Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Keeping quiet mentally | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.220 Recorded on 15 March 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Why does Babaji recommend that we put in efforts to become quiet in the mind? 5:55 Is the concentration of the mind the same as the quietening of the mind? 7:40 Why has it become so difficult for the mind to be quiet? 10:11 Do we need to let go of desires and expectations in order to become quiet? 13:39 Is the recommendation not to be too attached to things? 17:54 What should we be doing in the meditation for the mind to become quiet? 26:37 So during meditation we should not worry about whether we are quiet or not, just apply the method? 27:06 A Yogi may appear to be acting in a normal way but inside is totally different? 32:36 Outside meditation, when active in the world, how can we be quiet? 34:28 When staring off into space and not thinking, is that laziness or something else? 35:52 Can we use the mind in the same way we use a switch to turn a light on whenever we need it? 37:19 While reading Ashtavakra Samhita, I experience an attachment to god for a short while, is that ok? 38:13 If 100 people in the world become Self Realised and the world collapses, what about the rest of humanity - what will happen to them? 38:45 How is the Ultimate Truth of the mind and the Divinity the same thing? 40:09 At the end of the meditation, how do I know whether my attention slipped off during the meditation? 41:46 How to achieve being mentally quiet through Bhakti yoga and Karma yoga? 42:53 I experience short periods of silence during meditation, how to prolong the silence and reduce the chatter? 43:48 When getting up in the morning, the mind starts overthinking and gives discomfort to the body in meditation. 45:00 Until we perfect holding the eyeballs in between eyebrows, the eyes are still active in meditation - is purification still happening? ___ Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/ Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/
