Maya - the endless illusion | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.195
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Maya - the endless illusion | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.195
Recorded on 12 October 2024 with worldwide participants
0:00 Intro
0:24 What is maya?
2:25 What's the difference between maya and samsara?
5:25 What is the power of the illusion that makes it appear as a reality?
11:20 "The appearance is latent in the infinite consciousness"
15:04 Can the illusion go on and on endlessly until we get out of it?
20:56 Why does the Yoga Vasistha refer to waking, sleeping and deep sleep states as the three worlds?
27:24 Is it important to think of the wakeful state as like the dream state?
33:43 What happens when we awake from this illusion?
35:35 What is the cosmic creation and cosmic dissolution?
38:15 Yoga Vasistha extract: "Dissolution of the world appearance that has never been, is not and it will never be. All this is pure consciousness and supreme peace. It exists as the infinite."
41:05 "Logical or physical conditioning is an appearance like the sound that is heard when the wind blows, which is heard though it is not there at all."
44:26 Is it ok to believe that we are totally protected by god and guru as we go through this?
45:05 What about the spirit world, star beings, guides or mediums?
45:53 How to avoid compulsion for food?
47:20 What is the prime maya?
48:28 How can anyone get liberated unless he drops his ego and personhood?
49:15 How can truth be experienced?
50:22 Withdrawing the mind through meditation - a questioner asks about her elderly mother.
53:00 A story from the Yoga Vasistha about the illusion - we believe and see whatever our mind tells us.
59:18 Is there no truth in trying to reason out what the mind is showing?
1:00:36 Unable to gather the strength to do something challenging.
1:01:32 What is the difference between Turiya and Nirvikalpa Samadhi?
1:01:55 Why is fear not included as one of the six shapes of the mind?
1:03:20 Doing puja for ancestors - how does this work?
1:05:56 Is whatever is playing out in this birth carried over from the previous birth's resolutions?
1:07:32 Does this meditation in Babaji's presence serve as initiation?
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