Recorded on 15 September 2024 with US participants
Babaji discusses the importance of faith, devotion, and attention in Self-Realization. He emphasizes that Self-Realization is not a gift but a result of following the master’s teachings with seriousness and reverence. Babaji explains that Self-Realization involves understanding the supreme consciousness and becoming quiet, which leads to the Realization of the Self. He clarifies that Self-Realization and God Realization are the same, as they both involve merging the individual self with the ultimate truth. Participants ask about meditation techniques, the nature of temporary and permanent existence, and the role of witness consciousness in handling prarabdha karma. Babaji advises patience and consistent practice in meditation, and he stresses the importance of not getting carried away by external events or identities.
0:00 Intro
0:08 Introduction to the Ashtavakra Samhita
0:43 Chapter 2, verse 1 – How do faith and devotion, attention and listening to Truth benefit us as well as meditation for silencing the mind to achieve Self Realization?
11:11 “Though all the universe is within me, nothing is really mine as the real Self.”
17:02 Verse 3: “My consciousness has given up the universe as mine and the body as me, my total attention is on the awareness of existence which is the supreme consciousness and peace.”
24:26 The grace comes spontaneously if you have faith.
26:02 What you think, it manifests.
27:28 “The objects of the mind are not different from the mind, this universe is not different from the Self.”
30:09 Consciousness is the Truth and as that expands the universe expands?
30:44 Verse 5: “On examination a cloth is found to be only thread, in the same way, on close examination the universe is nothing but the Self.”
34:43 Babaji’s commentary on verse 5.
37:55 How does a Self Realised person see the world?
42:10 A Yogi doesn’t get carried away, does not lose the conscious awareness of the Self.
43:29 Can we endure the prarabdha karmas through daily practice Jangama Dhyana?
45:52 The temporary nature of the universe, appearance value vs existence value.
49:03 Is space ultimately also just a concept?
50:00 Force is required to bring eyes and mind in between eyebrows in meditation.
51:57 How personalities start and change.
53:03 Babaji quote ‘Everyday when you get to face tests and life, only then your worthiness is proven.’
54:43 What is the difference between Self Realization and enlightenment?
55:38 Where can one find the story of Ashtavakra and Shiva as the villager with the country made alcohol.
56:46 Instructions come up in the mind in meditation like a mantra.
57:49 In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna asks Arjuna to surrender on the battlefield, does this mean silencing the mind?
59:32 Can meditation be concentrating on a feeling of the Self and trying to stay there? And to think of that feeling ourself meditation, reminding oneself that you are that Divine?
1:00:52 Meditation technique is a balance of focusing with will power but also relaxing and surrendering?
1:01:42 Difference between Self Realization and God Realization?
1:02:21 Experiencing deities in meditation.
1:04:48 A verse from one of the upanishads.
1:07:25 A sensation which flows form the centre of my forehead to the centre of my head like something is being released? Is this good or am I overthinking?
