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A series of Q&As filmed at the Shivabalayogi Devarayasamudram Ashram in South India during a meditation retreat with Shri Babaji over the course of 10 days. Recorded in February 2025. 0:00 Intro0:11 Why does watching in meditation dissolve thoughts and burn acquired habits so successfully?5:00 Who is doing the watching in mediation?5:44 Jangama Dhyana means … Read more
Recorded on 10 August 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro0:55 Chapter 15, verse one, “A student whose mind is pure and calm learns easily..”2:09 Chapter 15, verse one – Babaji’s comments3:44 What is a corrupted mind and what causes the mind to be corrupted?5:22 How can you uncorrupt the mind and pay attention?6:10 So you … Read more
Photos from a meditation session in Perth, Australia, December 2025 with Shri Babaji.
Recorded on 8 November 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:07 What is faith and why is it so important?5:28 Faith does not depend on any result.8:45 Without a guru would it be very difficult to overcome the ego?11:45 How does one get attracted to a real Self-Realized guru?14:20 If we follow the practice as taught … Read more
A devotee who has studied Jyotisha astrology for many years has sent the following message to Babaji giving a detailed horoscope of using Babaji’s birth data. We thought it might be interesting for seekers and devotees to read: The horoscope confirms Sri Babaji to be not just enlightened but also a Great Soul. There are … Read more
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 mind-bogglingly vast universe, they went for the root cause.
Recorded on 25 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:14 When a thought pops up in the mind, what is it that has created that thought?1:42 Has the mind created that thought within itself?4:02 Everything we perceive of as the world, that is entirely within our own mind. Does the world exist outside of our … Read more
Recorded on 4 May 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:24 What is the nature of quietude?4:35 With meditation, by just watching, it brings the mind to silence and everything disappears, and only the Self that you are remains?9:03 Does a Yogi have thoughts?12:30 Chapter 10, Verses 1 and 2 “Give up desire, wealth, even the … Read more
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 during His 5 year Tapas.
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 more about Babaji’s life and tapas: https://shivarudrabalayogi.org/babaji/
The Retreat took place from 28th September to 10th October 2025
Recorded on 18 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:20 There are so many myths about the powers that one can get through meditation. What powers can one get through meditation?7:02 How can one be more successful in life when one meditates?10:00 Is it possible for a Guru who has done a lot of meditation … Read more
Recorded on 11 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:14 Do religions and spirituality lead to the same goals?9:51 How do we choose which path to adopt?11:30 Some religions say after death there is rebirth, others say there isn’t – which is correct?21:16 Is there a heaven and is the goal of life heaven or … Read more
Recorded on 27 July 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro0:48 Chapter 14, verse 11:22 “The mind being fully settled in the Self” – what do you mean by the mind?4:22 For a Self Realized person, do thoughts arise in the mind?6:21 So thoughts arise as needed and then spontaneously settle down?6:50 It seems that the … Read more
Recorded on 23 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:15 Babaji’s comment on the quote from Yoga Vasistha: “In the whole of creation, there is no force more powerful than personal effort in the present.”8:36 If that peace is the mind’s natural state, why does it take effort to attain it?14:43 If one puts in … Read more
0:06 The end of pleasure is liberation.10:17 Why are we all after the desires if it is the cause of unhappiness? 16:17 Countless universes have been created in our own mind – how can we realise the truth of this creation in one moment? 22:57 Destiny and self effort. 32:58 Why should we not weep … Read more
Recorded on 13 September 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:06 What is the true meaning of non-violence9:38 When Babaji says ‘you have a right to defend yourself’ – is that the self respect? That Babaji talks about?11:25 Is it the human being that has the ability to rise out of violence compared to the animal … Read more
Recorded on 13 April 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro0:06 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.1-41:36 ‘To whom do the conflicts belong?’5:39 Is detachment something that you can practice?8:17 Difference between detachment, indifference and apathy and how a Yogi acts in the world9:40 How Babaji seems detached and the most caring also.10:25 So the important thing to … Read more
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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
Babaji narrates the story of the Tapasvin and the rat, a story that Swamiji once told to a sanyasin who had a desire to own
Babaji narrates the story of the monk and the prostitute which His Guru Shri Swamiji used to tell countless times about how we waste our
In this story from the Yoga Vasistha, Sage Shuka Maharishi visits King Janaka to find out how He is able to keep His mind on
