Send us a text Tranquility - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.14 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 246 Recorded on 27 July 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:48 Chapter 14, verse 1 1:22 "The mind being fully settled in the Self" - what do you mean by the mind? 4:22 For a Self Realized person, do thoughts arise in the mind? 6:21 So thoughts arise as needed and then spontaneously settle down? 6:50 It seems that the nature of the mind is to have thoughts, but you've also said the nature of the mind is to be silent. 8:15 What makes creation start? What makes thoughts arise? 8:39 So could you say that creation in the mind is a second nature of the mind? 10:19 Once Self Realization has happened, will nothing make the mind go back to the world? 10:46 What is it about the unrealized person that keeps us involved in the Maya, unable to see the truth of our own Self? 11:30 The difference between an intention and desire is you want something to happen, but you have no attachment to it? 12:35 Babaji comments on the term in science, 'singularity' 15:56 For the Self Realized person, what happens to karma? 18:08 What is it that makes consciousness become mind? 18:42 Chapter 14, verse 1 - the indifference of a Yogi to the world. 20:24 Chapter 14, verse 2 - What keeps a Self Realized person functioning, if there is no attachment to the world? 23:10 For the Self Realized person the wisdom comes spontaneously. 24:16 So the scriptures and knowledge are really unnecessary? 25:15 What books would Babji recommend people to read for inspiration, besides the Ashtavakra Gita? 26:04 Chapter 14, verse 3 - Is a Self-Realized person just a silent witness to everything that's happening? 27:48 Chapter 14, verse 4 - the Self Realized person can be involved in thought, but never loses awareness that He's infinite, eternal, unbounded? 29:42 "For the Self Realized one, the mind will be infinite like space." 33:16 Seeing everything as divine, every atom. 33:58 "knowledge is self experience" 35:55 Consciousness has potential to express itself in some type of creation or imagination - when that's there, you call it mind, when it's not there you call it consciousness? 37:55 Science will never fully prove the Self because the only way to know the Self is to become the Self? 40:56 You can't tell who's an enlightened person by looking at them. 41:38 Babaji's use of word peace instead of tranquility. 43:18 Are the imprints in the mind, the habits and patterns we have adopted? 47:41 How to explain to others about the spiritual path. 49:38 Is our ability to understand from our karma? 50:17 In nirvikalpa samadhi Babaji observed matter disappearing - does that mean the universe doesn't exist without an observer to observe it? 51:19 What is on the other side of a black hole? 52:48 What is the best way to select and cultivate a purpose in life? 54:08 The role of enjoyment in a Self Realized being. 57:15 Should one sit in one place to chant mantra japa? 58:01 How to get rid of negative imprints of somebody? 59:09 Are peace and silence the only worldly imaginations of the space? 1:00:13 How to know whether a thought is arising from intuition or the imagination. 1:01:10 Can unhappiness return for enlightened ones? ___ Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission Instagr 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/
