Ashtavakta Samhita, Ch.12 "Abiding in the Self" | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.232

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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 a practice that we can do every day?
9:26 Like so many events in life, you just don't need to get involved with them, just let it go.
10:20 Practicing letting go should make it easier for meditation?
11:00 Cutting down on unnecessary thinking is an important practice
11:23 Attention needs to turn away from thoughts, onto the consciousness itself - how do we do that?
15:09 Concentration of the mind is necessary to overcome distractions.
16:02 With whatever you're doing, stay present with that. Don't allow your mind to wander around. 
16:21 Having neither joy nor sorrow doesn't sound that interesting.
19:05 As you meditate more you can rid of becoming a ruminator.
20:01 Is there any other way to settle into the Self, besides effortlessly?
21:10 Baba experiences the reverse of what we experience - it's effortless for us to have mental chatter but Babaji's mental state is to be silent.
22:02 If you meditate regularly, the mind is a quieter place.
23:41 Accepting the results of our actions doesn't mean we can't try to change them.
26:23 "You need to understand the futility of actions, as there's nothing to achieve."
29:26 Importance of the zoom calls with Babaji which motivate us and inform us of the possibilities, otherwise it would be really difficult.
31:18 So what you're saying is that anything you achieve in this world is impermanent, it is not going to bring you peace, so it's really equivalent to nothing.
32:33 "Your very nature is Supreme Peace and the rest is unreal."
36:50 Important things we can practice during the day to quiet our mind.
38:59 If the mind is into imaginations, then you have to do sadhana to achieve silence of the mind.
42:48 "By a thought of the mind, you cannot know your real Self. Only by becoming quiet in the mind can you know your real Self...  ...To know the space, you have to become space."
45:44 Mind can never give the Truth.
46:38 "You can make everything else disappear, but you can't make yourself disappear."
48:25 When you start to meditate, after about 40 minutes the mind and body get still, is that the time that the thoughts gets purified?
49:44 I always want to cry after a meditation. I find it very frightening when you're all alone.
50:47 When memory and time is the material of the mind, can the mind observe without memory and time.
51:56 So is supreme peace the ultimate goal of life? Is that what it is?
52:45 You mentioned that when your mind is completely quiet, then you dissolve in the consciousness.  What's the process?
54:26 We don't really get absorbed into the Self, into the pure consciousness? We are the pure consciousness. Just the illusion that I am a separate being is what ends, right?
55:36 Situations happening because they were set in motion by desires long ago or is it happening because that is what the universe wants from me at this point?
57:41 Is it possible that everyone has already experienced Self Realizatio

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