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Mind’s detachment, the real vairagya – Q&A, No.227

Recorded on 31 August 2024 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 The real vairagya is of the mind.
3:43 How can we achieve genuine vairagya in the world?
7:40 How can we reach that variagya, is it destiny?
11:08 What are the signs that we are progressing with vairagya?
13:26 How important is it to achieve vairagya while in the world?
17:01 How does vairagya create attachment to the Guru?
20:55 Why does vairagya not affect attachment to the Guru?
24:08 Why Swamiji trained to remove the attachment towards the Guru’s physical form.
29:21 What is the connection between faith and vairagya?
30:51 Is the final vairagya achieved at Self Realization?
31:41 When this final vairagya is achieved, how does a person function in the world?
33:33 What is the relationship between vairagya and the doership?
34:55 How does the mind of a Yogi behave in the world?
39:24 Yogi’s teach through their daily lives.
44:07 Whom should I take as a Guru, Swamiji or Babaji?
45:15 What is the significance of watching in between eyebrows?
45:49 As you gain vairagya do you become more of a witness?
46:50 When we experience physical or mental illness, how is it possible to cultivate vairagya in those situations?
48:06 Vairagya through contemplation versus directly through tapas.
51:32 Watching in meditation is like staring at a wall, is there something I should see?
54:21 How to practice vairagya in dealing with pain?
55:28 With vairagya, how to explain to family members when they notice a change in your behaviour?
57:17 How to respond to family members who think salvation is to be found only through Jesus.
1:01:44 How to give up attachments and to see that it is the Divine that both gives and takes.
1:03:11 Can the desire to earn money be an obstacle on the spiritual path?
1:05:25 Should you sit in any particular direction in meditation?
1:06:21 Can we only lose ego by doing seva?
1:08:09 As Babaji cultivated vairagya did Babaji lose interest in art, books and movies etc?

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