Swami Dhyan Giten's Blog, page 43
October 19, 2013
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten in Stockholm: Only Truth Remains
Only Truth Remains
SATSANG
with
I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
During the fifth Satsang with Giten in Stockholm on Thursday, October, 17, Giten lectured about the fifth step of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment.
The fifth step of Vedanta, of sadhana, of spiritual discipline, is Ego disappears, all desires disappears, the outer world disappears – only truth remains.
“On the fifth step, the mind and the worldly desires of the seeker disappears – and only truth remains. A seeker on the fifth step appears introverted, tired and sleepy. On the fifth step, the seeker appears like a zombie, the seeker appears to be tired and drowsy even if he performs his daily activities. It can be difficult to function in the world. This step is a birth of a new consciousness, a new being. It is to fall into your original nature, your original being. The fifth step can be described as eyes without bottom, eyes as deep as existence itself.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“The fifth step belongs to the dreaming consciousness. There are 4 levels of consciousness:
1. Waking consciousness, mind, the surface of the personality
2. Dreaming consciousness, mind
3. Sleeping consciousness, unconscious being
4. Turiya, the fourth state, conscious being, samadhi, enlightenment.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The lecture was followed by 40 minutes of Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation.
“On the fifth step, only truth remains. Truth can be described as that which never changes, as opposed to Maya, illusion, dream, separation from life, which is that which always changes, for example the mind, the body and worldly desires.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
During the autumn 2013, there is an opportunity for open Satsang with Giten during Thursday evenings in Stockholm.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2013 on Facebook:
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October 17, 2013
Swami Dhyan Giten: God Is Everywhere
God Is Everywhere
Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean.
In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence.
Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of everything. We find God in a flower, in a tree, in the eyes of a child or in a playful dog.
Through discovering our inner being, we discover that we are also part of the flower, the child or the dog. We realize that God is everywhere.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
from the book The Language of Silence: From Darkness to Light
(available at international book store Lulu.com)
October 14, 2013
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten in Stockholm: Life Is One
SATSANG
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The fragrance of Satsang with Giten on Thursday evenings in Stockholm is spreading, and people are coming to the Satsang in mysterious ways.
It feels like Existence has already taken over the Satsang with Giten. It feels like the method for Satsang is to move out of your own way, to say “yes” and to flow with what happens.
Marie Soderberg, a psychotherapist and a participant in Satsang with Giten, commented: “Good that existence has taken over – if it has not done that from the beginning.”
During the fourth Satsang with Giten in Stockholm on Thursday, October, 10, Giten lectured about the fourth step of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment.
The fourth step of Vedanta, of sadhana, of spiritual discipline, is Non-duality, Only One Existence – One Being, One Existence, One Consciousness, One Truth.
The first three steps of Vedantas’s 7 steps to enlightenment is the masculine phase, while the fourth step is the first step of the feminine phase.
“The first three steps of Vedanta’s seven steps to enlightenment is the masculine phase. It is the phase of doing, effort, ego, commitment and will.
The first three steps are:
1. The oceanic feeling, heart, body, feeling God in everywhere in human beings, animals, flowers, stones and nature. Many seekers has experienced this oceanic feeling of oneness, which have created a longing and thirst in their heart and being to come back to this blissful and effortless way of being one with life.
2. Thinking, contemplation, meditation, training
the mind to be focused. Only a focused mind can
disappear.
3. Non-attachment, desirelessness, becoming
aware about desires and becoming the inner witness.
The fourth step is the first step of the feminine phase, of non-doing, of effortlessness, of allowing. The fourth step is about letting go, about not creating hindrances to our spiritual growth. It is a kind of death, not of the physical body, but of the ego.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“The first three steps has to be practiced, the first three steps has to be so deeply rooted in your being through your effort – and then the fourth step happens by itself. Suddenly you realize that there is non-duality, that only one exists, one being, one existence, one truth. You realize that life is one, that the sky is one”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The lecture was followed by 40 minutes of Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation.
“The feminine phase is about flowing with the river of consciousness, to flow with the Ocean of consciousness, to flow with Samadhi. One day the river will reach the ocean.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
During the autumn 2013, there will be an opportunity for open Satsang with Giten during Thursday evenings in Stockholm.
During this evening, Giten was also invited to continue with Satsang in Stockholm during the spring 2014.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2013 on Facebook:
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October 8, 2013
Swami Dhyan Giten: Love Is Not An Exclusive Relationship With Another Person
Toshen, a beloved friend of Giten since many lives wears the Missoni designer scarf that she received as a gift from Giten
“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.”
