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 Mystery of Existence | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.212 Recorded on 14 September 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:28 We think of our existence as the body - is this our real existence or is it something else? 3:38 Is existence always in duality, or does it not need a second thing to exist? 5:09 Are existence and awareness the same? 5:34 Is awareness permanent but existence not permanent? 6:56 What is the source of existence? 7:51 Is this awareness which gives the sense of existence the same as the consciousness of existence? 10:20 Where has this mind come from and what is its existence? 13:16 Is this feeling of existence the source of my entity? 15:03 What is this awareness and how can I become aware of it? 17:52 Is my consciousness and your consciousness two different things or is it one single mass? 19:18 Is it because we thing our appearance in this world as our existence that prevents awareness of our permanent existence? 22:08 Even if I go to Mars or the Moon, if my mind is not under my control, I will always be unhappy? 24:15 Are human beings the most vulnerable beings because we are always dancing to the emotions of the mind ? 28:37 Every time we make a judgement are we going away from our existence? 31:06 Having value for every life at the same time as awareness of the permanent existence. 35:46 Purification of the mind allows consideration of people around you. 39:30 My existence as an individual brings lot of desires - how to overcome this drama of my own emotions? 42:54 As it is described in the Yoga Vasistha, how time and space are in the illusion. 46:55 Are time and space the same or two different things? 48:52 Is existence beyond time and space? 50:05 If there is no birth or death, where is there a place for rebirth, and why would the soul want to play the game of birth and death? 52:58 If all consciousness is the same, why do we have to be physically here? 54:52 Why does the mind create all these emotions and how to transcend all the emotions? 58:25 How has the pure consciousness become 8 billion minds? 1:00:40 What is maya and how is it different than visions and dreams? 1:05:23 What does Yoga Vasistha mean by 'no mind'? 1:06:15 In the context of existence is everything pre-determined? 1:09:40 Is karma in the brain and the body or in the mind? 1:10:18 Does Swamiji come in bhava samadhi? 1:11:54 A fear and body movement when sitting for longer meditations. 1:12:58 How long does it take to realise the Self? 1:14:26 Is consciousness and the Self the same? 1:14:55 Should we continue to follow a previous Guru? Is it ok to follow more than one Guru? 1:15:54 Headache when practicing meditation. 1:16:52 How to progress in spiritual path when experiencing obstacles in life. 1:17:42 Does our consciousness still experience individuality when it merges with the Self? 1:19:53 If we have dreams, does that mean our minds are not pure? 1:21:15 A strong identification of the body outside meditation. 1:22:17 A pressure felt in between eyebrows during meditation and outside meditation - is that normal? ___ Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission 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/