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
0:11 Why do they say that the name (ie of Rama) is the same as god?
11:22 How do the vibrations from the Divine benefit the devotee according to their faith if the vibrations don’t have any resolution attached to it?
13:33 Did Rama take a resolution to cut the head of the king?
14:22 So when Rama went to cut the head of the king, his mind was completely silent?
16:53 In the Guru Disciple relationship is it a necessary component to for the disciple to receive scoldings from the Guru?
26:17 Is it because of our prarabdha karma that the mind doesn’t become quiet?
29:42 Could Babaji tell the story of how Valmiki went through a transformation and ultimately wrote the Ramayana?
33:53 In the lifetime of Kaikeyi why did the wrong things she did against Rama not get carried forward to her next birth?
35:19 Is Yoga Nidra indicative of a laziness in the mind, a tamasic nature?
37:46 Is it like achieving Nirvana?
40:23 I meet many western Buddhists who don’t like Hinduism and think it is inferior. What can I say to them?
45:08 Ramana Maharshi talked of dissolving the personal ‘I’ so that we merge with the infinite. Is it the personal ‘I’ only that makes us think ‘this is my body, my house, my relations’ etc?
46:46 The personal ‘I’ is unaware it has imagined Itself as an ‘I ‘inside the Self?
47:07 If the personal ‘I’ is not real then all actions are happening automatically?
47:23 So Babaji is it also true that whatever you do has been destined and you are not in control of the situation?
48:11 I feel like the ‘I’ is very connected to the body, that it is very hard to detach from it.
48:54 So the brain’s refections keep going after Tapas, but a Yogi is not involved in them?
49:52 What is the difference between before Tapas and after Tapas in terms of the brain’s reflections?
51:08 In the story you told of Rama battling against Hanuman using Rama’s name , did it happen according to Hanuman’s prarabdha karma?
52:17 Is Lord Rama still under the influence of prarabdha karma?
53:11 If Rama was the Divine, was it still right on his part to leave his wife Sita in that way?
54:29 Was it Rama’s prarabdha to send Sita to the forest?
