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October 5, 2015
Satsang with Giten: “WOW! It was much Buddha”
“WOW! It was much Buddha.”
– Deva Emanuel, exclaimed after Satsang with Giten, October 1, 2015, in Stockholm, when the satsang went into the unknown, into the beyond, into the silence and emptiness without barrier.
Satsang with Giten on Buddha starts November 5, in Stockholm.
October 2, 2015
Swami Dhyan Giten’s new book “The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ, the Man, the Mystic and the Rebel” is now available at international book site Lulu
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN’S NEW BOOK
“THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE: ON JESUS CHRIST, THE MAN, THE MYSTIC AND THE REBEL”
IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AT INTERNATIONAL BOOK SITE LULU
“The religious words that Giten formulate can make anyone mentally stunned. These words create an inner silence and a deep spiritual wonder for life. Giten has shaken me. I hope the readers also discover his greatness.”
Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics
“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
This book is a compilation of Swami Dhyan Giten’s lectures on Jesus Christ during satsang between May – July, 2015, in Stockholm.
Giten was a disciple of Jesus in a former life.
In this book Giten talks about the beauty and wisdom of the words of Jesus.
Giten talks about Jesus, the Man, Jesus, the Mystic and Jesus, the Rebel. He makes a clear distinction between Jesus Christ and the religion that has been built around him – Christianity.
Through talking about the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John, Giten reintroduces Jesus as the man, the mystic and the compromiseless rebel, who are filled with love and compassion. Jesus becomes alive in a new and dynamic way and not in the way that Jesus has been presented to us by the theologians and the priests.
Giten talks about love, joy, trust, acceptance, healing, truth, the need to serve, the difference between being and ego, wisdom, silence and God.
For the first time, we really feel the laughter, passion, silence and celebration of life in Jesus, which shows us the deeper meaning, the timeless relevance.
This book is a a joy and a delight for those in love with the words of Jesus.
In-between the lectures on Jesus Christ, Giten answer questions on spiritual growth from seekers of truth.
Giten has also complemented the lectures on Jesus with The Art of Living, which includes practical meditation exercises.
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Paperback, 296 pages
Read excerpts from the book on The Giten Blog: www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
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September 17, 2015
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN’S NEW BOOK “THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE: ON JESUS CHRIST, THE MAN, THE MYSTIC AND THE REBEL” WILL BE AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN’S NEW BOOK “THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE:
ON JESUS CHRIST, THE MAN, THE MYSTIC AND THE REBEL” WILL BE AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER
This book is a compilation of lectures on Jesus Christ from satsang with Giten from May to June, 2015 in Stockholm.
In this book Giten talks about the beauty and wisdom of the words of Jesus.
Giten talks about Jesus, the Man, Jesus, the Mystic and Jesus, the Rebel. He makes a clear distinction between Jesus Christ and the religion that has been built around him – Christianity.
Through talking about the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John, Giten reintroduces Jesus as the man, the mystic and the compromiseless rebel, who are filled with love and compassion. Jesus becomes alive in a new and dynamic way and not in the way that Jesus has been presented to us by the theologians and the priests.
Giten talks about love, joy, trust, acceptance, healing, truth, the need to serve, the difference between being and ego, wisdom, silence and God.
For the first time, we really feel the laughter, passion, silence and celebration of life in Jesus, which shows us the deeper meaning, the timeless relevance.
Giten was a disciple of Jesus in a past life, where he was thrown to the lions in Colisseum in Rome.
This book is a a joy and a delight for those in love with the words of Jesus.
In-between the lectures on Jesus, Giten answers questions on meditation and spiritual growth from seekers on truth.
“Giten is a friend to many people.”
– Eric Rolf, international lecturer and course leader, author of Soul Medicine and former consultant to John Lennon
“The religious words that Giten formulate can make anyone mentally stunned. These words create an inner silence and a deep spiritual wonder for life. Giten has shaken me. I hope the readers also discover his greatness.”
Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics
“I have met many spiritual teachers, but the meeting with Giten was special.”
– Malini, PhD, Doctor in Religion, University of 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
“Giten gave me life back. An awakening. I have seen the beauty in life, and I know that this is the way.
