Seeker: Could you speek a little about Seva?

Seeker: Could you speek a little about Seva?

Satyavan : First of all you need you to understand that you know nothing until you don’t know who you are, until that final Realization/Reabsorption/Dissolution in the magnificent splendor of your own existence, no matter how much you studied and practiced, how many years/eons passed, you know nothing . Understand this, get back to this humble state of understanding, it is precious. One can naively say that everything is a step towards truth, but every step doesn’t bring you closer. There are no steps or distances to Truth, either you know or you don’t know!

Seva is the light that reveals the gold. Seva is a need for the seeker of Truth. A seeker of truth is the one that is active and intensely engaged in the search for Truth. He knows he doesn’t know so he’s seeking. The true seeker of Truth doesn’t assume that he already knows a lot, that he has reached certain spiritual levels, or levels of knowledge. His heart yearns for Real Dissolution, the realization of Truth, the Source.

Most seekers are stuck here; their paths are guided by their will, their ideas, and their beliefs. Your delusion is what guides your search, and that search goes nowhere, only perpetuates movement because that which you are seeking is exactly what you don’t want to find, it is the illusion that seeks to perpetuate itself. The mind thinks it will get somewhere, but it must really disappear. A long journey accumulating supposed spiritual knowledge that softens or hardens even more individuality, only perpetuating itself, the illusion. The mind will only witness That Greatness and will disappear with the dream.

When the seeker becomes a seeker of truth, what he calls his mind has already surrendered to what he calls his heart, and what he calls his heart has surrendered in to the service of Truth! And his heart impels him in directions contrary to his mind, causing him to break through his fears, through his limitations... To be in the service of Truth is seva! All actions of the seeker must serve Truth, the Source. The seeker must surrender to the Source.

When that which the seeker calls his mind stands in the service of what the seeker calls his heart, then the seeker of truth emerges, he is ready to receive instruction. From being ready to actually receiving instruction may take a while depending on the seekers perception. But instruction will come! In the beginning is the constant reaffirming of Surrender, it is the friction between instruction and own beliefs, your little world, accepting the instruction , rejecting your own wills, the impressions that arise in what you call your inner space of perception , living the emerging crises arising from that conflict, then stillness  will come, quietude that will remain a while dissolving the remaining structures ...

What you normally call seva, selfless service is a means of interaction , attunement between the seeker and Source . There must only exist seva for the seeker, he should no longer employ his actions in the perpetuation of his illusion, so he surrenders what he calls his body, his emotions, his mind in the service of the Source. From the point of view of the seeker his actions should benefit everything and everyone but himself, he ceases to feed what he calls his worldly aspirations, his dreams of a future, security, etc. What he calls his actions no longer serve the purpose of maintaining his own illusion, so he stops feeding it. For the seeker of Truth , the source is the Guru , the Guru is the source . Seva is not the light that shows the Truth, but it is the rubber that erases illusion.

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 1

1st Dialogue

Seeker: Tell me Satyavan: how much silence is necessary for awakening? Better yet to awaken the Seeker of Truth? If I am I, I still hesitate, even if I say and affirm repeatedly like a mantra I am, I hesitate ... how much silence is still necessary? How much? ...
 

Satyavan: From the seeker's silence emerge the screams of his own illusion! The seeker of comfort avoids them, pretends they are nothing, waits for them to pass ... The seeker of truth embraces them, even if he travels to the deepest agony, he doesn’t stop until he breaks free from his fears! Silence is the light that shows the illusion, and fears are the guardians of it. If silence does not show these fears, then it is not yet silence! If the seeker doesn’t embrace them, then he is not yet a seeker of Truth! The seeker of comfort suffers much more and for longer periods, and will inevitably be "forced" to face his fears ... and the seeker of truth suffers just a short time, though intensely, then Freedom, Joy! Empty your cup of individuality and all your beliefs / fears, know who You truly Are!

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 2

2nd Dialogue

Seeker: I plan to go to India, but I'm thinking that spending a few days with you in retreat can make a big difference to my trip. I have some questions that are still not very clear to me ... I want to learn to meditate, you talk about techniques, I think I don’t have them, so I'm in trouble, I need to learn to concentrate. The yoga courses here in my town are mere gyms, without the development of consciousness, there is something missing (Sankhya). I'm reading the Bhagavad-Gita, the teachings of Sri Shankaracharya and Patanjali attract me much, but to put into practice I need help. The process is crucial and I really feel a bit lost. As you said: "the blind leading the blind", or worse, a lot of people out there just reproducing texts, doing yogic contortions and naming themselves yogis ... You did not cite texts (references lol!), But I realize them in-between. You speak of a place (Rishikesh?). Well, right now I'm just trying to be silent, trying to meditate, doing japa. I want to see things as they really are, out of illusion. Satyavan, you know, sometimes I have the impression that the thing is so simple, so simple that it is put aside for thinking that the truth lies behind a complex puzzle which we have to unravel, through a higher intellectual function, Is there that illusion rests?
 

