Recorded on 10 August 2025 with US participants
0:00 Intro
0:55 Chapter 15, verse one, “A student whose mind is pure and calm learns easily..”
2:09 Chapter 15, verse one – Babaji’s comments
3:44 What is a corrupted mind and what causes the mind to be corrupted?
5:22 How can you uncorrupt the mind and pay attention?
6:10 So you need a sincere desire to learn, to know?
6:55 “Non attachment to the illusory objects gives liberation. Attraction to the illusory objects leads to bondage.”
8:32 Chapter 15, verse two – Babaji’s comments
11:19 Verse two speaks of gaining liberation, through non attachment to illusory objects. What is liberation in this context?
12:19 The knowledge in these ancient texts help us to understand the need for sadhana – what else can we do to inspire ourselves to do sadhana?
14:06 What does sadhana mean?
15:05 Verse three and Babaji’s comments. “Knowledge of this Truth turns one who is eloquent, wise and active, into one who is mute, inert and docile..”
18:50 You have confidence when you realize that happiness is within yourself and you have access to it.
19:24 What is the spiritual path?
21:53 Nothing in the mind can bring satisfaction or lasting peace.
22:33 Verse four. “You are not the physical body, or the doer, or the enjoyer. You’re actually pure consciousness, ever the witness, free. Now go about, happy.”
27:42 What happens when the body dies?
28:53 Verse five. “Liking or disliking the illusory objects of the world occurs only in the mind, not the True Self.”
31:55 What happens to the mind after Self-Realization?
32:49 Do thoughts no longer arise in a Self Realized person’s mind?
35:27 Verse six and seven. It is the Self which is in all objects, and all objects are in the Self. Nothing is a different entity from the Self.
40:26 Verse eight. “Have faith, my dear child, have faith. Don’t be confused in the slightest in this. You are Knowledge itself, Lord of everything, the Pure Self, beyond the illusory universe.”
43:20 Whenever we try to be quiet and work, the thoughts comes up. How to overcome this continuous struggle of again, going back into the mind?
44:29 Does it take time to establish oneself in the Self, so that you don’t go back into the mind and get pulled down?
45:45 So you never use the mind for ordinary transactions, unnecessary transactions?
46:19 Does it have to do only with the imaginations, or do we also not interfere with other people, and we mind our own business and stay to ourselves?
46:48 Do Self Realized people always stay quiet without interfering with anybody?
47:26 We all have our own perspective of the universe because of the body. When Self Realized, is this perspective somewhat lost, seeing not only the body as the Self, but also the universe.
48:37 Gurudev, if the last thought is that of our guru, is it the same as no thought, or is this truly the boost I need in the next life to attain your lotus feet?
49:16 What I notice after the mantra and also after the meditation, is that I get a sensation, and when the sensation happens, I have the thought and the thoughts become so less.
50:26 In Nirvikalpa Samadhi, when the “I” disappears, does not consciousness of existence also disappear?
50:50 How we can overcome our samskaras, to have more utilization of the body itself?
52:32 Verse nine. “The physical body — composed as it is of the natural elements — comes, stays for a while, and then goes. The True Self neither comes nor goes. Why then mourn over the body?”
57:00 Verses 10 and 11. “Let the body last until the end of the universe, or let it end today—in either case there is no gain or loss for You, the Self which is Pure Consciousness.”
1:00:25 Even if it is an imagination of something good, then you fear losing it.
1:01:08 How important is it to talk to other members of the house who are addicted to their screens?
1:02:26 What happens to memory after Self-Realization?
1:03:52 Baba with the death of the body and the brain, those memories all go?
1:05:48 Is the fundamental character or qualities of the person or soul carried on to another birth?
