Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Myths, Miracles and Meditation | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 248 Recorded on 18 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:20 There are so many myths about the powers that one can get through meditation. What powers can one get through meditation? 7:02 How can one be more successful in life when one meditates? 10...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Religion and Spirituality | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 247 Recorded on 11 October 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:14 Do religions and spirituality lead to the same goals? 9:51 How do we choose which path to adopt? 11:30 Some religions say after death there is rebirth, others say there isn't - which is correct? 21:1...

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 th...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Personal Effort, Grace and Satsanga | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 245 Recorded on 23 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:15 Babaji's comment on the quote from Yoga Vasistha: "In the whole of creation, there is no force more powerful than personal effort in the present." 8:36 If that peace is the mind's natural st...

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 Behaviour of the Seeker: Yoga Vasistha | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 244 Recorded on 19 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:06 The end of pleasure is liberation. 10:17 Why are we all after the desires if it is the cause of unhappiness? 16:17 Countless universes have been created in our own mind - how can we realise the tr...

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 Practice of Non-Violence | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 243 Recorded on 13 September 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 What is the true meaning of non-violence 9:38 When Babaji says ‘you have aright to defend yourself’ - is that the self respect? That Babaji talks about? 11:25 Is it the human being that has the ...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Detachment - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 242 Recorded on 13 April 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.1-4 1:36 'To whom do the conflicts belong?' 5:39 Is detachment something that you can practice? 8:17 Difference between detachment, indifference and apathy and how a Yo...

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 strengt...

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 Higher Knowledge" Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 6 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 240 Recorded on 23 February 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:08 Chapter 6 "The Higher Knowledge", verses 1-4 "I am all beings, and all beings are in Me." 7:50 That "I" is not the body or the ideas in the mind. What is the distinction betwe...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Science and Spirituality | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 239 Recorded on 26 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:09 Is science and spirituality compatible with each other or conflicting with each other? 1:04 Science is based on evidence - is there evidence of God or Divinity? 9:27 Is God or Divinity logical? 11:09 Sci...

Send us a text Ashtavakra Gita, Ch.12/13 "Abiding in the Self"/ "Happiness" | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 238 Recorded on 13 July 25 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 Ch.12 Verse 5, rejecting objects which are created by the mind. 1:57 Is it a practice to ignore the mental chatter? 3:30 Ch.12, Verse 6 - abstaining from action, and acting to achieve a desired result - both are born out of ignorance. 3:52 Ch.12, Verse 7 - renouncing all thought for awareness of the Self 4:49 By ...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Guru - Disciple | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.237 Recorded on 5 July 2025 with worldwide participants 00:00 What is the basic theme of the Guru Gita on which Babaji has written a commentary? 04:42 The guru - disciple relationship seems very unique to the spiritual tradition in India. 15:17 The word 'disciple' comes from 'disc...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Transformation on the path of spiritual life | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.236 Recorded on 2 August 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:06 What is the transformation that happened to Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj from when He sat for Tapas as a 14 year old boy? 12:20 What transformation should we see in ourselves as we...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11 - "Wisdom" | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.235 Recorded on 8 June 2025 with US participants 0:00 Intro 0:24 What is wisdom and how can we acquire it? 1:55 How would wisdom be different from knowledge? 2:53 Is wisdom all about finding peace and contentment? 4:30 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 1 - ...

Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/online-satsang Acceptance and Patience | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.234 Recorded on 12 July 2025 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:07 People today have an expectation of instant results, what is the importance of patience? 6:14 Do we first need to realise that peace in the mind is what we need? 7:48 If the peace is not coming, is it...

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 Self-Realisation | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.233 Recorded on 14 October 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:08 What is the achievement of Self-Realisation? 5:37 The Self as the permanent thing which does not change. 7:53 Is it right that the droplet has got involved in the imaginations, but the Self has not got...

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 Ashtavakta Samhita, Ch 12 "Abiding in the Self" | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.232 Recorded on 129 June with US participants 0:00 Intro 1:03 Chapter 12, Verse 1-4 2:28 How do you function in a world where you're unattached to everything? 8:49 Baba, are you saying that we should practice restraining our mind? 9:06 So this is...

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 Removing the ego, the Guru's surgery | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.231 Recorded on 20 July 2024 with worldwide participants 0:00 Introduction from Babaji 2:00 What is the ego and what role does it play? 2:45 Why does every soul have that ego? 4:43 How can we understand the ego in its right sense? 6:63 How important is it f...

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 Krishna and His teachings | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.230 Recorded on 16th December 2023 with worldwide participants 0:00 Intro 0:13 A short description of Krishna's life 9:56 Do we all know that the correct action is for the greater good instinctively or do we need training to know that? 11:17 The thing that stops us fo...

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 Supreme Peace: Beyond all dualities | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.229 Recorded on 3 August 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Introduction from Babaji 1:11 Why is it important for the mind to rise above the qualities of the world and not get involved? 5:25 Is it through meditation that we can rise above these dualities...