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 Intro
0:07 Will the lost Upanishads ever be revealed again by a Saint or Self Realised Yogi?
2:57 What is the difference between the Upanishads and the Vedas?
4:20 Do all the great Masters’ teachings merge and agree in the end?
5:48 No matter where the teachings are from, has there always been a technology taught to train the mind to be quiet?
8:53 Could the Yoga Vasistha be considered an Upanishad?
12:28 Is there any mention in the Vedas or the Upanishads about other forms of life or other worlds?
13:27 Why does the space have the ability to imagine in the first place?
15:01 So the creation will always exist?
15:58 Babaji also says that nothing really exists.
16:19 Yoga Vasistha also said towards the end that whatever I have said is also nothing.
18:49 So it’s only because I think there is a problem then there is a problem?
19:46 What is the value of the notion of birth and death and reincarnation?
21:07 Is the notion of birth, death and reincarnation a motivation to go back to the Self?
21:30 For renunciation, if you will it to happen then is it counter to achieving it?
27:18 How does a Yogi come back to the world after Self Realization?
29:51 How does the progression to slowly come back to the world happen?
30:19 What does one do when previous agitations come up in meditation?
32:42 Is that what is vairagya?
33:02 Should we bother about everything that happens in the world?
34:56 While being detached, you can be aware of what’s happening but don’t get involved in it?
43:29 What is the origin of the expression, ‘cry when people cry, laugh when people laugh
but stay on the banks of the river’?
44:19 Is it important just to be a good person?
45:01 Aren’t animals and plants better births than human beings?
46:28 If we depend on artificial intelligence, is there a danger we will lose our natural intelligence?
47:31 How young can children be to start meditation?
