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“The Universe in a hair” from the Yoga Vasishtha – Q&A, No. 253

Recorded on 22 November 2025 with worldwide participants.

0:00 Intro
0:38 “Universe in a hair” – Universe is how you perceive it.
3:51 Is there a separation in consciousness to make an individual consciousness?
8:06 So is the world a projection of the mind?
9:28 Is the mind a separation from the higher consciousness?
11:13 Is it possible to experience the undivided space with the mind?
13:43 Is it possible to live in the world but at the same time being unaffected by the duality of the world?
14:16 How can one be in the world, unaffected by the world?
17:32 Does it help to be indifferent to the world in order to be detached?
23:18 If you pray to someone else then you become separate from that entity.
24:19 What should we have faith in?
25:33 So there is only one consciousness of existence?
26:22 It is there all the time in the purest conscious form?
26:22 Is that pure consciousness, god?
27:34 Why did the droplet separate from the ocean of consciousness?
31:10 So the universe expands according to my mind’s capacity?
35:09 If the individual ‘I’ is removed, the universe also disappears?
38:25 ‘The salt doll, wanting to know the depth of the ocean, jumped into the ocean and become one with it.”
39:22 ‘Watching’ in Jangama Dhyana.
42:10 Out of body near death experiences or seemingly spiritual experiences due to psychedelic drugs.
46:17 What is the relationship between our mind and the pure consciousness?
47:59 What about physical space and time, how does that relate to consciousness and our perceptions?
49:48 Does time and space exist?
50:31 The doubt arising of why do I bother to do things in life if they don’t matter?
54:08 Who’s consciousness is expanding when the universe expands?
54:52 When we see someone else suffering is it necessary to show our compassion to them?
56:15 How to be that sakshi, a witness to this world?
57:15 How does a Yogi dream but still be a witness to it?
58:00 So a Yogi never sleeps?
58:25 The ‘watching’ in meditation.
59:41 Can we use the breath in meditation?
1:00:23 When we use the breath in meditation, should we keep the breath between the eyebrows?
1:00:52 Is it our perception whether time and space is a prison or a portal?
1:01:54 Are all positive characteristics the same in a greater sense?
1:02:57 And are all negative characteristics also the same thing?
1:04:09 Is it necessary that devotees wear white and also chant a specific mantra?
1:05:25 In all techniques of meditation do we observe the sensations in different places?
1:07:10 Once we reach a higher level are all meditation techniques the same?

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