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The mind, consciousness and meditation – Q&A, No.228

Recorded on 7 June 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 How is our mind a clue to who we really are?
5:19 Only through the mind you can catch your existence.
6:46 If your attention is away from the thoughts, is it automatically onto the Self?
7:52 By avoiding the thoughts, they cannot exist?
9:54 If you stop the mind you don’t disappear, so the thoughts and imaginations are not who we are at all?
12:42 We need to go introverted.
15:04 Babaji has said that a small portion of the Self has come out and got involved in the brain – how has this happened?
23:30 The importance of keeping the attention focused continuously.
26:40 We make simple things complicated.
29:35 Efforts are needed to make the mind quiet, only then people can see the benefit of a peaceful mind?
32:45 How can we gain knowledge without creating mental constructs and reinforce the ego?
37:07 If this is all imagination, what is our body? Is everything in this world an imagination?
39:09 Does god decide who is a bad person?
40:28 What is the importance of darshan?
41:19 How can thoughts stay for so long if they are impermanent in nature?
45:06 How to get to a deeper place of practice?
47:46 Does going into longer meditations happen automatically in a gentle approach?
48:30 Does meditation make a person less intellectual, less joyous, more serious and socially withdrawn?
49:45 Why are most people unable to achieve what Babaji has acheived?
51:09 Babaji has to guide us to achieve Self Realization.

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