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Sep 8, 2026
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
They're both expressions of the same moon, and it's in the half moon that you really appreciate that.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
So Visvarupa doesn't mean worshiping God in a Karma Yoga sense or a Seva sense.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
That's cheap.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
You know, when people do Karma Yoga or Seva, what they're saying is that like, "I will gain merit, some karmic merit from helping others, and my God will like that.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
Like, God will like if I serve devotees, if I volunteer at the soup kitchen." That's fine.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
That's actually an...
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
But just like you feel Christ in the church, you should feel Christ giving the $10 to the beggar or receiving $10 from a, a donor.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
The feeling is what's important.
Jonathan FoustHOST
And to do it from a place of awareness.
Jonathan FoustHOST
You know, I was very informed through yoga, this principle of seva, S-E-V-A, or selfless service.
Jonathan FoustHOST
As when you are, when you're serving, but without an agenda, without a self, there's a purity in that that's exquisite.
Jonathan FoustHOST
That was very much a deep, deep part of my path.
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And in that meeting, something in him settled.
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He became a devoted Sikh and gave the rest of his life to one single practice – Seva.
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Selfless service, asking nothing back.
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Years later, the city of Anandpur Sahib came under siege.
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He spent the rest of his life this way, tending to anyone in front of him, asking nothing about which side they'd come from.
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and the path he walked eventually grew into something larger than himself.
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The Seva Panthi Order, a community of Sikhs devoted entirely to selfless service and healing, still carrying his name and his practice forward today.
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What strikes me most about this story isn't really Bhai Kanhaiya's compassion, remarkable as it was.
Emma BaconHOST
And this, I suppose, links with dharma, with having a life purpose or a spiritual purpose.
Emma BaconHOST
So when it's talking about right livelihood, it's also relating to seva, as in S-E-V-A, as in selfless service, that is often mentioned in yoga and many of the yoga scriptures from the past.
Andy BaconHOST
So right livelihood then doesn't mean becoming an accountant if you're good at numbers.
Andy BaconHOST
No.
Yamuna DeviHOST
And karma yoga, for those of you who don't know, or if you do know, it's fine too.
Yamuna DeviHOST
Karma yoga is the practice of selfless service.
Yamuna DeviHOST
So it can be so many things like serving your community or doing something without saying that you did it.
Yamuna DeviHOST
Does that make sense? So doing something without saying that you did it.
James HoltGUEST
But it caused me to reflect on my approach to living in the gospel.
James HoltGUEST
So one of the key beliefs of Sikhism is seva, which is selfless service.
James HoltGUEST
So this is the idea that when you serve, you do it with no thought of reward at all.
James HoltGUEST
So when you go to a gurdwara, you will be given langa.