'Happiness'. - Ssy.org

After SSY we start offering Seva silently. He is a Santosha Sevak. After AMC one starts doing Seva very
lovingly with enthusiasm. He is a Prema Sevak. After BST one starts doing Seva very joyfully for he knows
how to remain ecstatic by realizing the truth of life. He realizes how to live beyond expectations. He is a
Satya Sevak.
SSY, AMC and BST are internal Sadhanas and Seva is the application of Sadhana in one's life on the
external level. Sadhana brings internal abundance. Seva brings external abundance. Sadhana and Seva
go hand in hand with Satsang. Satsang with people on the path, trains us to grow higher.
As a person rises in consciousness, he experiences higher and higher levels of freedom. The lower the
consciousness, the more conditions he has and feels free only when those conditions are met.
The more conditions, the less freedom we experience! When we have no conditions, one is totally free.
Sadhana, Seva and Satsang help us to go beyond our boundaries, our conditioning.
Total Freedom of the Soul.
When life becomes totally effortless and one is ecstatic for no reason, life becomes a play (Leela), a joke,
then one is a Jeevanmukt - free while alive.
Freedom is not a state, but a process of freeing oneself moment to moment.
To grow higher and higher in freedom and ecstasy is what we learn with the Guru. Our culture is based
on the Guru-Shishya Parampara, the tradition of creating Gurus. There were 1,25,000 universities in
Madras state alone in 1800 according to a British survey. Each was a beautiful Gurukul because
educational institutions and production institutions were one and the same.
Production was the natural by-product of the learning process. The state of learning keeps our
enthusiasm in life alive. The main focus was on learning, which automatically led to production. So
everybody joyfully contributed towards society.