Thank you very much, sir, for this short video. I always wondered whether doing guru seva means helping guru in daily tasks n following him in all of life. How will it work?? Now i got what guru seva means..
Yes, because you love someone and relish being with them, you may naturally do certain things for them, and that gets called as seva. But we cannot reverse this sequence -- just because we do something for others it does not necessarily become Seva. Foremost thing is what we are going through within ourselves.
Sir, disagree with Your explanation Seva and Sevan are not the same just like Jal has multiple meanings in different situations Seva and Sevan have different contexts.... So according to You Whats the Hindi/Sanskrit Word of Service???
Seva and Sevana are the same. The root word is “Sev”, and today it is being translated as both “service” and “savour”. In this culture they did not give first importance to outward acts. They did not call something as “Seva” just because something was done outwardly. Something becomes Seva only if someone is relishing what they are doing, and when they relish being with someone, they will naturally do certain things as a consequence - they will serve. But when people give moralistic importance to the consequence, they would just imitate the consequence. That becomes artificial and deception. So first and foremost, we need to set the foundation right (inner experience), not consequences (outward acts).
Thank you very much, sir, for this short video. I always wondered whether doing guru seva means helping guru in daily tasks n following him in all of life. How will it work?? Now i got what guru seva means..
Yes, because you love someone and relish being with them, you may naturally do certain things for them, and that gets called as seva. But we cannot reverse this sequence -- just because we do something for others it does not necessarily become Seva. Foremost thing is what we are going through within ourselves.
Sir, disagree with Your explanation
Seva and Sevan are not the same just like Jal has multiple meanings in different situations Seva and Sevan have different contexts....
So according to You Whats the Hindi/Sanskrit Word of Service???
Seva and Sevana are the same. The root word is “Sev”, and today it is being translated as both “service” and “savour”.
In this culture they did not give first importance to outward acts. They did not call something as “Seva” just because something was done outwardly. Something becomes Seva only if someone is relishing what they are doing, and when they relish being with someone, they will naturally do certain things as a consequence - they will serve.
But when people give moralistic importance to the consequence, they would just imitate the consequence. That becomes artificial and deception.
So first and foremost, we need to set the foundation right (inner experience), not consequences (outward acts).