorded on 17 December 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji1:04 Importance of dedication4:25 Importance of discipline8:40 Importance of patience13:07 Is it important not to think of meditation in a negative way?17:06 How does one’s personality change as one practises meditation?21:08 Do we create the world we experience around us?23:21 The need for peace … Read more
Recorded on 10 December 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji0:59 When Babaji uses the term ‘oneness’ what does Babaji mean?2:46 If everything is one then why does it appear that there is a separation?3:42 Does a Yogi see themselves in everything?5:00 Is one’s like experiencing all the characters of a dream within yourself6:34 … Read more
Recorded on 3 December 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction to newcomers from Babaji2:06 Why should we meditate?5:24 Why should we focus in between the eyebrows?14:34 Why does Babaji recommend to meditate for at least 60 minutes?17:48 Are there people for whom meditation is not advised?19:02 Picking up habits from people we associate with22:33 What … Read more
Recorded on 26 November 2022 with worldwide participants. Babaji explains, step-by-step, the instructions of the meditation technique Jangama Dhyana. 0:00 Meditation instructions from Babaji2:10 The meaning of ‘dhyana’4:20 Meaning of ‘jangama dhyana’6:07 The posture for meditation8:19 Importance of closing the eyes in meditation11:36 Why the eyeballs are used to concentrate in meditation16:13 The secret of … Read more
Recorded on 5 November 2022 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:03 Is there a technique where we can practice remaining in the present?7:10 Does this nature which we see as divinity an illusion or does the divinity really exist?9:37 How does the mind come out of the whirlpool of habits carried on from previous … Read more
UK Retreat, September 2017 Question: In my work I often deal with difficult people who can be unreasonable. It can leave me very unsettled at times to the point where, when I try to sit in meditation I can’t put that down. Have you any suggestions on how to deal with this, please? Babaji: You … Read more
UK Retreat September 2017 Question:My question is about sadhana and spiritual practice. My spiritual practice for the last few years since I started my spiritual journey has been chanting a mantra for spontaneous meditation. I have found this has brought many spiritual transformations and is leading me to the truth. And I also feel that … Read more
UK Retreat September 2017 Question: Thank You. Yesterday you talked about focusing between the eyebrows and remaining there with the mind still. This focusing itself needs inner strength, I’ve experienced. How can we gain more inner strength? Babaji: A will power is needed. Always when we understand the need of it then … Read more
Retreat Dehradun – March 2016 Question: Is it unique to humans that there is this part of us that is in the world and part of us which is Supreme Consciousness? Babaji: Yes, it is possible for human beings because the discrimination power is there, the application of wisdom through which we try to discriminate. … Read more
Retreat Dehradun – March 2016 Question: Why does the mind imagine all these things? Babaji: Just for the sake of play it couldn’t keep quiet. It is energetic. When it is energetic it cannot keep quiet. When it becomes habitual it imagines. It tries to enjoy in every imagination. Ultimately the idea is to enjoy. … Read more
Retreat Dehradun – March 2016 Question: What causes the temptation and this tendency to get dragged into the world? Babaji: The basic reason is that you are looking for happiness. We think that this happiness is desired by enjoyment and that enjoyment comes when we own more things, when we become more powerful and more … Read more
Question: Babaji, I am doing my work for several years, like many people and somehow I feel that I can’t control the result. Of course I never can control the result but somehow I feel it’s very difficult to move forward spiritually. I don’t want to leave my duty because my duties are very important … Read more
2016 March Dehradun Question: Babaji, can you explain what happens when I am saying a mantra? What is going on between my mind and the universe? Babaji: When you are saying a mantra, your mind is trying to stick to one thought instead of millions of thoughts. That is what it is trying … Read more
Recorded on 29 April 2023 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction0:10 How Swamiji taught, emphasising the importance of your own experience7:54 How Swamiji taught in a unique way to bring meditation to every doorstep14:27 The two paths in life20:18 How can we develop the ‘do or die’ attitude that Swamiji had?29:45 The meaning of ‘Atma sakshatkara’36:26 … Read more
Recorded on 08 January 2023 with US participants. 0:00 Intro0:11 Babaji conveys a message for the new year5:22 Is the purpose of meditation for the consciousness to become aware of itself?6:49 How do we overcome the misidentification of the individual imagined self?9:40 What is consciousness’s attention?12:04 Concentrating the mind and sight in meditation?16:01 What else … 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
