Group Meditation Audio & Notes – Sunday/Wednesday

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

These will remain up for 1 week.

Group Meditation Sunday 19 July

Nature of Self Realization – Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch7 vv1-5 | In Quest of Truth – Babaji Q&A, No. 277

In the session we played:

14:29 When we experience something, the object is actually there, but our interpretation is just an imagination about that object?
16:00 So it’s a cooperation between the brain, the physical organism, and the mind that fabricates the whole illusion.
17:05 Verse 5 – “What a great marvel! I’m actually pure consciousness.”
19:36 You can stop thinking and all the imagery, but you can’t make the consciousness go away, because that’s your Self.
20:19 Do you rise above that, Baba, in Nirvikalpa Samadhi or Sahaja Samadhi?
20:37 Verse 5 comments
21:49 What is watching the mind through the mind?
24:31 So there is a duality in the sense that there’s a knowingness going on, but there’s no second thing, it’s just knowing itself.
25:40 So we’re using the mind’s attention to watch itself, is that what we’re trying to accomplish with meditation?
27:28 So once you get absorbed in that point there is just seeing?
28:36 As you become absorbed in between the eyebrows, you are no longer seeing with the eyeballs, but yet you continue to see with your mind’s eye?

Shri Babaji’s commentary on the ‘Ashtavakra Samhita’ is available as either a physical or digital book.

Notes:

We don’t know if object is there because are looking, sensing it as another object – It is possible that neither exists.
The mind refuses to accept if told it doesn’t exist.
When you meditate, one day you will realize it doesn’t exist.
When you become aware of the Consciousness of Existence, that is not seeing through the eyes.
When mind becomes quiet, it experiences itself. Until then you won’t feel it exists.
‘Only the Self can see the Self’.
Consciousness had up to that point experienced duality, so ‘warmed up’ duality is there. There is no duality, yet it appears to be dual – it is a hair-raising experience, just before the merger. (same one thing, but feels it is experiencing itself)
Meditation – from the beginning no target is given. Like the vanishing point – it disappears – duality of watching stops – ‘you’ and ‘me’ stops.
When stabilsed on final point, eyes don’t see anymore. If you are able to hold onto that, then you can do tapas.

Group Meditation Wednesday 15 July

Nature of Self Realization – Ashtavakra Samhita, Ch7 vv1-5 | In Quest of Truth – Babaji Q&A, No. 277

In the session we played:

3:45 In me, the universe moves driven by its own inherent nature – I am completely unaffected by it.
5:50 What makes the absolute manifest into mind?
8:06 Is mind what is responsible for things appearing in consciousness
9:10 What is the nature of manifest existence?
10:23 What is the nature of consciousness?
11:55 Why does Creation come into existence?
13:42 We are actually living our life in our own mind?

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