{"id":1021,"date":"2026-08-31T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-142-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-142-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 142 \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-142.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\">Mysticism In the Home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u015aaivite Hindu lifestyle is very special, very binding, strengthened by: the pa\u00f1cha nitya karmas; the Monday family home evening and the daily family meetings; the knowing that each child is and has been totally a part of the family, maybe for hundreds of years; the knowing that there is karma to be worked out within the family\u2014feelings of happiness, unhappiness and misunderstandings, all to be resolved; and the knowing that there is a purpose for them all being together and that they may all be together until mukti, liberation from the cycle of rebirth. All this and more distinguishes the \u015aaivite family from all other families on the planet. <br><br>It is on the astral plane, the inner world of this world, that twenty-four-hour life takes place. Beings there do not have to sleep. The positive activity of the astral world within the house or the apartment transforms it into a home, or if negative into a hotel room. To stabilize this astral activity and make sure it is positive, the home p\u016bj\u0101 is performed by every \u015aaivite family daily. Scriptures are read, the yamas and niyamas are fulfilled and all difficulties, large and small, are resolved before sleep. Divine ancestral devas are coaxed to live in the home, as well as devas from nearby temples where the family frequently worships. This magic makes the home into a spiritual abode, not unlike a temple itself. <br><br>Children are always treated with great respect and awe in a true \u015aaivite home, for one does not always know who these young ones were in past lives. They may be incarnations of a grandmother, grandfather, aunt or uncle, dearly beloved mother, sister, brother, respected father, distant related yog\u012b or \u1e5bishi. Who are they? What is their destiny to fulfill in this life? <br><br>The answers lie in the voice of the universe, the mystical \u015aaivite astrological system laid down by the \u1e5bishis of yore. The family\u2019s astrologer carefully explains the nature of each child, and how it will develop, flourish and unfold year after year. This gives the parents knowledge and hope, courage and understanding, tolerance and forgiveness, and all the other fine qualities that all \u015aaivites want to cultivate within themselves. In raising the children and simultaneously realizing that each is a part of \u015aiva\u2019s well-ordered universe and has entered the family with his or her own pr\u0101rabdha karmas to be lived out, the parents are neither excited nor dismayed when the predicted characteristics begin to manifest within the child. Yes, the \u015aaivite home is a factory, an intricate mechanism manufacturing spiritual unfoldment for every member of the family. <\/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 142: INSPIRING BELONGING AND DIGNITY<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers encourage and inspire children so they always feel they belong and are significant. If upsets occur, parents use loving, positive strategies such as time-out, logical consequences and denial of privileges. 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