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
0:12 Did Adi Shankara come to revive the Hindu faith?
2:39 Babaji is asked about a passage in the Yoga Vasistha
5:41 Different teachers advocate the practice of counting breathes as a form of dhyana. Are they trying to accomplish a steady breath?
7:40 What is the significance of the snake in Hinduism?
9:09 I feel a sudden jerk sometimes in meditation, like an electric shock, why does that happen?
9:58 Did Babaji have strong experiences in meditation and was samadhi achieved prior to doing Tapas?
10:55 Did Babaji have much time to meditate when Swamiji was there at the Dehradun Ashram?
11:22 Aside from the sense of peace what were the signs that you were practising the meditation correctly?
12:17 What is the importance of service to the Guru and how can it help?
15:31 Could Baba talk of when in Swamiji’s time people would go into bhava Samadhi and Babaji had to intervene?
30:13 Did Ramakrishna Paramahansa used to go into genuine bhava samadhi?
30:41 What does it mean to go into Krishna consciousness and why is it taught?
35:13 What books would Babaji recommend to people from the West?
35:55 For learning Advaita would Babaji recommended Bhagavad Gita, Tattva Loka and Brahma Sutras?
37:16 Because it’s very hard for people of this modern age to meditate, so they say that all you need to do is take the name of Krishna and you will achieve the peace.
38:28 Babaji always had Gnan, Bhakti – could Babaji have been Self-Realized before Tapas?
47:16 Is it destiny which determines when someone will go into Tapas?
50:01 Would Tapas look the same for each person or would it be different?
50:45 Ramakrishna Paramahansa did a variety of practices, did that all count as Tapas?
51:19 Can Babaji talk about some experiences that happened to Babaji during Tapas?
51:52 Where is the balance between serving others and practicing meditation to achieve Self Realization. For instance Mother Teresa wouldn’t have been able to help others if she was mostly in meditation.
