The Call of the Heart
by Swami Dhyan Giten
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Giten says that love is as easy as drinking a glass of water. Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person, but a state of being. Love is a natural state of being,
In this new and beautiful book spiritual teacher Swami Dhyan Giten explores the art of love, the way of the heart, the art of happiness.
Giten says that love is as easy as drinking a glass of water. Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person, but a state of being. Love is a natural state of being, a natural state of consciousness.
He explains that love is the ultimate law of existence. Love is eternal. Love is our intrinsic quality. We are born with it. Everything becomes possible with love.
Giten challenges our view of love by saying that love is our very being, but love has become almost impossible, because society and religions do not allow it. Society and the religions condition us in such a way that love becomes impossible and hate becomes the only possible way. Society and religions do not allow freedom. Society and the religions have reduced humanity to a mere state of survival, a low state of consciousness.
In this book Giten offers a new dimension of what real love is and understanding that love is our nature. In this book he explores how we can realize that love is not an exclusive relationship, but a state of being, how we can learn to to love, accept and respect ourselves as we are, how we can learn to to trust ourselves and our intuition, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, how we can create loving relationships to ourselves, to others and to life, how we can achieve real happiness and understand that real happiness is to be yourself, how we can discover that joy comes from within, to understand the difference between conditional love and unconditional love, to understand the relationship between love, freedom and aloneness, how love creates healing, how love and meditation relate to each other, how to surrender your ego so you can surrender to love, how love is the door to enlightenment and to be a light to yourself.
This book is a compilation of lectures from satsang with spiritual teacher and author Swami Dhyan Giten between March 2016 and July 2022 in Stockholm.
Like life, this book is a gift of love to yourself or a beloved friend.
Spiritual teacher and author Swami Dhyan Giten's quotes, articles and books have touched the hearts of thousands of people and are appearing with increased frequency in magazines, blogs and homepages. The influence from his teaching and books continues to grow and are reaching intelligent people and seekers of truth in virtually all countries in the world. He has been described by Swami Prem Pathik in Nepal: "Giten is really a spiritual master of love and silence. He is a loving man, who knows the science of truth, love and life. Whenever I read his words of spirituality, I always find myself in deep silence and in the belly of the divine, where anyone can feel himself as a buddha.”
Excerpt:
Fulfillment never comes through the mind. Learn how to use the intellect, but do not live for the intellect, live for the heart.
The heart asks for love, the heart asks for joy, the heart asks for compassion, the heart asks for truth, the heart asks for intuition, the heart asks for healing, the heart asks for freedom, the heart asks for silence, the heart asks for fulfillment and the heart asks for the divine.
The ultimate thirst and longing of the heart is samadhi and enlightenment. The mind can at the most bring ideas, theories, arguments, analysis and concepts about love, joy, truth, freedom and enlightenment.
Use the intellect, but understand that the intellect is only a useful tool and instrument. The intellect is not everything. Do not allow the intellect to interfere in silence, love, joy, truth, meditation, silence and enlightenment.
When you get a taste of the heart, you will find a silence descending on you like a silent rain, and a joy without outer causes begins to fill you from within.
Some people do not hear nothing, but ideas, logic and theories. They do not come close to the heart, but when you get a taste of the heart; you will not bother about ideas and concepts anymore.
It depends on you. It is your own choice and responsibility. If you allow yourself to come close to the heart, you will allow yourself, you will find silence, joy, love, truth, freedom, compassion and gratefulness. Then the door to gratefulness to life opens. Then you have come one step towards the eternal, to the immortal. You have to gather courage to take the jump to that, which is beyond logic.
The heart gives you the first glimpse of the open sky and then that glimpse will start growing in you. Then the call of the heart will call louder and louder.
When you make the intellect a limitation, you will remain a small pond. If you make the intellect a step towards the heart, you will embark on a great journey to the ocean. One who finds the heart becomes a river to the ocean. Then you live in a continuous process for enlightenment.
One has to go beyond the intellect, and one has to go beyond the heart. First, move from the intellect to the heart, to love, and then move the inner being, to silence. That silence is your home. Then limits drop and the infinite and boundless begin. Bondage drops and one has glimpses of the eternal, of freedom.
You have to take a new step into the unknown. The intellect is just an accumulation of the past. The heart means the unknown, the heart means adventure. A person who makes the journey towards the unknown makes a journey towards enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the most unknown happening in life. Enlightenment always remains a mystery. The intellect can never understand enlightenment.
Keep the heart available for the unknown. Don't hold back when the unknown calls. When the unknown knocks on your door, move with it, don't be afraid.
This is the sign of a spiritual person.
