What is Seva (or serving selflessly)?

Serving selflessly is not very difficult…but needs to be understood how a thought, word or action becomes an active example of ‘serving selflessly’.

At the outset, I want to clarify that the word ‘selfless’ sounds heavy and a bit intimidating. The reason for this uneasy feeling emerging from this word arises from our way of life that is completely self-centred -revolving all around ‘me’ and ‘mine’. And this self-centred way of living out our lives has made it near impossible to configure a different way to ‘be’.

But we can change this with little baby steps in the direction of living out ‘complete trust’ in ourselves – with establishing a belief that we don’t have to incessantly live with the fear & insecurity of ‘What about me?’ – and turning that around to the knowing that ‘I’ll be fine 

• Clap and cheer for someone who really did well at a job assignment or a public performance (although you think you could perform better)

• Say a kind word of genuine encouragement to a colleague who is feeling down and out (although your colleague is an indifferent person and never cares for you)

• Stop and help a person trying to navigate to find an unfamiliar place in your neighbourhood (although you don’t ask anybody for help to find a place).

• Pitching in and helping a person at the store, when she/he falls short of a little money to cover the items in the shopping basket (although your mind may recoil from helping a stranger with money)

• Keeping quiet when you sense that it is the best thing to do in the moment (although you instinctively want to react and make a loud noise) 

The list of these instances is an endless one that may collectively offer you many lifetimes of opportunities to ‘serve selflessly’.

Why Seva is an important aspect of your life?

At all times, life is handing out a chance to us to break through the fear & insecurity of ‘me and mine’ and our obsession of why we must constantly protect and promote our interests. Our sense of self seems to constantly either balloon up OR shrink down before something else, causing a rush of pleasure and pain, intense emotional ups and downs that zap us of all our energies and leave us physically & mentally drained out- and this is very common.

And this needs to turn around - simply by placing our attention to becoming the ‘one’ to step into the moment as an able arm of divinity and apply our energies outside the gambit of pleasing the ‘me & mine’.

Try it – the ability to transform a moment by stepping in to ‘give’ freely and unconditionally is a great fodder for your spirit.

Your spirit soars when thought, word, and action flowing through you nourishes, nurtures, encourages, helps, supports, flourishes, works for the good of someone who is meant to receive from you. In effect, you learn to draw and channelize the divine universal flow of energy through you to anyone and everyone who is meant to be receiving it in some form or other that lights up their lives.

Ahead on this path, you become like the tree that offers its shade and like the flowing stream that offers its clean water. A fountain of Joy springs up from your being, as you learn to make this way of being your own. 

Come and join me in the sessions where I explore this unique power of a god gift to humans…Your life will never be the same again.

- Nitin Orayan