Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang "The Universe in a hair" from the Yoga Vasishtha | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 253 Recorded on 22 November 2025 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:38 "Universe in a hair" - Universe is how you perceive it. 3:51 Is there a separation in consciousness to make an individual consciousness? 8:06 So is the world a projection of the mind? 9:28 Is the mind a separation from the higher consciousness? 11:13 Is it possible to experience the undivided space with the mind? 13:43 Is it possible to live in the world but at the same time being unaffected by the duality of the world? 14:16 How can one be in the world, unaffected by the world? 17:32 Does it help to be indifferent to the world in order to be detached? 23:18 If you pray to someone else then you become separate from that entity. 24:19 What should we have faith in? 25:33 So there is only one consciousness of existence? 26:22 It is there all the time in the purest conscious form? 26:22 Is that pure consciousness, god? 27:34 Why did the droplet separate from the ocean of consciousness? 31:10 So the universe expands according to my mind's capacity? 35:09 If the individual 'I' is removed, the universe also disappears? 38:25 'The salt doll, wanting to know the depth of the ocean, jumped into the ocean and become one with it." 39:22 'Watching' in Jangama Dhyana. 42:10 Out of body near death experiences or seemingly spiritual experiences due to psychedelic drugs. 46:17 What is the relationship between our mind and the pure consciousness? 47:59 What about physical space and time, how does that relate to consciousness and our perceptions? 49:48 Does time and space exist? 50:31 The doubt arising of why do I bother to do things in life if they don't matter? 54:08 Who's consciousness is expanding when the universe expands? 54:52 When we see someone else suffering is it necessary to show our compassion to them? 56:15 How to be that sakshi, a witness to this world? 57:15 How does a Yogi dream but still be a witness to it? 58:00 So a Yogi never sleeps? 58:25 The 'watching' in meditation. 59:41 Can we use the breath in meditation? 1:00:23 When we use the breath in meditation, should we keep the breath between the eyebrows? 1:00:52 Is it our perception whether time and space is a prison or a portal? 1:01:54 Are all positive characteristics the same in a greater sense? 1:02:57 And are all negative characteristics also the same thing? 1:04:09 Is it necessary that devotees wear white and also chant a specific mantra? 1:05:25 In all techniques of meditation do we observe the sensations in different places? 1:07:10 Once we reach a higher level are all meditation techniques the same? ___ 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/