Dedicated to the lotus feet of the divine Guru Shivabalayogi Maharaj

Individual imagined self – Q&A, No. 283

Recorded on 27 June 2026 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:13 Why does Babaji use the wording ‘individual imagined self’?
2:08 Is it the imagined self who thinks, “I want to do this, I want to do that”?
4:34 Has the individual imagined self been imagined by the consciousness?
6:39 The body appears to be here, and I am imagining that I am the body, but in fact it is just an appearance, it is not connected to us?
8:45 So the real Self, who we really are, is not an identity?
9:51 What is happening then we ask Babaji a questions? Is it like the droplet is asking the ocean?
11:14 Do we have to destroy this individual imagined self?
11:39 Why can we not give up the attachments we have in the mind?
13:16 We do not know what the “I” actually is, but why do we still do not want to give it up?
14:47 So the remedy is to become silent in the mind?
16:34 In that state of silence there are no judgements of anything.
17:40 As an individual imagined self, we may be scared to lose anything, but we cannot actually lose anything?
18:51 So at some point this imagination of acquiring something cropped up in the consciousness, and we believed that to be the truth?
27:51 It seems we are so brainwashed from an early age – so we have to give up all of that up?
36:16 Instruction to keep the eyes concentrated between the eyebrows – should that be a soft gaze?
36:41 What to do with the fear of disappearing during meditation?
37:26 Devotional practices.
39:50 Why is it so rare to have dreams of the forms of the Divine?
40:45 What is stopping us to go into the silence?
42:28 Every day we have a new conviction to ‘just watch’, it continues like this.
43:45 I get angry with myself for allowing thoughts to come in meditation. How to overcome this?
45:25 What secrets of the mind were revealed to Babaji in Tapas?
47:08 I it possible to take the spiritual journey that Babaji went through, without being in Ashram life?
50:21 Is it not good to put insects in a safe place away from danger, as if they are killed they will go to heaven?
52:16 If we help homeless people for instance, do we take on their karma?
53:24 How to remain in the awareness in meditation outside the practice?
54:06 Is meditation the only way to come out of the illusion?

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