Swami Dhyan Giten's Blog, page 18
October 20, 2016
Satsang with Giten: A Taste of Eternity
Satsang with Giten:
A Taste of Eternity
Comment from participant in satsang with Giten, October 13, in Stockholm
“Satsang with Giten was a taste of the eternal, a taste of the timeless. It felt like we sat for 3 hours, while we only sat for 40 minutes.”
– Toshen, participant in satsang with Giten
October 12, 2016
AWAKENING: The Heart of Silence Silent Satsang Day with Giten, December 11, 2016, in Stockholm
Awakening:
The Heart of Silence
– Silent Satsang Day with Giten,
December 11, 2016
10.00 AM – 18.00 PM
600:-
“Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being, with our authentic self, with the meditative quality within, with the inner silence and emptiness. This inner emptiness is experienced by others and is expressed on the outside as love. This love is not addressed to a specific person; it is a presence and quality that surrounds a person like a fragrance.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN, spiritual teacher and author, has more than 30 years of experience in individual counseling and in teaching awareness and meditation. He is trained in both modern psychology and in classic Eastern methods for awareness and meditation.
In 1982, when Giten was 23 years old, he was directed by the Divine presence in a trance session with the American trance chancellor Lin David Martin: “You have listened to your intuition, to your true inner voice, more than most. You have been searching for the contact with the Spirit for a long time and now it is beginning to manifest on the outer plane. You have been gifted many times in previous embodiments and now everything will come rather easy for you. I want you to put your energy into the lives of others, because you can”.
A spiritual teacher, who have counselled thousands of people, told Giten in 1984: “You will dissolve into the silence. All the earlier enlightened Masters and all the small Deva’s are just here to help you to get enlightened.”
Participants in satsang with Giten have commented:
“I have never felt such a strong process. I could never have imagined that the combination of ayurveda and satsang with Giten could start such a strong physical and spiritual process.”
– Toshen, participant in satsang with Giten
“It was fantastic wonderful to be in Giten’s presence.”
– Charlotte Westh Kujawa, Los Angeles and Malmoe, participant in satsang with Giten, November 12, 2015, in Stockholm.
“When I participated in satsang with Giten for the first time, I felt that I had come to the right place. I felt that I had come home. I never thought that a 2-hour satsang could go so deep. The love that I found within myself during satsang with Giten just continued to flow a week after the satsang.”
–Iiris, special education teacher for autistic children and participant in satsang with Moji and Eckhart Tolle
The third day of the satsang weekend with Giten, December 9-11, is a satsang day in silence, which can be booked as a separate satsang day in silence.
This satsang day in silence is Giten’s invitation to sincere seekers after love, truth and freedom, who wants to discover their own authentic inner being, the inner silence and emptiness, the inner source of love and truth, the capacity to surrender to life.
Satsang with Giten is a supportive and loving space, where Giten answers and guides sincere seekers of love, truth and freedom into the direct experience and realization of being.
Giten will also talk about Ayurvedic spirituality and self-realization to bring light to our spiritual path. Ayurveda offers the wisdom of the ancient system of Ayurveda healing, Ayurveda psychology and Ayurveda spirituality and self-realization. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest and most comprehensive systems of natural medicine and spirituality.
This silent retreat offers the opportunity for sincere seekers of love and truth to be immersed in the energy field of Satsang – of love, meditation and prayer, and without the usual demands, pressures and distractions of daily life and social interaction. Whilst silence means to keep quiet externally and refrain from contact with those around us, it also means to introvert our attention and rest it in being, in the heart.
Although this may initially bring some resistance, when one persists beyond this, the mind is absorbed into presence.
This silent satsang day has the power to change your life.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
TIME: Sunday, December 11. 10.00 AM – 18.00 PM.
COST: 600 SEK – 60 EUR. Lunch is not included, but there are a lot of places around.
PLACE: Stockholm.
LANGUAGE: Swedish
REGISTRATION: Registration Before December 1.
