Zen Grisdale
We are very happy to announce that applications for the next Meditation Retreat with Shri Babaji are now open. This is a rare and precious opportunity to retreat from your everyday routine, immerse yourself in an environment dedicated to spiritual growth, and practice meditation under the guidance of a Self-Realized Yogi who has achieved the … Read more
Shri Babaji’s eldest brother, Vijay Uncle, shows us family photographs, including one from when Shri Babaji was only six months old and a very old antique photo of their mother’s mother that is around 110 years old. The photos are displayed at the Shankara Sharada community hall at the Devarayasamudram Ashram.
Recorded on 5 April 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:06 The mind has come out of the Self6:10 Is the mind and the Self the same substance?12:06 The unique relationship between brain and mind21:45 The brain needs more than blood and electrical impulses to function26:10 Does the mind also need a brain to exist as … Read more
Recorded on 15 March 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:14 Why does Babaji recommend that we put in efforts to become quiet in the mind?5:55 Is the concentration of the mind the same as the quietening of the mind?7:40 Why has it become so difficult for the mind to be quiet?10:11 Do we need to … Read more
Recorded on 1st February 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:07 What is the difference between judgements and discrimination?2:14 Is discrimination always for a larger cause and judgements are made for narrow-minded personal choices?8:32 How can a common person discriminate properly without making judgements and impressions in the mind?17:19 How not to be judgemental to ourself … Read more
From Devarayasamudram Ashram, South India, 26th February 2025
Recorded on 22 February 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro0:18 1st instruction: to sit comfortably and keep the back and neck straight1:10 2nd instruction: to close the eyes2:44 Focusing the eyes and sight in between the eyebrows6:02 When we are watching in meditation, is it the same as watching an object with eyes open?8:52 Difference … Read more
Recorded at the Shri Shivabalayogi Ashram, Devarayasamudram, 2025.
Taken from India Meditation Retreat 2024: Day 3, Morning Q&A with Babaji here
Taken from the album ‘Yoga Shradhanjali’ Music recorded with Shri Babaji is also available to listen on Spotify
Recorded on 20 March 2025 with Malaysian participants 0:00 Intro0:07 Viveka Choodamani, chapter 12, Essence of Direct Experience1:54 Everybody talks of peace but nobody wants to work for peace, why is this?6:15 What is holding back spiritual aspirants from finding a Self Realised master?13:20 Why are some seekers attracted to fake masters?17:49 Viveka Choodamani, chapter … Read more
Recorded on 22 March 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:18 The restless mind is unable to find happiness in the world3:02 The cravings of the mind lead to unhappiness10:21 How important is it for parents and schools to teach spirituality from a young age16:08 Why do we seek wealth and power when we know those … Read more
From Devarayasamudram Ashram, South India, 26th February 2025
Recorded on 8 March 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:06 What does Babaji means when He speaks about devotion and devotional practices?1:20 How did devotion manifest in Babaji’s early life?4:10 Some aspirants feel that devotion is an inferior path to meditation – how would Babaji reply to this suggestion?16:24 Babaji narrates an event with Swamiji … 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 Intro0:07 Was it a shock when Babaji opened His eyes, on completing Tapas, to witness the world as an illusion?2:54 I thought it would be similar to when … Read more
Recorded on 19 October 2024 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro0:07 What is the right path to take in life?2:30 Why is it that many people seem to chose the wrong path in life?5:49 Is it necessary to have the intelligence to realise we have to go for the permanent truth, the permanent happiness?11:11 What is … Read more
Between February 3rd to the 14th a memorable Meditation retreat took place at the beautiful Shivabalayogi Ashram in Devarayasamudram, South India. There was an increase from twenty participants last year to forty participants this time, who gathered from countries all over the world; India, US, Australia, Hungary, Russia, Norway, Spain, Romania, Brazil, UK, Greece, France, … 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
