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.
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.
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