INFORMATION:
Read more about satsang with Giten on The Giten Blog:
www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
September 28, 2016
Satsang Weekend with Giten: Divine Healing, December 9-11, 2016
Satsang Weekend
with Giten:
Divine Healing
Healing from Within:
Ayurvedic healing, Ayurvedic psychology and Ayurvedic spirituality and self-realization
9-11 december, 2016
“Healing basically comes from the silence within.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“The basic cause of physical imbalance and disease is to lose contact with your soul, with your spiritual purpose in life.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Meditation is the most important treatment to regain balance and health. Meditation is to come in contact with your soul, with the inner silence, which is the inner source of healing and wholeness.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Mental and physical disease are often caused by a lack of love.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“The presence of a healer whose presence and spiritual energy is awakened is healing.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Touch is the way through which the healing is conveyed between the healer and the client.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“The healer´s presence and spiritual energy can awaken the vitality and life force of the client, which creates healing.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
During this satsang weekend, Giten will give an overview of the Eastern science behind the energy centers in the human body that are called chakras. It is a science that underlies traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine and the practice of kundalini yoga, among other disciplines that recognize the deep connection between mind and body.
We will also explore how these principles apply to understanding the natural healing power of the body, mind and consciousness, how they apply to human psychological growth and maturation and the evolution of consciousness.
This Satsang Weekend will be especially of interest to the large group of people involved with spirtuality, meditation, health and yoga, as Giten will talk about what underlies the Kundalini Yoga approach to the human energy system. During these satsang evenings Giten will deliver the ‘esoteric science’ and understanding in the context of personal growth and transformation.
During this satsang weekend, we will explore the following topics:
– MEDITATION: How meditation is the most important treatment to regain balance and health. The basic cause of physical imbalance and disease are to lose contact with your soul, with your spiritual purpose in life. Meditation is to come in contact with your soul, with the inner silence, which is the inner source of healing and wholeness.
– HEALING: Reconecting with our inner silence, the inner source of healing, which activates the natural healing power of the body, mind and consciouseness.
– CHAKRAS: Understanding the chakra system and discover the interconnections between the chakras, physical organs and emotions. Dissolution of ego is the key to develop chakras, because ego creates the constriction of energy that prevents chakras from functioning.
– AYURVEDIC HEALING offers the wisdom of this ancient system of mind-body medicine. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest and most comprehensive systems of natural medicine. During these satsang evenings Giten will describe the foundations and principles of Ayurveda. Topics covered include diet and digestion, toxic build-up, purification therapies and the effects of the emotions and thinking on health. He will also talk about Ayurvedic treatment for all the main common diseases of the systems of the body from the digestive system to the nervous system and mind.
– HEALING OF THE HEART: PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF IMBALANCE AND DISEASE: Imbalance and physical disease are caused both by psychological, emotional and physical causes. If you are struggling with pain from the past that is preventing you from experiencing happiness in the present, now is the time to release this emotional toxicity and set yourself free. Emotional pain takes many forms: the grief of loss, overwhelming stress and anxiety, depression, job burnout, feeling stuck, heart break, regret, the inability to trust, anger, and worry about the future. In the face of difficulty, most of us do our best to cope with the situation, hold it together, and keep going, but we often end up carrying emotional pain that we don’t know how to heal or release.
AYURVEDIC PSYCHOLOGY: Exploring the psychological aspect of Ayurveda. Exploring how to heal the mind, body and consciousness on all levels from the conscious, the subconscious to the superconscious through diet, and many spiritual methods to create wholeness.
AYURVEDIC SPIRITUALITY, SELF-REALIZATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT: Ayurveda includes not only physical health, but also spirituality, self-realization and enlightenment. Ayurvedic spirituality and self-realization addresses our entire nature, our greater life as a spiritual being. It looks at the the entire field of yoga and meditation and our preparation for spiritual life. This is for people who want to explore issues on a deeper level of knowledge than what is usually described in introductory books on these subjects.
