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Myths, Miracles and Meditation – Q&A, No. 248

Recorded on 18 October 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:20 There are so many myths about the powers that one can get through meditation. What powers can one get through meditation?
7:02 How can one be more successful in life when one meditates?
10:00 Is it possible for a Guru who has done a lot of meditation to resolve people’s problems?
15:52 Superstitious beliefs of doing rituals or fasting on particular days.
24:18 Can one know the future?
26:27 What is the soul and can one’s soul be read?
32:00 Is the soul and consciousness the same?
35:00 Some people who meditate claim they can heal people in the name of spirituality.
38:09 Meditation heals your mind and prepares you for everyday challenges in life.
38:58 Does Babaji have the power to produce something from thin air?
40:29 Through meditation one is protected from external influences that might harm one emotionally or physically, god intervenes at the last moment – does this happen all the time, or is it in the imagination?
41:46 I see blankness when meditating, am I doing it correctly?
43:05 What if our body moves forwards and backwards in meditation?
43:50 In day to day life, how to settle the mind – and what are the things that unsettle you from the Self?
45:30 When a blissful, joyful feeling in meditation comes, should we try to dissolve that feeling?
46:16 What is Dharma?
49:00 What does Babaji as a Yogi advise as the right path?
50:05 If the mind gets cleared, is whatever path one choses the right choice?
51:01 How to encourage open and honest communication with people?
52:26 What if the siddhi comes, unasked for?
54:25 Why is there more emphasis on ‘neti, neti’ (not this, not that) rather than all this, all that?
56:24 When I question my existence, I can’t find it.
57:34 How to remain unaffected by people who live in the same household?

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