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 Shaping a better future | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.205 Recorded on 31st December 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:08 How do we shape a better future for ourself? 1:27 How can we remove or change our latent tendencies? 5:19 Should we focus on our Self rather than the body and mind? 7:33 So how we perceive ourself is important? 8:40 Do all bodies and beings exist in one consciousness? 11:58 The Truth of our Existence revealed when we silence the mind. 15:30 Mind when it is silent it is pure consciousness and when it moves it is mind? 18:12 Knowledge requires a mind but awareness does not? 19:34 The wheel/axle analogy - what is beyond the almost stationary point at the middle of the axle? 24:46 Are awareness and existence the same? 26:26 Is it ok to consider consciousness as a field of all possibilities? 26:45 At every moment we have a chance to be aware of the Self as opposed to the mind and body? 28:33 What is everywhere, we don't notice. 33:27 Latent tendencies, acquired habits and previous resolutions. 34:54 Do we hold our current situation by holding on to our thoughts? 38:55 Having a silent mind versus changing our thinking when in the world. 43:41 How do we know when we are Self Realised? 45:31 Do we have to keep our mind quiet at the time of death? 47:59 What is the true meaning of dharma? Is it a part of Brahman or is it an imagination? 51:29 During the five year Tapas, was it the higher consciousness that prompted Babaji to be brought out of samadhi? 53:22 Is the state of enlightenment permanent or does it have to be worked on all the time? 58:20 Are there samskaras that continue to come up fro the past that we need to deal with consciously? 1:02:33 Our final experiences are not happy ones, with the body failing, in pain. 1:05:00 What causes the realisation that the world is not going to give what we are really seeking? 1:08:17 How to work with Swamiji's image? ___ 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/