Satsang with Giten is a meeting in love, truth and silence. Satsang with Giten is a direct insight and realization of being.
Satsang begins with a lecture, interactive dialogue with questions and answers and ends with silent satsang. In satsangs during the autumn a deep silence and untiy has arises in the satsang group.
This Satsang Intensive also works as a prolonged shaktipat (transmission of spiritual energy), which both creates immediate result – together with effect that becomes obvious during the coming weeks and months after the intensive. When Giten pursued an advanced training in spiritual healing in USA 1984, he was told that he had the capacity to become a seventh chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a catalyst and channel for spiritual energy from the seventh chakra through the heart. The last 30 years has meant to develop and deepen this capacity to an instrument of subtle catalytic effect, which Giten uses in this Satsang series.
Satsang with Giten gathers people from all walks of life. During the last two satsangs seekers and meditators, psychotherapists, medical doctors, nurses, ayurvedic healers and doctors, film makers from the Swedish television and musicians and music teachers have gathered.
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN, spiritual teacher and best-selling author, has more than 30 years of experience in individual counseling and in teaching awareness and meditation. He is trained in both modern psychology and in classic Eastern methods for awareness and meditation in USA, Italy, Sweden and India.
Giten experienced his first satori, his first glimpse of spiritual awakening, when he was 9 years old. This created a deep thirst and longing in his heart and being to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten has dedicated his life to teach the art of awareness and meditation. He conducts individual consultations, seminars and courses internationally. His quotes, articles and books have touched the hearts of thousands and are appearing with increasing frequency in magazines, blogs and websites.
Since he began to meditate when he was 15 years old, he has dedicated his life to the study and exploration of the inner journey in order to move out of his own way, to be in a flow, and to discover the authentic inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, the capacity to surrender to life. He does not belong to any spiritual group or tradition; he is only interested to explore what it means to live with open eyes.
Giten’s first professional passion when he was 15 years old was to become an actor. After training as an actor, he worked as an actor until he was 23 years old. Working as actor taught him a lot about life and to emphatically understand the situation and life of other people, since acting is really a spiritual occupation. It taught him about spirituality, since working as an actor means to play a role totally, while at the same time as you know deep down that you are not the role you are playing. After working as an actor for a number of years, Giten began to understand that his early passion for theatre was really an unconscious search for a spiritual discipline. When he realized this, he began to feel a thirst to work with people in a more direct way in awareness and meditation.
In 1982, when Giten was 23 years old, he was directed by the Divine presence in a trance session with the American trance chancellor Lin David Martin: “You have listened to your intuition, to your true inner voice, more than most. You have been searching for the contact with the Spirit for a long time and now it is beginning to manifest on the outer plane. You have been gifted many times in previous embodiments and now everything will come rather easy for you. I want you to put your energy into the lives of others, because you can”.
His three creative areas to express the mysteries of meditation in outer form are teaching, writing and painting. His meditative art is internationally recognized and have been nominated for the international art exhibition The Florence Biennale in Italy, which is arranged in cooperation with The United Nations.
He is author of the best-selling book in Swedish Meditationens Sång – Om meditation, relationer och andlig kreativitet (Solrosens forlag, 2001, available from Internet book store Adlibris: www.adlibris.com), and The Silent Whisperings of the Heart – An Introduction to Giten’s Approach to Life (2008, available as paperback at Internet book store Lulu.com:www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten), Presence – Working from Within. The Psychology of Being (2011, available as paperback at Internet book store Lulu:www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten), Meditation – A Yes to Life, Healing Is Pure Love, Presence – The Inner Source of Love, Truth and Wholeness and The Language of Silence – From Darkness to Light (available in paperback at Lulu.com: www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten). The last four books are also available as free e-books at the award winning book site Obooko.com).
Swami Dhyan Giten has been accepted as Goodreads author on the international book site Goodreads with 40 million users together with best-selling spiritual author Paulo Coelho, # 1 New York Best-selling author Alyson Noel and award winning author Margaret Atwood (http://www.goodreads.com/SwamiDhyanGiten).