I like Giten a lot. He is fantastic. The presence and impact he has on people. His wisdom and humor.”
– Prem Mukta, Artist Management and Music Organizer, Stockholm
“Since I began to study with Giten, a new dimension of awareness has developed step by step, which has transformed my whole life.”
Deva Emanuel, musician and student to Giten since 6 years
The book will be available in October as eBook and in paperback on international book site Lulu:
Read excerpts from the book on The Giten Blog: www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
September 6, 2015
Swami Dhyan Giten: Intuition, the existential language
THE INVISIBLE SOURCE
Swami Dhyan Giten
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word “in-tuition” means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.
The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.
If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.
Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do – you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons – you just know.
You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
September 3, 2015
Giten on Jesus Christ: Sending out the Disciples
Giten on Jesus Christ:
Sending out the Disciples
An excerpt from the book “The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ: The Man, the Mystic and the Rebel”, which Giten is currently writing.
The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
“I did a yoga course, but I noticed how little love and joy it was compared to Satsang with Giten.”
– Prem Mukta, Stockholm
Luke 10
1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY DISCIPLES AND HE SENT THEM TWO AND TWO BEFORE HIS FACE INTO EVERY CITY AND PLACE; WHITHER HE HIMSELF WOULD COME
God is here and now.
God is not something outside you, God is within you.
God is the innermost core of existence.
That is what Jesus means with: “Repent, for the kingdom of God is near”.
God is not separate from the creation. He is one with the creation.
When you understand this, your life becomes a prayer.
When you understand this, you will understand that existence is a family. You will understand that life is togetherness.
When we discover our authentic inner being, the kingdom of God, we understand that everybody is a messenger. We discover that the divine source expands, and we spread love to all with whom we interact.
Jesus sent out his disciples two and two, so that they did not have to go alone. They went two and two in friendship, in love, in trust, so that they could help each other.
THEREFORE SAID HE UNTO THEM, THE HARVEST TRULY IS GREAT, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW
The harvest is great, but there are not many laborers.
People are deaf and blind.
Somebody like Jesus comes, and you do not want to listen.
It has always been like this.
Rather than listening to Jesus, people get so jealous of Jesus, that they crucified him.
Only very aware and understanding people will listen to Jesus.
GO YOUR WAYS: BEHOLD I SEND YOU FORTH AS LAMBS AMONG THE WOLVES
Jesus knows that he is sending his disciples into a dangerous world.
People will not understand what they say, they do not want to listen, and they cling to their ideas and their tradition.
Jesus knows that trust is to be attacked. He knows that love is to be attacked.
CARRY NEITHER PURSE, NOR SHOES, AND SALUTE NO MAN BY THE WAY
AND INTO WHATSOVER HOUSE YE ENTER, FIRST SAY, PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE
Jesus says that the love and the truth can create troubles for you.
“Do not carry purse, do not wear shoes, go barefoot. Do not salute no man on the road”.
Be ordinary, be simple, be egoless.
Jesus says bring peace to the house, because only in that peaceful milieu can the message can delievered.
Create a spiritual vibration of peace, spread the feeling of peace, and if you are really feeling it, it will spread.
When somebody comes to see you, settle within yourself, Become silent. And you will see a change in the man.
We are joined together by our hearts. We exist as parts of one heart. That heart is God.
If you create a feeling of peace, it will spread around you.
If your gift of peace is accepted, it will be good. If it is not accepted, if you gift is rejcted, it is also good.
The peace will still shower on you.
HE THAT HEARETH YOU, HEARETH ME, AND HE THAT DESPISETH YOU, DESPISETH ME:
AND HE THAT DESPISETH ME DESPISETH HIM THAT SENT ME
Jesus says: If people hear you, they hear me.
And if they hear me, they hear the one who has sent me.
September 2, 2015
Comment on Satsang with Giten
“I did a yoga course, but I noticed how little love and joy it was compared to Satsang with Giten.”
– Prem Mukta, Stockholm
Giten on Jesus Christ: Prayer and Meditation
Giten on Jesus Christ: Prayer and Meditation
An excerpt from the book “The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ: The Man, the Mystic and the Rebel”, which Giten is currently writing.
