Recorded on 4 May 2025 with worldwide participants
0:00 Intro
0:24 What is the nature of quietude?
4:35 With meditation, by just watching, it brings the mind to silence and everything disappears, and only the Self that you are remains?
9:03 Does a Yogi have thoughts?
12:30 Chapter 10, Verses 1 and 2 “Give up desire, wealth, even the scripturally commanded good works…”
14:20 Not to hold onto things in the mind
14:50 Meditation, the tool that can turn off the mind
15:09 Chapter 10, Verse 3 – “Wherever here is desire, there is the world.”
15:29 Chapter 10, Verse 4 – “Bondage is made from desire alone, the destruction of desire is liberation.”
17:35 So is the problem that consciousness, through mistaken identity, imagines itself as the body or the mind, and it gets stuck in that and desires are arising as a result of that bondage?
21:28 Chapter 10, verse 4 – “Only by detachment to the changing world does one attain the unceasing joy of realization of the Self.”
21:45 Even wanting good for other people, you get attached to that too.
22:20 “It’s better if you don’t need anything of this world and do not entertain any desire to obtain such prosperity.”
24:29 Is Babaji advocating indifference?
27:58 “There is no peace ever in obtaining worldly objects.”
34:49 Chapter 10, Verses 5 – 8 “For how many births you have worked hard and painfully with your body, your mind and speech? So today, finally, let it cease.”
38:50 “The Self, as Pure Consciousness, is the real intelligence. It has the power to imagine, which is creativity.”
44:57 “Only those alive, keep remembering the dead and experience emotions of sorrow and misery. Get rid of this imagination and become aware of the Self by coming by becoming quiet in consciousness.”
47:45 “Mental attitude gives rise to more births and deaths.”
52:02 What can we do besides meditation to develop a loving, life supporting attitude towards life, and people?
56:07 “It’s time to stop this process of consciously undergoing births and deaths. Now work one last time to get liberated”
1:00:03 Babaji’s closing words
