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 How can one look for the Guru inside one’s heart?
0:57 Is the heart related to the feelings?
1:10 If God, Guru and Self are one, what is the external Guru in a physical body?
2:42 After becoming Self-Realized, do you still have to be watchful of the mind?
3:03 How to discern whether it is my mind that is making me suffer more, or whether it is a test from the Divine?
4:30 When the mind slips in meditation and we get into thinking, then something reminds us that we are supposed to be meditating – what is it that reminds us?
6:10 Does it mean our connection is always there?
6:26 If we have an issue with somebody and it is playing over and over, and my ego is troubling, can it help to look at your photo?
8:07 Some people say meditation is a selfish practice. What is the simplest response to this?
9:26 Is everything we do in life for selfish reasons only?
10:07 Basically we are not living their way, so they start accusing us.
10:48 Is the intention the same for everybody; we all want happiness?
11:53 Why don’t people want to go for the supermarket, is it because they don’t have patience?
12:21 What does Babaji mean by this “once in a life-cycle opportunity”?
18:29 How to avoid falling into impatience and maintain a seriousness when it is so difficult to achieve Self-Realization in this short time-frame we have?
23:20 What does Babaji mean by ‘falling in love’ as people might mistake that for what is experienced in relationships.
24:48 What is the difference between love and faith?
25:17 Does love just happen naturally?
26:02 How is one attracted to the Guru?
26:41 Could Babaji talk about what Swamiji meant by “God and Guru are your only true friends”.
27:14 Is true unconditional love the same as Self-Realization or is Self-Realization beyond that?
27:39 What happens Babaji encounters another Self-Realized being?
27:55 You wouldn’t see the lineage of that being?
29:17 Has Babaji been to the Kumbha Mela?
29:54 How does wisdom come when Self-Realization is achieved?
30:38 How was Swamiji so intelligent and knowledgeable about the world, without having attended school?
31:31 Do you need a Self-Realized Master to get Realised, or can you achieve it with your faith and meditation?
32:44 What was Babaji’s last experience of the duality before Self-Realization?
33:31 So an experience of the Eternal Self happens before the Divinity appears?
34:09 Does one need special blessings from different Gurus in your spiritual lineage?
35:42 So in terms of how a lineage functions, is it just the Guru that is closest to you rather than someone who is far back, communicating to you?
38:13 How not to confuse belief with faith?
38:50 Babaji has said that whatever you visualise, you will see that, for instance in Babaji’s Tapas He was taken to other worlds. What is the essence of this?
40:47 The poet Kabir Das needed a Guru, that shows that we all need a Guru.
41:26 It was completely dark with black out curtains in the room where Babaji did Tapas. Was this for the whole 5 years or was it adopted later on?
42:02 Swamiji did His Tapas out in the open with the sun and everything?
42:25 For Swamiji it was also very difficult in the sunlight?