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Efforts and Acceptance | In Quest of Truth – online Q&A, No.192

Recorded on 27 July 2024 with worldwide participants

0:00 Introduction from Babaji
3:05 Can Babaji elaborate on the idea of acceptance?
8:59 If the results don’t come from our efforts, do we just give up?
11:23 After facing repeated failures, when to know when to persist or to give up and accept the results?
12:32 When we accept the results, is there a danger that we weaken our efforts?
15:33 Can Babaji talk about the importance of focus when putting in efforts?
19:14 Does our focus when putting in efforts become sadhana?
22:02 Can this focus also generate a peace?
23:08 How can Grace be related to our efforts?
30:20 How Babaji applied efforts and acceptance in His years as a student monk with Swamiji.
41:19 If you lose a million dollars how is it possible to quietly accept this?
43:00 If we always choose good karma then do we always get good results?
48:26 If you are putting in efforts should it be put in with discrimination, or can Yogis follow their desires mindlessly?
51:28 For every action is there a reaction?
52:10 For grace is faith, dedication and determination required?
52:48 Are there alternative options to sitting for Tapas to achieve Self Realization?
54:18 How to make heartful effort with full focus without thinking about results at all?
1:00:23 Advice for someone suffering from depression
1:02:29 Can one reach Self Realization by practicing 1 hour meditation daily?
1:04:13 Mind slipping into thoughts continuously throughout meditation
1:08:43 Position of the eyeballs in meditation
1:10:04 Position of the head in meditation
1:10:54 For a failed marriage or critical illness for example how can one accept such things?
1:15:51 My mind is judgemental, how to be more accepting of what happens?

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