Recommendations, quotes and discussions of Giten’s articles and books and its content are also beginning to appear with increasing frequency in magazines and on sites ranging from The Times of India, the largest daily English newspaper in the World, USA Today, the largest daily newspaper in the US, the US news site Newsblaze, Edge Life Magazine, a leading source for psychology, education and world transformation in the US, and Sentient Times Magazine to the large Internet communities MySpace.com, a large Internet community for young people, Wasteland, the American online magazine Alternative Approaches, Motivateus.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com, newsletters of American High tech companies to small discussion forums and blogs focused on spirituality, health, art and literature.
PRAKTISK INFORMATION:
TIME: December 9-11. Friday 19-22 PM, saturday 10 AM-18 PM, sunday 10 AM-18 PM.
COST:1100 SEK – 110 EUR. Lunch is not included, but there are a lot of places around.
PLACE: Stockholm.
LANGUAGE: Swedish
REGISTRATION: Registration Before December 1.
INFORMATION: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com
Reda more about satsang with Giten on The Giten Blog:
www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
September 8, 2016
SATSANG WITH GITEN: DIVINE HEALING, November 2016 – January 2017, in Stockholm
SATSANG WITH GITEN: DIVINE HEALING
– The Art of Spiritual Healing
Discover the natural healing power of the mind, body and consciousness
November 2016 – January 2017
“Healing basically comes from the silence within.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“The basic cause of physical imbalance and disease is to lose contact with your soul, with your spiritual purpose in life.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Meditation is the most important treatment to regain balance and health. Meditation is to come in contact with your soul, with the inner silence, which is the inner source of healing and wholeness.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“Satsang with Giten was really an unforgetable evening, which has stayed with me. An evening that I have thought about quite often.”
– Evelyn Elisabeth Enström, TV-producer, Swedish Television, participant in satsang with Giten, September 1, 2016
During these satsang evenings, Giten will give an overview of the Eastern science behind the energy centers in the human body that are called chakras. It is a science that underlies traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine and the practice of kundalini yoga, among other disciplines that recognize the deep connection between mind and body.
Giten will also show how these principles apply to understanding the natural healing power of the body, mind and consciousness, how they apply to human psychological growth and maturation and the evolution of consciousness.
These satsang evenings will be especially of interest to the large group of people involved with spirtuality, meditation, health and yoga, as Giten will talk about what underlies the Kundalini Yoga approach to the human energy system. During these satsang evenings Giten will deliver the ‘esoteric science’ and understanding in the context of personal growth and transformation.
During these satsang evenings Giten will talk about the following topics:
– MEDITATION: How meditation is the most important treatment to regain balance and health. The basic cause of physical imbalance and disease are to lose contact with your soul, with your spiritual purpose in life. Meditation is to come in contact with your soul, with the inner silence, which is the inner source of healing and wholeness.
– HEALING: Reconecting with our inner silence, the inner source of healing, which activates the natural healing power of the body, mind and consciouseness.
– Understand how yoga, meditation and Ayurveda together form a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness.
– CHAKRAS: Understanding the chakra system and discover the interconnections between the chakras, physical organs and emotions. Dissolution of ego is the key to develop chakras, because ego creates the constriction of energy that prevents chakras from functioning.
– AYURVEDIC HEALING offers the wisdom of this ancient system of mind-body medicine. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest and most comprehensive systems of natural medicine. During these satsang evenings Giten will describe the foundations and principles of Ayurveda. Topics covered include diet and digestion, toxic build-up, purification therapies and the effects of the emotions and thinking on health. He will also talk about Ayurvedic treatment for all the main common diseases of the systems of the body from the digestive system to the nervous system and mind.
