Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Silencing the Mind | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 241 Recorded on 9 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 The mind is continually jumping from one thought to another - how has it become like this? 5:25 "The desire for experience arises as a thought in consciousness and by the repetition of this thought it gains strength." 7:57 When we think it is a problem it becomes a problem. 8:35 If we can silence the mind whenever we wish to, then we can be free of any problems in the mind. 13:25 The watching process of meditation. 27:17 Atman and Anatman 32:14 Silence is the source from which everything arises - mind, world and ego are all one, when we wake up all three arise and when we sleep all three dissolve? 36:34 In daily life is it possible to have a silent mind? 40:28 Take a decision for the sake of taking a decision, then work. Once you have worked, then keep quiet. What has to happen will happen, that is all. 44:19 Should peace be dearer to you than things of the world. 47:15 Is the mind dual or multidimensional - it watches, thinks, analyses and creates. 48:24 We have to use the mind against the mind? 50:51 How to know what is a right or wrong decision. 53:11 What is the technology in watching where slowly the observer and the object starts splitting? 55:20 In the world where the brain is functioning, can we apply this 'watching'? 56:20 To Babaji, what is more important, the love for Swamiji or the silence of the mind? 57:07 What do I do to silence the negative wave of thoughts when waking up in the morning? 58:40 The scriptures say the mind is active in all the three states, waking state, dream state and deep sleep - is the mind when there are thoughts and is the ego there because of the thoughts? 1:02:29 What is the relationship between the brain and the mind when the brain is not functioning - what happens to the Self? 1:03:26 Does Jangama Dhyana restrain the life force or just silence the mind? ___ 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/
