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Tranquility – Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.14 – Q&A, No. 246

Recorded on 27 July 2025 with US participants

0:00 Intro
0:48 Chapter 14, verse 1
1:22 “The mind being fully settled in the Self” – what do you mean by the mind?
4:22 For a Self Realized person, do thoughts arise in the mind?
6:21 So thoughts arise as needed and then spontaneously settle down?
6:50 It seems that the nature of the mind is to have thoughts, but you’ve also said the nature of the mind is to be silent.
8:15 What makes creation start? What makes thoughts arise?
8:39 So could you say that creation in the mind is a second nature of the mind?
10:19 Once Self Realization has happened, will nothing make the mind go back to the world?
10:46 What is it about the unrealized person that keeps us involved in the Maya, unable to see the truth of our own Self?
11:30 The difference between an intention and desire is you want something to happen, but you have no attachment to it?
12:35 Babaji comments on the term in science, ‘singularity’
15:56 For the Self Realized person, what happens to karma? Is there still karma for the body?
18:08 What is it that makes consciousness become mind?
18:42 Chapter 14, verse 1 – the indifference of a Yogi to the world.
20:24 Chapter 14, verse 2 – What keeps a Self Realized person functioning, if there is no attachment to the world?
23:10 For the Self Realized person the wisdom comes spontaneously. It’s not book learning.
24:16 So the scriptures and knowledge are really unnecessary?
25:15 What books would Babji recommend people to read for inspiration, besides the Ashtavakra Gita?
26:04 Chapter 14, verse 3 – Is a Self-Realized person just a silent witness to everything that’s happening?
27:48 Chapter 14, verse 4 – the Self Realized person can be involved in thought, but never loses awareness that He’s infinite, eternal, unbounded?
29:42 “For the Self Realized one, the mind will be infinite like space.”
33:16 Seeing everything as divine, every atom.
33:58 “knowledge is self experience”
35:55 Consciousness has potential to express itself in some type of creation or imagination – when that’s there, you call it mind, when it’s not there you call it consciousness?
37:55 Science will never fully prove the Self because the only way to know the Self is to become the Self?
40:56 You can’t tell who’s an enlightened person by looking at them.
41:38 Babaji’s use of word peace instead of tranquility.
43:18 Are the imprints in the mind, the habits and patterns we have adopted? Do we also contain the habits of our parents and ancestors along with our own?
47:41 How to explain to others about the spiritual path.
49:38 Is our ability to understand from our karma?
50:17 In nirvikalpa samadhi Babaji observed matter disappearing – does that mean the universe doesn’t exist without an observer to observe it?
51:19 What is on the other side of a black hole?
52:48 What is the best way to select and cultivate a purpose in life?
54:08 The role of enjoyment in a Self Realized being.
57:15 Should one sit in one place to chant mantra japa?
58:01 How to get rid of negative imprints of somebody?
59:09 Are peace and silence the only worldly imaginations of the space?
1:00:13 How to know whether a thought is arising from intuition or the imagination.
1:01:10 Can unhappiness return for enlightened ones, and can an enlighten mind be free from states of body, like health, illness, pleasure, pain?

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