Recorded on 15 March 2026 with US participants
The text explains that a yogi is established in pure consciousness, free from identification with the mind, body, and personal identity. Unlike ordinary people whose minds are absorbed in imaginations and desires, a yogi remains as a detached witness, unaffected by pleasure, pain, praise, or criticism. Though bodily experiences continue, mental suffering and reactions cease due to the absence of desire and ego.
Through meditation and sustained inner silence, the mind dissolves into the Self, where true knowledge is revealed automatically. In this state, all dualities—such as good and evil, gain and loss, life and death—lose significance. The yogi sees the same Self everywhere and acts in the world without attachment or a sense of doership.
Ultimately, when all thoughts and imaginations end, the yogi abides in an indescribable state of Supreme Peace, contentment, and freedom, beyond fear, desire, and mental disturbance.
0:00 Intro
1:11 How does a Yogi view the world or life?
6:30 Does a Yogi no longer see himself as a person?
7:03 Does a Yogi see himself as the witness, as just the consciousness?
7:36 How do you jump across the abyss between the changing world and desires, to the desireless, changeless reality?
10:23 Verse 13. “A Yogi is free from attachment to all objects and actions.”
13:56 “Once liberation is achieved, a need for anything else never occurs.”
17:58 When the mind becomes completely silent, it shines forth with this true knowledge. It wasn’t learned from books.
22:35 Is there a point when the mind becomes silent, where true knowledge just appears, or comes to you?
23:51 And does all ignorance, and false belief, just vanish at that time?
24:38 If you quiet your mind and you lose all desire and there’s nothing to achieve in the world, what allows the body to move, to function and perform action?
26:49 Why does knowing the Self bring Supreme Peace and perfect contentment to the mind?
28:43 Verse 15. “A Yogi always sees the Self everywhere.”
31:03 The Yogi identifies with being pure consciousness. How does he see the world?
32:08 Verse 16. From the standpoint of just being a person, it sounds pretty callous, but from the standpoint of a Yogi, everything seems all proper.
33:34 It seems that you still have thoughts, ideas and imaginations?
35:30 Do Yogis daydream?
36:33 Dreams can come up because the brain generates those?
37:28 Verse 17. A Yogi’s consciousness is always detached.
40:15 Could you elaborate on the consciousness of existence, what that is and how it merges into the Self?
41:42 The abyss between the changing world and non-changing existence.
44:09 A Yogi does not perform activities, though it might appear that they act.
47:08 Verse 20. For a Yogi, no depression or dullness would ever occur.
49:23 The state of a Yogi and a guru, are these two terms synonymous? Like, is every Yogi a guru?
50:38 Is the importance of a guru always in the faith of the disciple?
51:29 If Babaji suggests something to a disciple, is that because the disciple was looking for that suggestion?
52:09 If a Yogi does not have compassion, why do Yogis bless people?
53:13 For a householder, if they reach samadhi and there is no motivation left, how would they care for their family?
55:00 Is it true that some Yogis take the body with them when they pass?
55:44 Does black magic exist?
