Detachment - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 - Q&A, No. 242

Recorded on 13 April 2025 with US participants

0:00 Intro
0:06 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.1-4
1:36 ‘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 world
9:40 How Babaji seems detached and the most caring also.
10:25 So the important thing to remind yourself if that the body, mind and world are impermanent?
12:32 Babaji’s comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4
13:43 What causes the consciousness of existence to lose awareness of itself?
17:09 How to we develop detachment, let go of things and not get carried away emotionally?
20:50 The consciousness is never suffering, it’s not involved in the activity.
22:51 Babaji’s comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4
25:32 Does a Yogi have happiness or unhappiness, or is he just in a state of peace?
27:58 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.5-8
29:38 “Once one knows the varying transformation of the elements to be nothing but the elements themselves.”
32:58 Mental impressions, mind, consciousness, a brain gets involved and mental impressions are created.
33:54 How can we have a better attitude? Be like a honeybee and not a fly?
35:29 Babaji’s comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8
36:48 How a Yogi is “totally indifferent to the world in consciousness”
39:27 Babaji’s comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8
41:40 Mental suffering from worry about loved ones
45:00 How do we protect ourselves from other people’s negativity?
46:50 When I wake up in the morning, there is a lowness of energy and a kind of a sadness. What happens to the mind that causes this?
48:34 Lately I have this feeling that there are less and less differences between people, things, and whatnot. That on some level, they’re really all the same. Is this so?
50:13 How to avoid suffering due to loved ones.
52:29 How to pray to god?
53:28 I am not in close physical proximity to a Guru – how to get Diksha, initiation from a Master?
56:10 Just like in a dream, is it true that all the people and characters we witness are actually the same I-Self emanating from the body consciousness?