The Silent Whisperings of the Heart – An Introduction to Giten’s Approach to Life (Available at Lulu.com)
October 5, 2013
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten: Non-attachment and desirelessness
Satsang with Giten:
NON-ATTACHMENT
AND DESIRELESSNESS
“A Strong Session”
Emanuel Sjoberg,
musician and student to Giten since 5 years
SATSANG
with
During the third Satsang with Giten in Stockholm on Thursday, October, 3, Giten lectured about the third step of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment. Emanuel Sjoberg, musician and student to Giten since 5 years, commented on the lecture that words can really be healing.
The third step of Vedanta, of sadhana, of spiritual discipline, is non-attachment and desirelessness as a basic step to enlightenment. Non-attachment is a basic step for a seeker of love and truth.
“ The mind has the capacity to become attached to things and to people, for example sex, feelings, family, power, money, fame, love, relationships and spirituality.
A wavering mind can not get non-attached. Only a non-wavering mind can get non-attached. Ordinarily the mind is wavering and moves from one thought to another.
Concentration means that the mind has to be trained to retain one thought, one object, for longer periods of time.
Unawareness is attachment and desire, awareness is non-attachment and desirelessness.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“The two first steps of Vedanta is a preparation to be with somebody who knows, it is a preparation to be with a teacher of meditation. Before you have reached the third step, you will not be ripe to be with a teacher in meditation.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“The third step Non-attachment includes karma. Karma is the actions of the past, which is accumulated in the mind. Karma can both be positive and negative merit. The karma can be of three qualities: 1. Karma that is activated during the day 2. Karma that is activated during one life and 3. The accumulated karma of all previous lives. This accumulated karma governs the circle of birth and death.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The lecture was followed by 30 minutes of Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation where a deep presence and silence is developing. “A strong session”, concluded the participant Emanuel Sjoberg.
“On the third step, you begin to get glimpses of the authentic inner being. You begin to get glimpses of enlightenment, which in Japan is called satori.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
During the autumn 2013, there will be an opportunity for open Satsang with Giten in Stockholm.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2012 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/628880020478919/
September 27, 2013
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten in Stockholm: That Which Is Important in Life
Satsang with Giten:
That Which Is Important in
Life
SATSANG
with
During the second Satsang with Giten in Stockholm on Thursday, September, 26, Giten lectured about the second step of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment.
The second step focus on meditation, understanding the mind and on understanding what is important in life, on learning to distinguish between what is essential and non-essential, what is loving and what is not loving, what is true and what is not true, in our lives. This is the basic step for a sincere seeker of love and truth.
“The step of of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment is right listening, right remembering, right conduct, right contemplation and right meditation . The second step is about understanding the mind, and realizing that we are not the mind and the body.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“When the mind is totally silent, then you can listen. Right listening is to silence the inner monologue, to silence the constant inner chattering. When a constant inner chattering is going on, you can not listen. The first step of right listening is to be silent and empty.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“Right remembering means to throw the rubbish out, and only keep the essential, the true, the real. It is about learning to distinguish between the essential and the non-essential, to learn to distinguish between what is real and what is not real, to distinguish between what is truth and what is not truth and to learn to distinguish between what is loving behaviour and what is not loving behaviour. It is the first step for a sincere seeker of love and truth”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“Right conduct is about learning how to behave rightly. When you behave wrongly, your energy moves in wrong directions. Right behaviour means to be always loving, blissful, in your behaviour – and not unnecessarily hurt other people. Hurting others people just means that you are hurting yourself.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The second step of Vedanta also includes right contemplation and right meditation, and Giten also lectured about what meditation is.
“Right meditation happens in the moments when the thoughts stop. It happens when the mind stops. Meditation is no-mind. Right meditation means a moment when the mind ceases, which will become Samadhi, enlightenment.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The lecture was followed by 40 minutes of Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation where a deep presence and silence is developing.
During the autumn 2013, there will be an opportunity for open Satsang with Giten in Stockholm.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2012 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/628880020478919/
September 23, 2013
Premiere for Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten in Stockholm
PREMIERE FOR SATSANG
WITH
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
IN STOCKHOLM:
THE OCEANIC FEELING AND
THE MOMENTS OF
ENLIGHTENMENT
SA TSANG
with
During the premiere on September, 19, of Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten during 10 Thursday evenings in Stockholm, Giten lectured about the first step of Vedanta’s 7 steps of to enlightenment.
“The first step of Vedanta’s 7 steps to enlightenment is unity, heart, love and trust. It means to live in the oceanic feeling, to see and feel the unity with people, animals, flowers and nature. The heart is the inner compass in life. The heart is the inner source of love, truth and wisdom. The heart always leads right.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Giten also lectured about the inner process of Satsang, which can lead to direct insight and experience of being, a glimpse of enlightenment.
