Detachment - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 242

Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/on... Detachment - Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 242 Recorded on 13 April 2025 with US participants Read the full transcript at: https://shivarudrabalayogi.org/qa/det... 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 Yogi acts in the world 9:40 How Babaji seems detached and the most caring also. 10:25 So the important thing to remind yourself if that the body, mind and world are impermanent? 12:32 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4 13:43 What causes the consciousness of existence to lose awareness of itself? 17:09 How to we develop detachment, let go of things and not get carried away emotionally? 20:50 The consciousness is never suffering, it's not involved in the activity. 22:51 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.1-4 25:32 Does a Yogi have happiness or unhappiness, or is he just in a state of peace? 27:58 Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch.9 vv.5-8 29:38 "Once one knows the varying transformation of the elements to be nothing but the elements themselves." 32:58 Mental impressions, mind, consciousness, a brain gets involved and mental impressions are created. 33:54 How can we have a better attitude? Be like a honeybee and not a fly? 35:29 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8 36:48 How a Yogi is "totally indifferent to the world in consciousness" 39:27 Babaji's comments to Ch.9 vv.5-8 41:40 Mental suffering from worry about loved ones 45:00 How do we protect ourselves from other people's negativity? 46:50 When I wake up in the morning, there is a lowness of energy and a kind of a sadness. What happens to the mind that causes this? 48:34 Lately I have this feeling that there are less and less differences between people, things, and whatnot. That on some level, they're really all the same. Is this so? 50:13 How to avoid suffering due to loved ones. 52:29 How to pray to god? 53:28 I am not in close physical proximity to a Guru - how to get Diksha, initiation from a Master? 56:10 Just like in a dream, is it true that all the people and characters we witness are actually the same I-Self emanating from the body consciousness? ___ Subscribe:    / @srbymission   Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook:   / shivarudrabalayogi   Twitter:   / srbymission   Instagram:   / shivarudrabalayogi