Group Meditation Audio & Notes - Sunday/Wednesday

Audio and notes from Sunday morning/ Wednesday evening meditation group session.

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Group Meditation Sunday 5 April

Paths of Spirituality | In Quest of Truth – Babaji Q&A, No. 263

In the session we played:

26:20 Some saints recommend the path of Nama Japa, repetition of a chant. Is this a valid path and how does it relate to Jangama Dhyana?
31:13 Some teachers advocate pranayama techniques, controlling of the breath. Is this a valid path for Self-Realization?
36:11 Institutions established by Shankaracharya recommend the traditional Vedic path; learning the vedas, following the various ritual etc. Is this a valid path in this current age?

Notes:

For all paths, what is necessary is that the mind becomes quiet

Chanting – Mind should be totally applied, so obsessed with that, so that eventually you don’t think you are chanting, you disappear.
State of Tapas if nothing else but the chant is there, then it is unable to chant, it becomes quiet and merges with the Truth.
Don’t imagine what the chant is. ‘Rama’, or Guru Nanak chanted ‘Thira’, ‘You’ – any name can be divine.
It’s like you see a beautiful scene – you become dumbfound, quiet.
Breathing – Breath can calm you down, but mind has to become silent, the ‘I’ has to disappear.
Study of scriptures – you have to narrow down to single-pointedness.
Need yearning to go to Ultimate Truth, not just be a scholar.
Don’t become egoistic, like you are holding onto a little bit of space, saying ‘it is mine’.
‘If the ego is there, they don’t know anything’.
‘As long as the ‘I’ is there, the danger of ‘I wanting anything’ happens’.

Group Meditation Wednesday 15 April

Babaji’s Life Story | In Quest of Truth – Babaji Q&A, No. 265

In the session we played:

7:57 Innate characteristics of Babaji’s personality as a young boy that were unusual compared to those around Him?
13:24 After Babaji first heard the song ‘Bhaja Govindam’, would the people around him have noticed a change in His behaviour or temperament?

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