India Meditation Retreat 2024: Day 9, Morning Q&A

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
0:06 Why, on the days that I feel bad about myself, the meditation is better, but when I feel good about myself, the meditation is worse?
1:09 When we sit in meditation for longer periods, and we reach the point when we get restless or the body hurts, should we just keep going for the time that we’ve set?
2:36 The only way the appearance of the world can happen is because the Self has been forgotten. How can the Self be forgotten?
5:40 So supreme consciousness and supreme energy is one united mass, no appearance – so that is the whole story?
5:51 So it’s the small ‘I’ that has forgotten the Self, like a droplet that has come out in illusion?
8:01 How can something be in existence and not exist?
12:12 How do we keep our attention on the Self in our daily lives, as King Janaka says?
14:49 Can Babaji talk about Jesus being in India?
17:15 Everything is destroyed by time ultimately – but isn’t time also an illusion?
20:23 When I feel some tension in the body during meditation, should I try to relax again?
23:29 Is it possible in meditation that there are no thoughts for a while and then suddenly visions appear again?
24:21 Babaji has said that between two thoughts there is a gap. Do we have to increase that gap?
25:26 Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras talks about the five kleshas as the root cause of unhappiness, do you agree with that?
26:35 Is there any difference between the state of a Yogi in the body and when in Mahasamadhi?
28:36 When Babaji is in meditation or is closing the eyes, is that more similar to the Mahasamadhi state?
29:20 So when Babaji is closing the eyes it is more introverted than if Babaji is doing something with the body?
29:49 Is there any utility in the teaching that says that you are already enlightened?
30:34 Is it just another illusion, thinking that you are enlightened?
33:17 So if you are really enlightened you would not seek validation?
33:41 If we conceive that enlightenment is close to us, is that better for us in our practice?
35:19 What is like for a Yogi to come back to the world after Realisation?
37:39 Do the Yogi’s vibrations have any benefit to people in their presence?

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