– HEALING OF THE HEART: PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF IMBALANCE AND DISEASE: Imbalance and physical disease are caused both by psychological, emotional and physical causes. If you are struggling with pain from the past that is preventing you from experiencing happiness in the present, now is the time to release this emotional toxicity and set yourself free. Emotional pain takes many forms: the grief of loss, overwhelming stress and anxiety, depression, job burnout, feeling stuck, heart break, regret, the inability to trust, anger, and worry about the future. In the face of difficulty, most of us do our best to cope with the situation, hold it together, and keep going, but we often end up carrying emotional pain that we don’t know how to heal or release.
Satsang with Giten is a meeting in love, truth and silence. Satsang with Giten is a direct insight and realization of being.
Satsang begins with a lecture, interactive dialogue with questions and answers and ends with silent satsang. In satsangs during the autumn a deep silence and untiy has arises in the satsang group.
This Satsang Intensive also works as a prolonged shaktipat (transmission of spiritual energy), which both creates immediate result – together with effect that becomes obvious during the coming weeks and months after the intensive. When Giten pursued an advanced training in spiritual healing in USA 1984, he was told that he had the capacity to become a seventh chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a catalyst and channel for spiritual energy from the seventh chakra through the heart. The last 30 years has meant to develop and deepen this capacity to an instrument of subtle catalytic effect, which Giten uses in this Satsang series.
Satsang with Giten gathers people from all walks of life. During the last two satsangs seekers and meditators, psychotherapists, medical doctors, nurses, ayurvedic healers and doctors, film makers from the Swedish television and musicians and music teachers have gathered.
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN, spiritual teacher and best-selling author, has more than 30 years of experience in individual counseling and in teaching awareness and meditation. He is trained in both modern psychology and in classic Eastern methods for awareness and meditation in USA, Italy, Sweden and India.
Giten experienced his first satori, his first glimpse of spiritual awakening, when he was 9 years old. This created a deep thirst and longing in his heart and being to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten has dedicated his life to teach the art of awareness and meditation. He conducts individual consultations, seminars and courses internationally. His quotes, articles and books have touched the hearts of thousands and are appearing with increasing frequency in magazines, blogs and websites.
Since he began to meditate when he was 15 years old, he has dedicated his life to the study and exploration of the inner journey in order to move out of his own way, to be in a flow, and to discover the authentic inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, the capacity to surrender to life. He does not belong to any spiritual group or tradition; he is only interested to explore what it means to live with open eyes.
Giten’s first professional passion when he was 15 years old was to become an actor. After training as an actor, he worked as an actor until he was 23 years old. Working as actor taught him a lot about life and to emphatically understand the situation and life of other people, since acting is really a spiritual occupation. It taught him about spirituality, since working as an actor means to play a role totally, while at the same time as you know deep down that you are not the role you are playing. After working as an actor for a number of years, Giten began to understand that his early passion for theatre was really an unconscious search for a spiritual discipline. When he realized this, he began to feel a thirst to work with people in a more direct way in awareness and meditation.
In 1982, when Giten was 23 years old, he was directed by the Divine presence in a trance session with the American trance chancellor Lin David Martin: “You have listened to your intuition, to your true inner voice, more than most. You have been searching for the contact with the Spirit for a long time and now it is beginning to manifest on the outer plane. You have been gifted many times in previous embodiments and now everything will come rather easy for you. I want you to put your energy into the lives of others, because you can”.
His three creative areas to express the mysteries of meditation in outer form are teaching, writing and painting. His meditative art is internationally recognized and have been nominated for the international art exhibition The Florence Biennale in Italy, which is arranged in cooperation with The United Nations.
He is author of the best-selling book in Swedish Meditationens Sång – Om meditation, relationer och andlig kreativitet (Solrosens forlag, 2001, available from Internet book store Adlibris: www.adlibris.com), and The Silent Whisperings of the Heart – An Introduction to Giten’s Approach to Life (2008, available as paperback at Internet book store Lulu.com:www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten), Presence – Working from Within. The Psychology of Being (2011, available as paperback at Internet book store Lulu:www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten), Meditation – A Yes to Life, Healing Is Pure Love, Presence – The Inner Source of Love, Truth and Wholeness and The Language of Silence – From Darkness to Light (available in paperback at Lulu.com: www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten). The last four books are also available as free e-books at the award winning book site Obooko.com).
