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The Droplet and the Ocean | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.224
Recorded on 29 March 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Intro
0:07 What is the droplet and what is the ocean?
2:47 Everything that we think we are as an individual does not actually exist?
3:57 Would it have been a very long journey to reach the situation we are in now where it's difficult to think in any other way?
9:07 A passage from the Viveka Choodamani - do we have to accept the world as it is and not go into a collision with it?
15:25 I it because we hold on to the thoughts and imaginations that we remain as a droplet?
20:50 Can a Yogi have a thought and still remain as the ocean?
24:18 Nothing has happened to the ocean of the Self, it remains intact.
34:18 Does the quietness have to be more interesting than the world?
38:49 What are the efforts that need to be made to return to the ocean, the Self, in addition to meditation?
41:12 Is there no in-between state between being Self Realised and not being Self Realised?
41:32 Does the Self have intelligence?
42:49 Does silence have a sound or a texture? How to recognise it?
45:44 Should I sit in meditation more than doing japam?
46:44 How can we achieve through paths other than meditation like Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga?
48:33 The more I am silent and meditate, I am unable to connect with family members.
49:45 Are animals and plants droplets also?
50:43 Does the space or ocean have some divine law or rules which we have to adhere to?
55:58 Is it the patterns and habits of the mind that go on as a seed to the next birth - is that the individual soul?
57:43 Although many masters have appeared throughout human history to bring everlasting peace, why is work still in progress?

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Yoga Vasistha, Vairagya Part 3 | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.223
Recorded on 3 May 2025 with worldwide participants

0:00 Introduction
0:38 "All hopes of man are consistently destroyed by time." If time is unreal, how can something unreal be indestructible?
7:26 What is the relation between silence and time?
9:53 Are time and space different aspects of the same thing?
11:52 Has a Yogi has overcome the effects of time?
14:17 Lord Yama as the presiding deity of time.
17:09 "Only that thing which cannot be lost I can regard as a gain, but such a thing does not exist in this world."
23:28 One who has given up everything but has not yet reached the Truth.
26:27 The story of Shuka Maharaj and King Janaka.
34:33 How can we perform Guru Seva when we are staying away from Babaji?
35:36 How can we have a two-way communication with God?
36:09 A feeling that something is spinning on the head during meditation.
37:00 Meaning of the Sanskrit term chid vyoma.
38:59 The concept of Mother kali in relation to time.
40:06 For a Yogi, time does not exist? Was it bondage of mind and thus time that made Shri Rama feel acute vairagya?
42:30 How to know if there is progress from meditation into samadhi? Is then self awareness effortless or is still effort is needed?
43:40 Why does the mind not let the body be disciplined?
44:42 Is it possible to divide the meditation into two parts, morning and evening?

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Viveka Choodamani - Impermanence of the Physical Body | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.222
Recorded on 10 April 2025 with Malaysian participants.

0:00 Intro
0:06 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 13 - The impermanence of the physical body, verses 72 & 73
1:34 How in the first place did the misidentification of consciousness identifying as the body and mind happen?
3:15 Do we also need to detach ourselves from people in our lives in order to achieve peace?
5:13 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 13 - The impermanence of the physical body, verses 74 & 75
6:30 What is the connection between jeevatma, mind and consciousness?
8:42 Are the brain's reflections just past imprints of the mind or are they fresh imaginations? How do we get out of this delusion?
12:30 Through meditation can we change our destiny?
16:18 Viveka Choodamani - Chapter 14 - Rejecting the impermanent, verses 76 & 77
17:51 How can we keep the senses engaged in the world and at the same time keep them withdrawn?
23:01 If we have the mind under our control, the brain can be the best friend otherwise it can be the worst enemy
31:20 How does learning to control and withdraw our senses to live a better life in this dangerous world of ill-minded people?
38:35 Outro

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