Death & Resurrection, Rejoicement: Satsang Weekend with Giten, 20-21 April, 2019, in Stockholm
Rejoicement
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Giten received beautiful yellow tulips during the satsang weekend
SATSANG WEEKEND WITH GITEN,
20-21 APRIL, 2019 IN STOCKHOLM
“Satsang with Giten is a taste of the eternal, a taste of the timeless. It can feel like we sat for 3 hours, while we only sat for 40 minutes.
I was so afraid that I would lose the silence that I had found during satsang in India, but I found the silence again in satsang with Giten. Samadhi is like dying. The fear that I experienced in the beginning in satsang when I went into samadhi, when I disappeared into the silence, has now disappeared totally.
Satsang with Giten is like coming home. I went into samadhi three times during a satsang weekend with Giten – and I also got a map and an understanding for how to go into samadhi again.
Before I started to attend satsang, I did not think that enlightenment was possible, but now I feel that it is possible. Satsang with Giten confirms what I have really always known.
– Padma
“What a flow in the satsang weekend with Giten during Easter. Satsang Giten goes so deep into silence and oneness that it almost feels like a dream afterwards.”
– Deva Emanuel, participant in satsang weekend with Giten, 20-21 April, 2019
DEATH
To know life you to learn the art of death.
A seeker of truth who wants to know life must go through the experience of death.
Man consists of two layers: 1. The body, which belongs to the dimension of death and 2. The soul, the consciousness, which belongs to life itself.
A person who accepts death will attain to the deathless.
For the person who is conscious about death, death does not exist. Then death becomes a door to the deathless, to the eternal.
DEATH & RESURRECTION, REJOICEMENT
The whole message of Jesus Christ is rejoicement.
Jesus has said: Those who lose themselves will find themselves. It is to dissolve like a drop falls into the sea.
The spiritual teacher is a death, but he is also a rebirth, a resurrection, a rejoicement.
MEDITATION
Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.
A meditator has to pass through a death.
Meditation is the art of learning to die consciously.
The spiritual teacher gives you meditation to die and to be reborn.
SILENCE
The basic teaching of all religions is silence.
A silence spread in our inner being, the mind will begin to dissolve. That silence unites you with truth.
When a person is ready to dissolve into silence, his ego will disappear, and he will not be separated from existence.
A holy person means one who has become silent within.
A spiritual teacher is a death, because the ego of the student will dissolve completely. Within the student arises a pure emptiness, and samadhi is born.
ENLIGHTENMENT
Enlightenment is a door to existence.
Enlightenment is the insight that everything is as it should be. Everything is perfect as it is.
The meditator knows that he is going to die but he also knows that he is going to be reborn.
Enlightenment is the realization that you are part of existence, of the whole.
A great rejoicement happens in enlightenment, because you are at home in existence.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