Swami Dhyan Giten has been accepted as Goodreads author on the international book site Goodreads with 40 million users together with best-selling spiritual author Paulo Coelho, # 1 New York Best-selling author Alyson Noel and award winning author Margaret Atwood (http://www.goodreads.com/SwamiDhyanGiten).
Recommendations, quotes and discussions of Giten’s articles and books and its content are also beginning to appear with increasing frequency in magazines and on sites ranging from The Times of India, the largest daily English newspaper in the World, USA Today, the largest daily newspaper in the US, the US news site Newsblaze, Edge Life Magazine, a leading source for psychology, education and world transformation in the US, and Sentient Times Magazine to the large Internet communities MySpace.com, a large Internet community for young people, Wasteland, the American online magazine Alternative Approaches, Motivateus.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com, newsletters of American High tech companies to small discussion forums and blogs focused on spirituality, health, art and literature.
PRAKTISK INFORMATION:
TID: Ten Thursday evening, 19.00 PM – 21.00 PM. November 3, 10, 17, 24. December 1, 8, 15 2016. January 7, 14, 21 2017.
PLACE: Stockholm.
COST. 1200 SEk – 120 EUR for the whole satsang series.
REGISTRATION: Registration for the whole satsang series Before October 25 to: swami.dhyan.giten(a)gmail.com
Single satsang evenings can be booked in advance. Price: 150 SEK – 15 EUR.
INFORMATION:
Read more about satsang with Giten on The Giten Blog:
www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
SATSANG WEEKEND:
DIVINE HEALING
9-11 december 2016
– The Art of Spiritual Healing
Discover the natural healing power of the mind,
b ody and consciousness
September 3, 2016
Satsang with Giten, September 8, 2016
SATSANG WITH GITEN
– A MEETING IN LOVE, TRUTH AND SILENCE
September 8, 19.00 PM – 21.00 PM in Stockholm
“Satsang with Giten is very powerful.”
– Toshen, participant in satsang with Giten, September 1, 2016
Open evening with lecture, interactive dialogoue with questions and answers and silence.
Satsang with Giten is a direct insight and realization of being.
Satsang with Giten gathers people from all walks of life. During the last two satsangs seekers and meditators, psychotherapists, medical doctors, nurses, ayurvedic healers and doctors, film makers from the Swedish television and musicians and music teachers have gathered.
During the satsang, September 1, a little puppy dog also attended, who lovingly bit Giten’s toe during satsang.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
TIME: Open Satsang evenings, 19.00 PM – 21.00 PM, September 8, 15, 22, 29. October 6, 13
PLACE: Stockholm.
REGISTRATION: Single Satsang evenings 150 SEK.
INFORMATION:
swami.dhyan.giten(a)gmail.com
Read more about satsang with Giten on The Giten Blog:
www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
August 24, 2016
Swami Dhyan Giten: A Glimpse of Wholeness
A GLIMPSE OF WHOLENESS
“I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large windows.
Outside the white snow flakes silently singled down towards a snowclad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape.
I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and a longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
August 21, 2016
LIGHT ON THE PATH: Spiritual teacher and best-selling author Swami Dhyan Giten answers your questions on meditation and spiritual growth on Goodreads
LIGHT ON THE PATH
Spiritual teacher and best-selling author Swami Dhyan Giten answers your questions on meditation and spiritual growth on Goodreads, the world’s largest book site with 45 million users.
