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 What determines the quality of our meditation? Is it the Self that determines this?
1:23 How did Babaji know when to change direction during Tapas?
2:59 What is the significance of sitting in different directions during Tapas?
4:33 During meditation how do we know we are watching the thoughts and imprints and not re-engaging with them?
5:10 Is emotional engagement different from mental engagement?
5:43 Is it ok to tell ourselves to focus during meditation when the attention drifts?
6:56 Could Babaji talk about the mantra Babaji chants during the morning Abhishekam?
8:00 Could Babaji give a brief history of the Sage Markandeya?
9:37 Could Babaji talk about the time when Babaji went to the Markandeya cave in Mysore to sit for meditation?
10:56 When someone goes into Tapas is there a desire to do Tapas or does it happen automatically?
11:17 Could Babaji tell the story of Kanakadasa, the cowherd boy?
17:00 How did Babaji know as a young boy that vairagya would be so important with the Guru you would seek to find?
19:35 What is it about ‘watching’ that allows you to purify the mind?
21:37 Did Swamiji know when it was time to give up the body?
22:25 Is it true that there remains a special power that remains with the Yogi’s body after it is dropped?
24:09 So when we go to a spiritual place and feel a supercharged atmosphere, is that due to our faith?
25:08 Why does it happen that we have a spiritual experience when there is no pre-existing faith?
29:41 How much desire for Self Realisation is necessary?
34:14 How can one be focused on a task and also have detachment?
35:30 If our attention is on the task in the present, how can that become attention on the Divine?
37:45 People are expected to multitask when working at companies, how can one manage this?
38:34 Can Karma Yoga be like Bhakti Yoga?
39:59 Could Babaji explain how, when you remember the Divine, all your sins will be washed away
41:15 So if your mind is agitated, by thinking of the Divinity, that can all disappear?
41:52 Does that become a practice?
42:07 Does gratitude increase the ability to connect with the Divinity?