Zen Grisdale
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. 0:00 Intro0:07 Why does Shiva have Parvati? What is the role of Shakti?1:19 So does Babaji have Shakti?1:55 If Shiva had not married Shakti would creation have not happened?3:06 … Read more
Recorded on 29 June with US participants 0:00 Intro1:03 Chapter 12, Verse 1-42:28 How do you function in a world where you’re unattached to everything?8:49 Baba, are you saying that we should practice restraining our mind?9:06 So this is a practice that we can do every day?9:26 Like so many events in life, you just … Read more
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 the Self at all times whilst also taking care of His kingdom. This story comes in Yoga Vasistha and Swamiji used to talk about it. If I tell the story … Read more
Every year during this time it is celebrated as Vyasa Purnima also. Vyasa Maharishi is considered one of the greatest Gurus who brought into this, the Guru-disciple relationship, the writer of Mahabharata epic, everything. On this day, Indians all over the world, they celebrate it as Guru Purnima giving total obeyance and respects to, reverence … Read more
Recorded on 20 July 2024 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji2:00 What is the ego and what role does it play?2:45 Why does every soul have that ego?4:43 How can we understand the ego in its right sense?6:63 How important is it for us to understand the ego and to be able to overcome … Read more
Shri Babaji recounts, “As a child, I was influenced by Adi Shankara’s philosophical song ‘Bhaja Govindam’ in which, addressing the scholar who was trying to memorize a grammar word called ‘dukrinkaraney’, the great sage tells him, “Sing and remember the Divine, for when death occurs to your physical body in due course of time none … Read more
Recorded on 16th December 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:13 A short description of Krishna’s life9:56 Do we all know that the correct action is for the greater good instinctively or do we need training to know that?11:17 The thing that stops us following that greater good is simply ego?11:45 What Swamiji said of Krishna17:50 … Read more
Recorded on 3 August 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji1:11 Why is it important for the mind to rise above the dualities of the world and not get involved?5:25 Is it through meditation that we can rise above these dualities?7:07 So in daily life when a difficult situation comes we don’t judge it … Read more
Recorded on 7 June 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:06 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 … Read more
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. 0:00 Intro0:06 Why, on the days that I feel bad about myself, the meditation is better, but when I feel good about myself, the meditation is worse?1:09 When we … Read more
Recorded on 31 August 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:06 The real vairagya is of the mind.3:43 How can we achieve genuine vairagya in the world?7:40 How can we reach that variagya, is it destiny?11:08 What are the signs that we are progressing with vairagya?13:26 How important is it to achieve vairagya while in the … Read more
Shri Babaji narrates the famous Katha Upanishad which describes beautifully the importance of honesty, sincerity, discrimination of the truth, and attention to the Master. Nachiketa was an eight-year-old boy. His father was a great scholar and knower of the truth through the scriptures. Birth and death; he taught to his students, spoke of that every … Read more
In this video Shri Babaji chants the 108 names of His Guru, Shri Shivabalayogi – a wonderful recording, composed by Babaji Himself, illustrated with images and video clips of Babaji and Swamiji. From the album ‘Guru Parampara’ available hereMusic recorded with Shri Babaji is also available to listen to on Spotify
Recorded on 21 December 2024 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:06 What does Babaji mean by the term devotion?2:30 What part does faith play in devotion?4:15 What was Babaji taught about devotion by His mother?5:39 How did devotion evolve and increase in Babaji’s life?6:41 Are rituals in the various religions around the world useful?8:20 Could Babaji … Read more
Recorded on 18 April 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:07 Why is it so difficult to see our own faults and put in efforts to change ourselves?6:07 If we don’t see change in our character even though we are practicing sadhana – why is this?22:15 Does spiritual yearning come to all of us eventually?27:02 How … Read more
Recorded on 29 March 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:07 What is the droplet and what is the ocean?2:47 Everything that we think we are as an individual does not actually exist?3:57 Would it have been a very long journey to reach the situation we are in now where it’s difficult to think in any … Read more
Recorded on 3 May 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction0:38 “All hopes of man are consistently destroyed by time.” If time is unreal, how can something unreal be indestructible?7:26 What is the relation between silence and time?9:53 Are time and space different aspects of the same thing?11:52 Has a Yogi overcome the effects of time?14:17 … Read more
Recorded on 10 April 2025 with Malaysian participants. 0:00 Intro0:06 Viveka Choodamani – Chapter 13 – The impermanence of the physical body, verses 72 & 731:34 How in the first place did the misidentification of consciousness identifying as the body and mind happen?3:15 Do we also need to detach ourselves from people in our lives … Read more
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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
