{"id":1015,"date":"2026-08-30T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-141-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-141-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 141 \u2013 Living with \u015aiva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/LwS-Lesson-141.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Recording: Gurudeva&#8217;s cloned voice<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ideals Of Marriage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marriage is an institution, a business, a spiritual partnership, a furtherance of humanity and a contract\u2014a three-level contract involving body, mind and emotion. Marriage is a necessary commitment not only for the continuation of the human race but also for the furtherance of each individual soul\u2019s spiritual unfoldment. The interaction on all levels between the couple, and later their children, molds the good, bad and confused karmas into new dimensions. \u015aaivite marriages involve not only the bride and groom but also their parents, their priest, guru, astrologer, relatives on both sides and the entire community. The feeling of responsibility to the community is ever present. The community\u2019s feeling of responsibility to make each of its marriages work out well is also always present. <br><br>Why are \u015aaivite marriages different from other kinds of marriages? It is because of the ever-abiding belief in the ever-present oneness of God \u015aiva within each one. God \u015aiva is within you, and you are within God \u015aiva. God \u015aiva is the Life of our lives. This and more the \u015aaivite saints sang. To forget that \u015aiva is within the wife, to forget that \u015aiva is within the husband is to forget \u015aaivism itself. This basic \u015aaivite belief lays the psychological foundation for the husband to see the wife as a Goddess and the wife to see the husband as a God. All other behavior comes out of this belief. Belief creates attitudes, and attitudes create actions. <br><br>The knowing that each one has come into life to work out certain karmas they brought with them in this birth, and that karmas are generally worked out through other people, gives a challenge and a goal\u2014to resolve these karmas and receive the reward of mukti, freedom from rebirth. Because of this belief, this understanding, the husband and wife blend their energies more constructively. Their attitudes are naturally more generous, forgiving and understanding, their actions and interactions more harmonious and mutually supportive. A woman gives her pr\u0101\u1e47a, spiritual energy, to her husband, making him strong. Children give their pr\u0101\u1e47a to their parents, because to them the parents are \u015aiva-\u015aakti, the first guru. The wife, always attending to her husband\u2019s needs, sets the pattern for the children. By focusing her energies within her family, she builds up a great spiritual vibration in the home. In fulfilling his purusha dharma, the husband gives his pr\u0101\u1e47a, love and loyalty to his family, and he benefits the community through his service. He never, ever raises his voice in the home; nor does he show anger in any way. He is the model for the entire family. When his sons come of age, they join their pr\u0101\u1e47as with his, and as a result, the family, the community and the country flourish. <br><br>Believing in reincarnation, the parents know that their relatives\u2014and they themselves\u2014will be born back into their family again and again to work out their unfinished karmas. A \u015aaivite home is a karmic factory, a recycling of souls, a mill that grinds exceedingly fine the seed karmas of this and past lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 141: LOGICAL, POSITIVE DISCIPLINE<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers direct children through affirmations, meaningful chores and rules that are clear and understood, teaching that mistakes are opportunities to learn, and focusing on solutions instead of punishment. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ideals Of Marriage Marriage is an institution, a business, a spiritual partnership, a furtherance of humanity and a contract\u2014a three-level contract involving body, mind and emotion. Marriage is a necessary commitment not only for the continuation of the human race but also for the furtherance of each individual soul\u2019s spiritual unfoldment. 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