Ask Giten a question and read Giten’s previous answers on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/6152802.Swami_Dhyan_Giten/questions
August 19, 2016
THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE WORLD’S LARGEST ENGLISH DAILY NEWSPAPER, QUOTES GITEN
THE TIMES OF INDIA
THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE WORLD’S LARGEST ENGLISH DAILY NEWSPAPER, QUOTES GITEN
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people i need to meet, to the situations i need to experience, and to the places i need to be.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
Read more on Times of India:
http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/15283062.cms
Satsang with Giten: Hassidism, Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, August 11, 2016
SATSANG
WITH
GITEN:
THE ART OF DYING
– HASSIDISM, KABBALAH AND JEWISH MYSTICISM
Satsang with Giten, August 11, 2016
“I was totally shaken when I came home after satsang with Giten.”
– Toshen, participant in satsang, August 18, 2016
We will be talking about Hassidism, but first a few basic remarks as an introduction.
One has to come in immediate contact with truth, heart to heart. Nothing should be allowed between the two: your heart and reality.
Once you understand who you are, once you go deep into your emptiness, and you are not scared, once you accept the inner death, you have arrived at what Buddha calls “nirvana”.
When you enter within yourself, you will feel like you are entering into a space where you are going to be lost – just as a drop of water entering the ocean is lost.
You will be lost; that is the fear.
That is why you become afraid of death.
Entry into your being is always like death.
It is a crucifixion, it is a cross.
Only very rare and courageous souls, who can take the risk of being lost, arrive.
You have to lose yourself to gain.
Once you are ready to enter into the emptiness, suddenly the fear disappears.
The same energy becomes joy and celebration.
You can dance because that which appeared as emptiness was just an interpretation of the mind.
It was not empty.
Once you enter into your inner being, the mind cannot understand.
If you move withinwards and you come across the inner emptiness,you will die.
That is the meaning of Jesus crucifixion and resurrection.
He is resurrected to a new life.
About Hassidism: The word “hasid” comes from the Hebrew word, which means “pure” or grace.
The whole standpoint of Hassidism is based on grace. It is not that “you” do someting – life is already happening, you just be silent, passive, alert, receiving.
God comes through his grace, not through your effort.
Hassidism believes in life, in joy.
Hassidism is one of the religions in the world, which is life-affirmative.
It has no reunciation in it.
Rather, you have to celebrate life.
The founder of Hassidism, Baal-Shem, is reported to have said: “I have come to teach a new way. It is not fasting and penenace, but a joy in God.”
Hassidism is the heart of Judaism. Hassidism is the mystical tradition of Judaism.
The Hasids loves life, tries to experience life.
That very experience start giving you a balance. And in that balance, some day, when you are really balanced, neither leaning on this side nor leaning on that side, when you are exactly in the middle, you transcend.
The middle is the beyond. If you really want to know what existence is, it is neither in life nor in death. Life is one extreme, death is another extreme. It is just exactly in the middle, where neither life is nor death is, where one is simply unborn, deathless.
In that moment of balance, grace descends.
Hassidism is to find the true joy of life. Hassidism is not a path of meditation, it is a path of love, joy and prayer.
The whole approach of Hassidism is not to choose any extreme, just to remain in the middle, not getting identified with either – just remaining free and joyously enjoying both.
If life comes, enjoy life, if death comes, enjoy death.
Hassidism teaches life in community.
It says that man is not an island, man is not an ego.
Man should live in a community.
Life is in love, life is in flow, in giving, taking and sharing you grow.
To live in a community is to live in love, to live in a community is to live in love, to live in a community is to live in a committment, caring for others.
Love more and you will be more.
There are many religions which are very self-centered, they only think of the self. They only think about how I should become liberated.
Hassdism says that the best way to drop the ego is to live in a community.
It is live with people, to be concerned with people, with their joy, with their sadness, with their happiness, with their life, and with their death.
Create a concern for others, be involved.
Hassidism uses community life as a device.
Hassidism celebrates the small things of life – eating, drinking – and then everything takes the quality of prayer.
The ordinaries of life is no longer ordinary. It is suffused with divine grace.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
August 15, 2016
“Giten is divine heart from heaven”
“Giten is a divine heart from heaven.”
– Dileep Arunbhavan Abraham, founder of Ayurveda Medical Collage and Ayurveda International, India
