Recorded on 31st December 2023 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:08 How do we shape a better future for ourself?
1:27 How can we remove or change our latent tendencies?
5:19 Should we focus on our Self rather than the body and mind?
7:33 So how we perceive ourself is important?
8:40 Do all bodies and beings exist in one consciousness?
11:58 The Truth of our Existence revealed when we silence the mind.
15:30 Mind when it is silent it is pure consciousness and when it moves it is mind?
18:12 Knowledge requires a mind but awareness does not?
19:34 The wheel/axle analogy – what is beyond the almost stationary point at the middle of the axle?
24:46 Are awareness and existence the same?
26:26 Is it ok to consider consciousness as a field of all possibilities?
26:45 At every moment we have a chance to be aware of the Self as opposed to the mind and body?
28:33 What is everywhere, we don’t notice.
33:27 Latent tendencies, acquired habits and previous resolutions.
34:54 Do we hold our current situation by holding on to our thoughts?
38:55 Having a silent mind versus changing our thinking when in the world.
43:41 How do we know when we are Self Realised?
45:31 Do we have to keep our mind quiet at the time of death?
47:59 What is the true meaning of dharma? Is it a part of Brahman or is it an imagination?
51:29 During the five year Tapas, was it the higher consciousness that prompted Babaji to be brought out of samadhi?
53:22 Is the state of enlightenment permanent or does it have to be worked on all the time?
58:20 Are there samskaras that continue to come up fro the past that we need to deal with consciously?
1:02:33 Our final experiences are not happy ones, with the body failing, in pain.
1:05:00 What causes the realisation that the world is not going to give what we are really seeking?
1:08:17 How to work with Swamiji’s image?