Satyavan: eheheheh ... The reason why I don’t quote texts (bibliographic references) is because there are none! If you notice them it is only you associating this texts with something else, if they are in tune is because they speak the same "thing" ... If there is any purpose in What I wright in the texts, perhaps is to "guide" in a way that only the most attentive realize ... The practice is only for the realization of truth, and not to give meaning to what is understood as the life of the body, what most seekers are really wanting is a purpose to give to the illusion that they identify with, that’s why there is no "moving  forward", they are just looking for a comfortable existence and not of the" origin ", and that is a big or “The Big "mistake. The Realization of Truth is really quite simple, the harder it is to "let go" of illusion. The teachings of yoga guides from illusion to reality but their interpretation is conditioned by the level of understanding / awareness of the aspirant, but still if followed with diligence, in honesty the aspirant’s level of understanding, it gives support to break with illusion, with his own beliefs. Regarding the techniques I don’t speak any more about them, because it's irrelevant... more important than the techniques is the motivation, the will! Even the texts that you read here, what you understand and what I wrote are almost entirely different universes; the words receive the meaning that the reader gives them. Here in the Ashram I don’t give the teachings of yoga, but I go directly to “The Point”, what limits you here and now, no philosophies, and no distractions, directly to the point. The real India is the center of silence that you are, You Are Totality.
 

Seeker: no philosophies, directly to the point ... this is wonderful! I wonder ... Well… if I understand that I am not this body, I am part of All ... How to break the identification with the body? And how do we identify with the Absolute? You see ... just knowing that (intellectually) is not enough, and there it is: how to link to the Absolute, how to remove this illusory distance so hard to "let go"? If you "guide" is because there is a path, right? What is it? Who are those that are most attentive?
 

Satyavan: To try to know the truth through your own beliefs is like a cat chasing to catch his own tail... you say that you understand that you are not the body, you say that you are part of the whole (concept of the body and concept of the whole, when I refer to body I speak of individuality), but the clear notion as "everybody" has and it couldn’t be otherwise, that I (the identity) is something apart (yes this says a lot), even if you imagine you have to identify with the whole, as if the whole were made from parts, as if you were a part of the whole, as if the parts are real ... Is there is any path? If you call to the abandoning of all ideas and paths, a path, then we have a path, stillness, the zero point. Really just knowing about it is not enough... Or you begin to abandon illusion, and deal with the fears that emerge from this process, or it will persist even if you theorize that this is just a dream. Suffering and joy also arise in what you call the dream state, and when you wake up from the dream, the dream loses all its importance with the clear understanding that it is a dream. Here in what you call reality the only difference is that you believe it to be real thus it persists, you invest in this, you have dreams here, completely immersed in illusion, convinced that that from where recognition is taking place, and that which is being recognized is real the way it presents itself. Remember the words I put here have a meaning, but the words that see here get a totally different meaning, according to your beliefs. True communication is heart to heart. Don’t just stay there enchanted with the heat luminosity of the fire, come closer, come and burn in it.
 

Seeker: Yesterday you told me that you do not pass teachings of yoga at the Ashram, but you go straight to the point, what limits you here and now, no philosophies, directly to the point. Today, you say that trying to know the truth through our own beliefs is like a cat that tries to catch his own tail ... "From" where do you speak? Who introduced you to this fire, or did you sought this fire yourself? This question will help me reflect on what you said.

Satyavan: I speak from direct knowledge, these are no theories that I’m presenting you. This fire sparked in me and never stopped burning until nothing was left ... All aid (teachings) would point to silence, and I dove into it, I have plunged in the fire of my own silence. But you know this is unimportant, if this confirmation is necessary for you to open yourself to the words above, then they don’t serve you, if you seek the security of the credibility of these words, then they don’t serve you. This is for the heart. The mind doubts, the heart always knows. But like I said, it's irrelevant, I'm irrelevant; when you dive in your own silence you will know until then you'll just theorize. If this helps you than great, if it doesn’t help you, great ... but this is for the heart, the mind knows nothing, and so much confidence is placed in the same ... Don’t believe me. Investigate!
 

