In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Shri Babaji

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains and emphasises the important attribute the mind must have when performing selfless service and when helping others. Thus Spake Babaji No.99 Recorded on 15 January 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction 0:06 What is selfless service? 1:44 Can one become Self-Realised through the practice of selfless service? 3:37 What can we do to make our service selfl...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji on why this world is considered an illusion in spirituality. Thus Spake Babaji No.100 Recorded on 18 June 2022 with worldwide participants. To register your free place on the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:00 Intro 0:07 How can this world, which seems so real, be an illusion? 6:50 What does...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains what is needed to be a sincere spiritual seeker, the best student to the master - the ideal disciple. Thus Spake Babaji No.98 Recorded on 04 June 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:05 What are the most important attributes to being a good disciple? 4:42 Story of a disciple asking a master to tell him about the ultimate truth. 14:04 King Janaka as a stud...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A theme: We Must Stop Thinking To Realise The Truth Recorded on 24 April 2022 with US participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:00 Intro 0:07 "Thinking will never give us the truth of who we are" 4:30 Is the consciousne...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji talks about His early life and the events that led to meeting His Guru Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj.  Released In honour of Babaji's 86th Birthday on 20 September 2022. Recorded on 11 June 2022 with worldwide participants. If you would like to convey birthday wishes to Babaji you may do so by emailing birthday@srby.org To join the live online meditation classes with Baba...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains the technology of prayer and how we should pray. Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A theme: The Power of Prayer Recorded on 5 May 2022 with Malaysian participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:00 Intro 0:06 What is prayer? 2:17 If we practice regul...

Send us Fan Mail The Mother Concept and Consciousness | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A No.94 Recorded on 8 May 2022 with US participants. Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji every Saturday: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:00 Intro 0:06 Mother and the Divine Mother in personified and unmanifest form 6:59 What is love? 9:06 Is p...

Send us Fan Mail How to Improve the Quality of the Mind | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A #93 Recorded on 14 May 2022 with worldwide participants. Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:00 Intro 0:06 Were people in the Rig Vedic era able to simply meditate, go into samadhi and realize the Truth?  I...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains the essence of spiritual training and sadhana, emphasizing the importance of applying the mind and keeping it quiet. 0:00 Intro 0:06 The unique way that Babaji was trained by his Guru, Swamiji 9:26 Did Babaji practice all three yogas of bhakti yoga, karma yoga and dhyana yoga? 13:31 Should we look at our own faults instead of those of others? 14:56 How can we make...

Send us Fan Mail Duality and Nonduality | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A #91 Recorded on 30 April 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:06 You as the droplet and the ocean as the target 4:42 Do you start as dualistic and end as nondualistic? 8:04 Adi Shankar wrote devotional hymns and taught nonduality - is that a contradiction? 10:23 Is nonduality an experience of a Yogi, a philosoph...

Send us Fan Mail The Teachings of Shri Krishna | Thus Spake Babaji - online Q&A #90 Babaji explains various teachings of Shri Krishna from the Mahabharata 0:00 Intro 0:06 Sometimes the Pandavas sought Shri Krishna's advice, sometimes they didn't - is there a lesson to be learnt from this? 3:25 How to decide what is appropriate to ask the Guru 6:40 The teaching behind the disrobing of...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #89 recorded on 16 April 2022 with worldwide participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:07 What is faith and what should we have faith in? 1:41 What is the difference between faith and blind belief? 2:50 Should you not lose faith...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains the true nature of reality, as he experienced in deep meditation.   Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #88 recorded on 26 March 2022 with worldwide participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:06 What does Babaji means when he says that the world is...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #87 recorded on 5 December 2021 with US participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:06 Clarification on the meditation technique 2:42 To know the truth of who we are do we have to stop thinking? 4:17 Is it possible to have an unca...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #86 recorded on 2 January 2022 with US participants. If you are interested in joining the live online meditation classes with Babaji please visit https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang  0:06 Do all the benefits of meditation including Self- Realization come from silencing the mind? 1:54 What is the attention of the mind? 6:33 As we p...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #84 recorded on 12 March 2022 with worldwide participants. "Renunciation has to happen in the mind first" Babaji answers questions on the real meaning of renunciation. 0:06 Is it possible to be renounced but still continue with worldly responsibilities? 3:05 Do we renounce expectations, desires or ego? 4:38 Should we aim to remove the eg...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny |  Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #85 Self-realized meditation master Shiva Rudra Balayogi (Babaji) gives insights into the wide subject of destiny. 0:06 Is destiny the result of our actions? 18:17 Should we think that we have no destiny or that we must create a positive destiny? 20:57 If in each incarnation our mind loses potency, how can we overcome the results of a p...

Send us Fan Mail Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #83 recorded on 5 March 2022 with worldwide participants. "Our body's health, mental health and moral health - that's religion" Babaji explains the true meaning of religion. 0:06 What is the true meaning of religion and is it different to spirituality? 4:13 Why is it that religious people get into conflicts? 9:22 Why is there d...

Send us Fan Mail "When your mind becomes quiet, it goes towards the Divine, its ultimate truth." Babaji answers questions on Divinity Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #82 recorded on 19 February 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:06 Explanation of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Parabrahman 6:55 God as form or formlessness 10:27 How Babaji considered statues of the Divine as a young boy 14:0...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji answers questions on the beautiful concept of Guru and Disciple. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #81 recorded on 12 February 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:20 Is it only the ego that needs renouncing? 3:01 What is real renunciation? 4:27 What is Guru's Grace? 8:24 What are the qualities of a true Guru? 10:24 How can a Yogi or Guru teach in silence? 14:43 Having...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji answers questions on His commentary on the Viveka Choodamani (the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination), the ancient text written by the great Yogi-philosopher Adi Shankaracharya. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #80 recorded on 5 February 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:07 How do you shape a positive destiny? 7:18 How to make meditation fun? 10:13 Why is it important for the...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji answers questions on His commentary on the Viveka Choodamani (the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination), the ancient text written by the great Yogi-philosopher Adi Shankaracharya. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #79, recorded on 29 January 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:06 The meaning of 'Viveka Choodamani' 1:17 What is the real and the unreal and how to discrimin...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains how to find permanent peace and happiness. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #78, recorded on 22 January 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:07 The question Babaji had on happiness as a small child 1:31 Why do we think of happiness as being from this world only? 3:23 Is our imagination of unhappiness the reason for losing happiness? 5:35 Is happiness, excitement an...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains how to deepen your meditation practice. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #77, recorded on 8 January 2022 with worldwide participants. 0:06 I meditate everyday but don't feel like I am progressing, am I doing something wrong? 5:24 As a young boy did Babaji's mind naturally go quiet in meditation? 7:01 When the mind is too busy to go into meditation is it...

Send us Fan Mail Babaji explains his teachings on the eternal existence and consciousness. Thus Spake Babaji, online Q&A #76, recorded on 12 December 2021, with US participants. 0:12 The difference between the eternal existence and consciousness 10:42 Once the mind becomes totally still does it transcend consciousness? 15:06 If the mind creates the illusion does it all disappear when you quiet...