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"Peace" - Ashtavakra Samhita Ch18, vv. 18-27 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 282
Recorded on 24 May 2026 with US participants.
0:00 Intro
1:13 Chapter 18, Verse 18 - The state of a Yogi.
5:35 What does Babaji mean by 'knowledge awareness'?
6:08 So it's knowing that truth, supreme truth, by being that awareness?
7:24 So it's like knowing without any thoughts?
7:55 Verse 19 - Even if moving and acting bodily, a Yogi is actually doing nothing.
9:06 You're really a witness to what exists and what doesn't exist.
12:42 Truth means eternal existence, something that never changes, it has always existed.
13:38 Our attention is always shifting between the past and the future, between a memory and an imagination. It never actually stays in the middle, on the Self.
15:37 If it's beneficial to a larger cause, without getting mentally involved, the wise yogi does work mechanically.
17:37 There's no longer an individual imagined self?
18:18 What is it that makes a yogi to act if they are in supreme peace and always free of desires?
20:07 Once the yogi becomes aware that they are the Self, is the body's action just being carried on by the karma of the world, or of the creation?
21:18 You've liberated yourself, yet your body continues to serve humanity, by to trying to raise the consciousness. So isn't that just an act of the Self continuing to use your body?
22:12 Verse 21. Easily, a yogi will have acceptance for the things that happen.
23:01 Verse 22. "A yogi moves in this world without the universe registering in their consciousness."
24:11 There is neither joy nor sorrow, so what's left?
25:32 You are the space, but You are beyond the space?
26:45 Verse 23. Yogis have no resolutions in the mind.
28:17 How do you strength your faith?
28:56 Verse 24. That One is not affected by either honor or dishonor.
29:49 Nothing really registers in a yogi's consciousness - but Babaji seems to be the most conscious and the most responsive person.
34:38 Verse 25. Consciously, A yogi never gets involved in the doership or undergoes any fruits or results of any karmas.
35:52 Verse 26. Though they are simply acting, and in reality are not in this world's scheme. The yogi also never claims that they are acting.
39:20 Verse 27. "Tired of thinking about many different things, the consciousness has settled peacefully, and neither thinks nor knows nor hears nor sees."
41:12 When the Self is fully realized, Self-Realization is complete and permanent a yogi can't fall from that state. Is that true?
43:23 At what point in your tapas had you reached the state of no return, the state of permanent Self-Realization?
44:55 During your tapas, Swamiji was taking you through celestial lokas and said, "Be careful, don't get attracted to any of this, or you could be here a long time".
48:22 When the acceptance and love for Swamiji was so strong, what could have been the ego that Swamiji was trying to get rid of in Babaji?
51:14 How does a guru realise there is ego in the disciple?
52:09 A feeling of when there is nothing to pay attention to, naturally it goes to the space.
54:05 When the thoughts go away in meditation, then what?
55:40 The mind merging with the Self.
56:18 Does Babaji as the guru operate differently to Babaji the man?
57:28 I fear that the last step in gaining enlightenment will never come.
58:33 When I concentrate between the eyebrows I get more thoughts. If I concentrate on the space, I have less thoughts.
59:37 Before doing Tapas did you still have a sense of 'I'?
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