“The inner process of Satsang is the moments of silence, of emptiness, that arises between two moments. In these moments, we are in the same state as a person who have achieved samadhi, who have become enlightened. These moments of silence and emptiness give us the first glimpse of samadhi, of enlightenment.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The lecture was followed by 40 minutes of Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation.
During the autumn 2013, there will be an opportunity for open Satsang with Giten in Stockholm.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2012 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/628880020478919/
September 17, 2013
Comments on Giten
Comments on Giten
“I am deeply impressed by your profeties. Such a clear sighted spirituality in combination with a historic insight – is very rare.
Furthermore, you do not walk in fear!
- Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics, consultant, researcher in climate change, The Swedish think tank Skogsa
September 16, 2013
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten in Stockholm: Honey and Red Roses
HONEY AND RED ROSES
- GITEN HELD HIS FIRST
INFORMAL SATSANG WITH
STUDENTS ON SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER, 14
SATSANG
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“When I sit with Giten, everything becomes so clear.”
Emanuel Sjogren, musician and student of Giten since 5 years
Giten received honey and magnificent red roses when he held his first informal Satsang on Saturday September, 14, with students, who are musicians.
When Giten went through an advanced training in spiritual healing in USA 1985, he was told that he had the capacity to become a seven chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a catalyst for spiritual energy from the seventh chakra through the heart. The last 30 years has meant to develop and deepen this ability to a subtle instrument of catalytic effect, which he uses in Satsang.
During this Satsang with student who are musicians, Giten described Satsang as music.
“Satsang is like music. Music and
meditation are really inseparable.
Music talks directly to the heart, and
when the music is born out of
meditation, it can give the listener a
taste of God. Music is the language
of God.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
During the autumn 2013, there will be a possibility for Satsang with Giten in Stockholm.
Read more about open Satsang with Giten during the autumn 2013 in Swedish on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/428252843958767/?fref=ts
August 31, 2013
Swami Dhyan Giten: The Silent Revolution of the Heart – The Challenge for the 21st Century
Photo: Emanuel Sjögren
“Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts,
which is unacceptable in the 21st century.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Swami Dhyan Giten: Light on the Path
Swami Dhyan Giten answers your questions on meditation and spiritual growth.
Light on the Path is an invitation, which can bring light on your path to inner awakening. It is an invitation, which can help you to discover the inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, the boundless and unlimited source of creativity, both in relation to ourselves, in relation to other people, in relation to creativity and in relation to Existence.
Your question will be published in Giten’s Newsletter, The Giten Blog and Giten’s spiritual blog on The Times of India. Your questions will be answered on these pages depending on when when Existence is ready to respond and the amount of questions.
You can send your questions to Giten on the following adress: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com
The third question is presented below.
Question 3.
The world seems to be going under. What can we do to save the world?
Peter
THE SILENT REVOLUTION OF THE HEART
– The Challenge for the 21 st Century
- From fear to love, from darkness to light and from
separation to wholeness
Right now it seems like the world is crumbling, and there is chaos all over the world. But the change from the old world order, from the old level of consciousness of ego, power and control is happening, and it creates the silent revolution of the heart, it creates the change to the new level of consciousness of the heart.
Right now, the dark and destructive people of the world, who tries to hold on the old world order of ego, power and control, are trying to start another war in Syria. By lying, they try to manipulate the world into supporting another war – like they did in Iraq. The truth is that they have themselves created the conflict in Syria, and the so-called “rebels” in Syria is CIA-agents – and now they try to use this situation to create another war.
The challenge for the 21st century is The Silent Revolution of the Heart. It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.
The Silent Revolution of the Heart is an inner revolution from fear to love, from darkness to light and from separation to wholeness.
In society today there exists a deep split between the inner and outer world, between intellect and intuition, between male and female qualities, between rest and activity and between outer knowledge and inner wisdom. There is a rapid technological development in the society, but we seem to forget the most important factor: our self.
Humanity as a whole is in-between power and the heart in its psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. The next step for humanity as a whole is to realize that real power is love and compassion.
The power chakra is the centre of the ego, the separated sense of “I”. The power chakra is about control, power and dominance over other people. A person who is on the development level of the power chakra wants to change other people, but he does not want to change himself.
Ordinary relationships are often power relationships, which is a fight and struggle between the partners needs and mine. Often the partner in a power relationship has the same strength to develop the power chakra.
The society is created out of the ego, and the need of the ego to create a hierarchy with power, status, respect, position, norms, roles and conformity. Many people in the West live in the power chakra, and are occupied with competing with others, to prove that they are somebody important, and finding their place in the hierarchy.