The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
Matthew 14
AND HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN APART TO PRAY
This was always the practice of Jesus when he would move into the masses, the crowd, afterwards he would go alone into deep prayer and meditation.
Why did he do this? If you have been meditating, you will understand. You will understand that once you start meditating, a very fragile and delicate quality of consciousness is born in you.
A flower of the unknown, of the beyond, starts opening, which is delicate.
And whenever you move into the crowd, you lose something. Whenever you come back from the crowd, you come back lesser than you had gone. Something has been lost, some contact has been lost. The crowd pulls you down, it has a gravitation of it’s own.
You may not feel it if you live on the same plane of consciousness. Then there is no problem, then you have nothing to lose.
In fact, when you live in the crowd, on the same plane, alone you feel very uneasy. When you are with people, you feel good and happy. But alone, you feel sad, your aloneness is not aloneness. It is loneliness, you miss the other.
You do not find yourself in the aloneness, you simply miss the other.
When you are alone, you are not alone, beacuse you are not there.
Only the desire to be with others is there – that is what loneliness is. Always remember the distinction between aloneness and loneliness.
Aloneness is a peak experience – loneliness is a valley.
Aloneness has light in it, loneliness is dark.
Loneliness is when you desire others; aloneness is when you enjoy yourself.
When Jesus would move into the masses, into the crowd, he would tell his disciples to got to the other shore of the lake, and he would move into total aloneness. Not even the disciples were allowed to be with him. This was a constant practice with him.
Whenever you go into the crowd, you are infected by it.
You need a higher altitude to purify yourself, you need to be alone so that you can become fresh again. You need to be alone with yourself, so that you become together again. You need to be alone, so that you become centered and rooted in yourself again.
Whenever you move with others, they push you off centre.
AND WHEN THE EVENING WAS COME, HE WAS THERE ALONE
Nothing is said about his prayer in the Bible, just the word “prayer”.
Before God or before existence, you simply need to be vulnerable – that is prayer.
You are no to say something.
So when you go into prayer, don’t start saying something.
It will all be desires, demands and deep complaints to God.
And prayer with complaints is no prayer, a prayer with deep gratitude is prayer.
There is no need to say something, you can just be silent.
Hence nothing is said about what Jesus did in his aloneness. It simply says “apart to pray”.
He went apart, he became alone.
That is what prayer is, to be alone, where the other is not felt, where the other is not standing between you and existence.
When God’s breeze can pass througn you, unhindered.
It is a cleansing experience. It revejunates your spirit.
To be with God simply means to be alone.
You can miss the point, if you start thinking about God, then you are not alone.
If you start talking to God, then in imagination you have created the other.
And then you God is a projection, it will be a projection of your father.
A prayer is not to say something. It is to be silent, open, available.
And there is no need to believe in God, because that too is a projection.
The only need is to be alone, to be capable of being alone – and immediately you are with God.
Whenever you are alone, you are with God.
Whenever you are alone, God is.
God is, and you are not, and there is prayer.
Prayer is the fragrance that arises when you are ready to be alone.
When you are not afraid to be alone, prayer arises.
You dissolve, boundaries disappar, you are no more an island, you have become part of the continent God is.
AND WHEN THE EVENING WAS COME, HE WAS THERE ALONE
To be alone needs preparation.
Jesus throw away all impressions that he had gathered from the masses, the crowd, during the whole day.
By the evening he was alone, by the evening he came to a point where no thought stirred. He came to a point when the flame of consciousness was there without any smoke.
By the evening, he became centered, he went into a deep rest within himself – he returned home.
August 30, 2015
Giten on Love
Love means to realise that we are one with life.
Real love means to realise that we are one with the other person, one with nature,
and one with the trees, the stones, the earth and the blue sky.
It means to realise that all of life is God.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
August 27, 2015
Giten on Jesus Christ: Sermon of the Mounts
Giten on Jesus Christ:
Sermon of the Mounts
An excerpt from the book “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and the Life”, which Giten is currently writing.
The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
Matthew 5
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM
The Gospels starts in a very beautiful way.
The Bible is the book of the books. The meaning of the word “bible” is – the book.
It is the most precious and beautiful document that humanity has. These statements are the most beautiful ever made.