Seeker: I'm investigating (internally) everything you told me. Trying to hear my silence. The fire was weak. You put fuel on the fire lol
  Thank you...!

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 3

3rd dialogue
 

Seeker: Dear Satyavan, "The name of the game you’re playing now is entertainment" ... of course! Why? Or rather, why not? Investigate ... what would be the karma, maya or prana? It would be tragic if it wasn’t hilarious how the answer is so obvious. Occupy myself, but occupy myself with what really? That message may seem a little silly at this point. Returning to the same questions, who I am, who are you ... after all, can you trust these memories? The whole tale repeats itself, and as you yourself said, one day, "this will be an epic." And writing this leaves me with a doubt about if I will ever see you again; if you my master have dismissed me forever in secrecy. I once heard in a song that "the proximity increases the distance." Perhaps never seeing you again can be great. But this is part of my show, to be has peter pan and live in never land. rs Peace and Light
 

Satyavan: Eheheheh how many points covered ... You know, communication has really these things , you know words are in themselves empty of any meaning, it is empathy that makes communication. The key: A heart that overflows and a heart that longs to receive. If there is no empathy between the sender and receiver, communication becomes poor, or simply doesn’t happen. Another common phenomenon is: words leave the sender with meaning X, and when they reach the receiver, they receive the receivers own meaning to the same words, and the original message is lost in this way, leaving only confusion. The texts that you will find here are not literal... they are kind of encrypted... So your comment refers to your text, and I invite you to read my text! But for this you will need the code and it is called empathy/love between sender and receiver. You'll have to come to the text instead of taking the text to you! To "Investigate ... what would be karma , maya or prana ? " Eheheh , That’s what most people think that I mean... Investigation has nothing to do with it ... That is only investigation of the dream... just entertainment... " Who am I , who are you ... can you really trust these memories? " eheheh ... the second question ( who are you ) , defeats the purpose of the first ( who am I) ... The investigation of who am I has nothing to do with personality / body scenario, and it’s history, and is to that that memory refers to... theoretically there may be even the notion that one is not the body , but in practice that is the implicit truth behind each and every apparent action... The epic of which I spoke of is different from the one that you have understood...  Has long has the dream is so important, these words will be encrypted and there will be no code ... But in your "case" I know that the "dream" hasn’t that much power over you; you know a lot in yourself, and it becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile that which seems real with that which comes from your knowing... these cycles of despair towards hope, and from hope back to despair, are far more overwhelming, you need to mature... I don’t dismiss  any one of you , I just wait patiently for all of you, until you’re ready, and I'm always here. Do you really want to come “here”, or are you okay “there”? Caution eheheh these words may be encrypted... depending on the focus! The man in the boat just patiently awaits those wishing to cross the river , he doesn’t seek anyone, he just waits ... he knows his river, and knows that the only ones that can cross the river, are those who have no more interest in this river bank, or at least when the urge to cross the river is higher than the interest in the river bank... many try in vain to put one foot in the boat , and stand with the other foot on the bank, and most of these, find that when the boat begins to move , immediately they take the foot of the boat, remaining in the shore... The man in the boat knows that what all really want is on the other side of the river, and not the in that bank, but while that margin of the river is so precious, no one will believe him. Only suffering (recognition of the obvious about that river bank) may to a certain extent help abandoning it... Meanwhile, the man in the boat waits... I didn’t clarified the points above, I’ve only showed some of your confusions, if you have any interest you will investigate a little more...
 

Seeker: Dear Satyavan, do we really have an option? From the moment we know ourselves, we realized that the path is always one, but the "possibilities" are many... I've "met" the man of the boat and crossed the river. RSRSRS What did I found? Hum, let’s just say that some things are better left unsaid, because love needs no words. I also wait patiently. Perhaps for the same reasons that you Sir is also waiting. Oh Master. Of course you Sir would say words like this. But did you ever wondered that this would also be my text? My answer? I know you Sir ... well ... I'd rather say that I only know, or rather I feel, that your presence is like this. For me this is not an issue of observation, but of vigilance. I don’t know if I’ve understood the epic you talk about. But I do realize mine: "Every day is a coming and going, life repeats itself in this season, there are people who come to stay, there are people who will go and will never come back, there are people who have come and want to go back and there are people who go away and wants to stay there, there are people who just came to look, there are people smiling and crying ... "And yes, this is also an encrypted message. But you will understand, even if it is in your own way, you will understand. I remember crying with you, perhaps one day, you will cry with me.
 