During the 20th Century has the psychological development level of humanity been on the awareness level of the power chakra? The focus of humanity has been on power, dominance, position, money and control over energy resources. We are technologically developed and this technology governs the development of the society, but this technology is at the same time destroying the earth. Energy resources are also a distinguishing theme in the power balance between countries.
Acting aggressively has its roots in fear, judgments and insecurity. Violence and aggressiveness is about control and dominance over another person. To judge and to be loving is two sides of the same coin. Judgments about another person are really about yourself. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our hearts opens. The heart is a healer that transforms fear to love, judgments to acceptance and separation to wholeness. The heart heals.
The 21st century means an inner awakening. It means a time to grow up. Many people talk about spirituality, meditation and inner development but it does not seem to change their lives. Our spiritual development depends on our commitment to our own development. We can use our free will to take on the challenge of life to grow or we can choose not to grow. This is the freedom that life gives us and it our own responsibility, but it seems that it is few people that accept life’s challenge to grow.
The 21st century represents a choice between the separation of ego and the vision of the heart. The silent revolution of the heart is a shift in human consciousness from the short-sighted perspective of the ego of “me” and “mine” to the focus of the heart on love and the needs of the other. It is a shift in consciousness from the short-sighted separation of the ego to the vision of the heart.
When we follow the way of the ego, the path of endless desires, it leads to struggle, conflict, exhaustion and separation from the Whole. The way of the heart is about learning to listen to our heart, to our inner source of love, joy, truth and wisdom. It is to be in a deep harmony with Existence.
When our heart is closed it creates an isolated and lonely feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me”, “nobody cares about me” and “life is a struggle”, which makes us not see the love that is all around us.
A silent revolution of the heart happens when we start to care about another person, and it is a joy to put the needs of the other person before our own needs. It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to develop the sensitivity and awareness that makes us care about another person. The heart operates from the premises: I am responsible and only love works.
Love is to eat pizza with our beloved partner even though we hate pizza.
Our heart is the door to unconditional love both for ourselves and others. Our heart is really always open, but our judgments about ourselves and others keep it closed. When we stop judging ourselves and others, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love and understanding. It means to learn to love everything that we find within ourselves.
We have been taught to love others, but not to love ourselves. But how can we love others without loving ourselves? The ABC of love is that we first need to learn to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.
Trust is a prerequisite for love. Without trust, love is without depth. It is like a plastic flower, instead of an alive, fresh and fragrant rose. Even if some people will let us down and make us sad and disappointed, it is no reason to let it undermine our basic trust in life. It is better to allow some people to let us down than not allow our basic trust in life to develop. Many people are so sleeping and unconscious that they really do not know what they are doing. They make us disappointed even if they do not really mean to. Even if we feel hurt, disillusioned and disappointed with people, see if you can give them love and understanding. A criterion for spiritual growth is that we begin to give love, rather than needing love.
Exactly as the rhythm of in-breathes and out-breathes of the physical body, the heart has also two poles: to give love and to receive love. Certain people are easier to give love to and other people are easier to be open to receive love. But to allow our love to become whole, we need to learn both to give love and to receive love.
Animals are great teachers in friendship and unconditional love. One of my course participants commented in a course, “I prefer animals before people, because animals cannot hurt me in the same way that people can. I myself still find it difficult to really trust that I am loved as I am. Even if I am aware about this, there is still a small part of myself that wants to contract, and which does not really trust that I am loved as I am and that life takes care of me. I find it easier to be present for others than to allow others to be present for me.”
Love and fear are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of love fear arises. In the light of love fear disappears, like when you turn the light on in a dark room. Fear is a contraction of our life energy together with an attitude of loneliness and isolation. Love creates an expansion of our life energy together with a feeling of love, joy and belongingness.
Love is the strongest power there is. There is no stronger force than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really doing anything. The sheer presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love, since love makes people whole.
Love accepts a person as he is. Love creates the freedom, which allows a person to be himself. Love creates the relaxation, which allows a person to relax into his inner being, into his authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being that we already are. Love allows a person to discover his true individuality.
Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is a quality of our inner being. It is to discover the source of love deep within ourselves, which is our true nature.
In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.
It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separate from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a large ocean, but that life is one and that we are all small parts of the same whole. It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to understand what is important and meaningful in life. We begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding, that life is about giving, rather than taking.
It is when we open our heart that we discover a sense of unity in love with other people, with the trees, with nature, with the sea and with the blue sky.
This is the silent revolution of the heart.
The human heart is the solution to the problems of the world.
The human heart contains all the answers.
The human heart has the capacity to expand and embrace the whole earth.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
