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The True Knower, Pt1 | In Quest of Truth - Babaji Q&A, No. 267
Recorded on 18 January 2026 with US participants

0:00 Intro
0:33 Verse 1. Someone who's attained Self-realization is fully contented, attaining the fruit of all knowledge.
2:52 For a Self-realized soul, solitude is not loneliness or missing something. 
6:43 The most that knowledge can do is bring peace, which is the fruit of all Knowledge and the goal of Yoga.
7:58 What does it mean to purified the senses?
9:59 Verse 2.  What does it mean, that the entire universe filled with nothing but the Self?
14:28 A Self-realized soul is fully aware that this all-pervasive space is nothing but the Self.
16:11 Is the mind is just the thoughts arising in consciousness? 
18:14 How consciousness got trapped into it's own illusion.
21:46 Verse 3. None of the senses please One who rests delighting in the Self.
26:00 What's the different between a Self-Realized person and a Self-Realized soul?
27:38 How does a Yogi perceive people?
28:34 Verse 4. A Yogi is no longer a victim of the past memories.
30:35 Are you destroying your mind, the imprints and memories?
31:47 Are the imprints and memories erased from the mind but not erased from the brain?
33:25 What is the fastest way to realise that what you are seeing is not the truth?
34:21 Verse 5.  What motivates a Yogi to get up in the morning if they are completely contented? 
39:15 Attaining Yoga, union with the Self, is that beyond desire, and even the idea of liberation?
40:50 Do you get carried across the threshold spontaneously?
41:45 Are you training the mind to surrender until the point of going beyond the 'I am'? 
43:46 At that time when you're completely engrossed in the experience, do you still have an awareness of yourself?
44:58 The story of Angulimala and Buddha in today's context.
47:07 Is it recommended to practice sitting on the ground in meditation?
48:01 How do we carry on with our daily lives and at the same time remove the ego and thoughts?
49:39 Why is it we have to keep our back straight in meditation?
51:04 A personal decision about whether to stay and help family members or to move away, helping more people elsewhere.
53:19 Can a Guru give an experience of Samadhi to the disciple?
55:38 How to practice consciousness in daily activity?
58:35 People who do some magic work and cheat people of this world claiming they are gods.  What knowledge of the Self can these gods impart?


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