Satyavan: The words I sent you are accurate and perfectly suiting this moment, see where they take you ... The questions that arise "inside of you" show you your illusion. Has for the man of the boat, you haven’t still met him my dear, if you speak of love then you have met the "boat", which in itself is essential, but you haven’t yet met the man of the boat, nor have you crossed the river. I know well the meaning of your words, and then the answer comes like this, and no, you haven’t understood your epic yet, you just believe you’ve understood ... these certainties brought you to this point, in a sterile world of understanding, but they will succumb, because they have already fulfilled their purpose, there is no way and no point of it being differently. When these certainties lose their importance, then it will be time to meet again ... and this will be inevitable my dear! Near the end, immediately before you cross the river, I will cry with you in the splendor of joy. Until then I will wait for the emptying of your cup.
 

Seeker: So, on one thing you may be right: I have not even started. The questions are merely illustrative. The answers are also illustrative. What I'll watch is the succession of days, but what I’m waiting is for is the end. What will be of me until then? Of this I've always been? I'm just here for planet Earth and mankind. There are many forms of love, but my love is unique. And so be it: Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva.


Satyavan: That's right my dear ... the succession of days and waiting for the end ... and this has nothing to do with " The Epic " , this is completely uninteresting , is automatic mechanical! It's just a constant surprise from the point where you find yourself in the knowledge / realization of yourself. At all times there arises in what you call your intimate space of perception: sensations , emotions and feelings , that you imagine to be yours, to be real, that seem to trigger from small oscillations to true cataclysms, and that is a part of the show, of the entertainment ... this will continue until the so called end , and then it will start again , tirelessly... I know that you know a bit of the "your greatness" but you confuse it with the body/scenario, from where you experience yourself now. During all times you observe the automatic/mechanic unfolding in what you call your life ( the life of the body) , and the most important goes unnoticed, That in there that observes it all, the Source of Splendor that You Are . What mankind do you speak of if only You exist, if you Are Totality? Many of the problems that you have experienced has been because you brought "too much luggage" (knowledge of yourself) for such a tiny wardrobe (body/mind complex), the perception of splendor... The Epic is the realization of the source That Splendor, and has nothing to do with the life of the body/mind! With respect to the mind/body, all of that will "fulfill" itself, by itself ... "You bring in yourself " a little of the perception of Splendor, you lack plunging into the source and dissolving in it . That (the life of the mind/body) no longer really convinces you, but you find yourself without an alternative and "you just keep on going "...in the dream, the beginning announces the end, and the end announces the beginning! As long has the importance is in the dream it will be just as you have experienced till now. In fact the "dream" that which for you seems real, that seems to have a purpose is just entertainment, to distract you from the Rea ... while the importance is attributed to the dream, the most important will go unnoticed and the dream will fulfill it’s real purpose: to distract you! In that which you call a dream (dreaming state), you experiment complete worlds unfolding in from of you with its events , a body , a scenario , and a mankind… when you "wake up" that world to which you call real, "emerges" ... from where did that dream world came, and where did it go? And where did the world you call real go? The certainty of one’s own purpose and the importance associated with it has been the pacifier of the turbulent waters of discontent with that which seems to be real... But is it really? I assure you it isn’t! All this will have to break sooner or later! You'll have to put your luggage aside as if you knew nothing, and nonconformity will be your greatest ally! You are not the body/mind, a being of mankind , You Are Totality ! Awake to Yourself!

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 4

4th Dialogue

Seeker: Your words are wise and full of love, however end up losing themselves among so many "being and not being".... It seems so clear for those who speak from the outside, but you cannot imagine how dark it is in here ... I am a person who struggles so much to love and understand myself, the whys of so much pain, but from every psychologist, doctor, medicine, alternative therapies, floral, yoga and meditation, everything goes back to point zero: I just know that I know nothing.
I do not understand, I lose myself in understanding. It’s clear in the beginning, but I lose myself in the end, and from my heart words begin to seek meaning in my brain. What could be clearer to me? How could it be any clearer? In silence I only hear evil words that hit me and hurt me, confirming what I feel to be: crazy, weak and inferior.
 

Satyavan: My dear, I know the about darkness you speaks of, I know well the process of seeking and not finding, trying and not succeeding, I know well that despair of a relentless struggle that seems to have no end, and I to know the roots of all that...And everything returns to point zero, it really has never left there. Learn more about this point zero, one day it will be point Infinite. Before that you will have to go deep in to these beliefs that you carry, and instead of surrendering to the evil words, give yourself fully to that silence and dissolve in it.Until then that’s the way it’s going to be, the experiences that you will "find" will only confirm that which you belief, because indeed these experiences are the result of those beliefs, then it couldn’t be different...