That is why it is called “The Testament”, because Jesus has become the witness of God.
While Buddha’s words are refined and philosophic, Jesus words are poetic, plain and simple.
The beginning of the Gospel of Matthew states that 42 generations have passed from Abraham, the founder of Judaism, to Jesus.
Jesus is the flowering, the fulfillment, of these 42 generations.
The whole history that has preceded Jesus is the fulfillment in him.
Jesus is the fruit, the growth, the evolution, of those 42 generations.
The path of Jesus is the path of love. Jesus moved among ordinary people, while Buddha – whose path is the path of meditation, intelligence and understanding – moved with sophisticated people, who was already on the spiritual path,
Jesus is the culmination of the whole Jewish consciousness, while Buddha was the culmination of the Hindu consciousness and Socrates was the culmination of the Greek consciousness.
But the strange things is that the tradition rejected both Jesus, Buddha and Socrates.
All the prophets of the Jews that had preceded jesus was preapring the ground for him to come.
That is why John the Baptist was saying: “I am nothing compared to the person that I am preparing the way.”
But when Jesus came, the etablishment, the religious leaders and the priests, started feeling offended.
His presence made the religious leaders look small.
Hence Jesus was crucified.
And this has always been so, beacuase of the sleep and the stupidity of humanity.
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM.
The multitudes, the masses, the crowd, is the lowest state of consciousness. It is a deep ignorance and sleep.
If you want to relate and communicate with the masses, you have to come down to their level.
That is why whenever you go into the masses, the crowd, you start to feel suffocated.
This suffocation is physical and psychological, beacuse you relate to people, who functions from a very low state of consciousness.
They pull you down and you become physically and psychologically tired and drained.
That is why a need for meditation and aloneness arises.
There is a practice in the life of Jesus that he noves into the crowds of people, but after a few months he goes to the mountains. He goes away from the crowd, to be with God.
When you are alone, you are with God.
To relate to the masses brings you down to their level of consciousness, but only in the presence of God, you can fly.
With the crowd, you can not fly, you become crippled, and the masses will not tolerate if you do not live according to them, according to their level of consciousness.
To be able to work with the masses, to be able to help them, you have to relate to them according to their level fo consciousness – and this is tiring and draining.
Both Jesus and Buddha moved to the mounatins, to a lonely place, just to be themselves, and to be with God to regain their vitality to be able to come back to the masses where people are thristy.
The montain is where Jesus do not need to think about the masses, where he can forget the mind and the body.
In that moment of aloneness and meditation, one simply is.
This is the inner being, the source of life.
And when you are full again, you can share again.
AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM.
To talk to the masses and to talk to disciples is two very different things.
To talk to the crowd is to talk to people, who are indifferent.
The crowd is resisting, defensive and argumentative.
To talk to disciples means to talk to people, who have a basic thirst. It means that they are not defensive, they are open to listen to the heart of truth.
AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING.
Jesus escaped into the mountains from the crowd, but he did not escape from the disciples.
He was available to the disciples.
In his aloneness, Jesus is with God. And through Jesus, the disciples can feel God.
The closer the disciple come to Jesus, the more they will see that Jesus is a silence and emptiness through which God can sing.
And the more the disciple himself will become an emptiness, he will also be able to help other people.
AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING.
BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
This is the most fundamental statement of Jesus.
With this statement, Jesus has said everything.
The “poor in spirit” is exactly what Buddha means with the term Shunyatta – “emptiness”, no-self, nothingness.
It is when the ego disappears, and you are a nobody, a silence.
If you are a nobody, if you are nothing, you are God.
August 20, 2015
Giten on Sweden: “Sweden will not walk in the front line in developing the new man, the new consciousness for the 21st century.”
GITEN ON SWEDEN
In a recent poll, the rasist and fascistic party, is now the largest party in Sweden. It is now larger than the Swedish Socialdemocrats and the Conservative party. Recently Giten said the following about Sweden:
“Sweden is not one of the countries that will walk in the front line in developing the new man, the new consciousness for the 21st century.
Sweden consists of separate minds that do not allow each other to grow, and whose focus are to mantain status quo, which creates a country without joy.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