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 5

5th Dialogue

Seeker: Hello Satyavan, how am I doing there? heheehe ... I've read this article several times and each time I read I understand it differently. I identify a lot with him because I see I have experienced several examples of it, mainly the part of wanting to teach the path without having traveled through it... what a shame! “The Blind leading the blind". I feel really in circles always arriving at the same place as you say. Thoughts that I know will hurt me, I insist in thinking them. Why?
I'm unhappy in my job, I cannot feel pleasure in it, I just do it for money ... I would drop it, but what about bills?? Once again what a shame!! I fit perfectly in this article ... When will I have the courage to abandon illusion, or when will I know what is to abandon illusion? ... In regards of my job, if I abandon it and go to another, will I be happy there? Or is it best to seek pleasure in the current job, because it is a worthy job in this worlds the point of view! Do I really want to break with illusion, as you say ... or I just want to feel better? Till when? What is to break with illusion? Sorry if I'm repeating myself.

 

Satyavan: Hello friend, you’re always welcome! When stopping the conflict with yourself, you will see how "everything" earns softer colors ... when you literally leave yourself alone, you will see "everything" more clearly ... while the conflict continues, this persecution for yourself, an affliction that seems to have no end will persist... Learn to smile to the thoughts that emerge "in there", don’t give them importance, smile to those inner accusations that emerge "there", all of this are the "anchors" of illusion ... and have no value, beyond that which you assign to them... Happiness has nothing to do with scenarios/circumstances; if you continue to seek happiness in scenarios/circumstances you will always have the same experience... But when, instead of seeking happiness in scenarios/circumstances, you make them an expression of your happiness, of your joy, then naturally, the old scenarios change, even if only to your eyes, but usually they do change. The value of the scenarios/circumstances will remain the same, no value whatsoever! It will continue to be unreal, only the perception of the experience will appear different ... For those who seek comfort, well-being, it may be important, but for those seeking Truth, it will be irrelevant, however it may even be a result of that search for Truth. The story unfolds ... all that which you call your life with all that which you call your understanding, is showing itself empty of meaning, is showing its true nature, the truth in you is a breaking with all that you call your life... Through that road the most natural is that things will change, which apparently slows it all down, are your fears: at least that is what we would say, if by chance the story was the important thing, or at least this side of the story, but this achievement of conquering fears will lead you to awake. Discover your fears and conquer them, live them without running away until they lose their importance! Joy is "there" no need to look for it, just let go of your fears...

Dialogs With Seekers of Truth - 6

6th Dialogue

Seeker: I'm still sleeping in this world, despite feeling so awake. I see that it is all a dream all the time and often are not the dreams we dream but the dream of others. This may seem right but for me it all seems so wrong ... so full of concepts of right, wrong, freedom, equality that ultimately make no sense. Sometimes, I feel far from home, while here. My experience as a human being has been magical, with its negative and positive, and I feel lonely in this purpose. Will people ever wake up to themselves one day? For the God that exists in each one of them? I once heard that the world is a pantheon of sleeping Gods. I feel it to be true. But I end up catching myself dreaming again. There are no certainties in life. Not even death. If I said I saw the face of death would you believe? And I'm still here, whatever that means. The past does not exist today and the future will be just one more repetition of everything that has happened. There was one day that I was suffering by being more energetic than I should and all I wanted was to go home. And then I thought "Is that what we really want? To return home? In a higher sense?" But one certainty I have. It is love that seals things. It is love that awakens us. The experience in the Ashram never left my mind even for a second, even in dreams. I always return in my mind for that room and you're always there, as my guru. I cannot go this year but I dream that next year we will meet again in the new or old ashram, because this experience made me discover a deep sense of devotion and purity of soul. I'll be happy with an answer :)

Satyavan: Hello dear, you need to mature, mature, mature. Observe and let go without coming in without going out, without change, without reaching, without leaving, observing and letting go, without changing ... the webs will become thinner fainter, until they disappear... There's nowhere to go to, nowhere to return from, there is only glory, splendor, Wholeness! Waking up, higher sense, lower sense, to return home ... all an illusion, all an illusion ... don’t despair, and even if you do, it doesn’t matter, since all is part of this story that never really happened, and that apparently is taking place in the Infinity of Your splendor! Observe everything, because everything emerges from you, from the center of your being. Observe all that and remove its importance, a lot you will see by seeing nothing. It’s not important, let yourself mature, surrender yourself to joy, surrender yourself to sorrow, surrender yourself to the magic, give yourself to agony, surrender yourself without surrendering, touch without touching, let yourself mature ... I'm always here, I'm always here ...