{"id":1032,"date":"2026-09-02T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-144-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-144-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 144 \u2013 Merging 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\/06\/MwS-Lesson-144.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\">Lower States Of Mind<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When someone begins on the path from states of consciousness below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra, in the confused thinking areas of the mind, in the angry chakras, religion will be to him a superstitious, forboding, very unclear area. These chakras are also known as talas, or states of darkness, self-concealment and distortion. They are the \u201cnether poles\u201d of the higher chakras and of the seven corresponding lokas. Confused thinking we can define as \u201cself-preservation thinking.\u201d When a person is within this chakra, the feelings of \u201cme and mine\u201d are strong. It is a state of outward passion and sense indulgence. This is the vibration of the tal\u0101tala chakra, which could be translated as \u201cunder the bottom level,\u201d \u201cplace-nonplace\u201d (tala-atala), or \u201crealm of nonbeing.\u201d In this fourth center below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra, the protection of one\u2019s small universe at all costs is the consciousness. <br><br>Should such a person ever become uplifted, since his consciousness is deep within the lower chakras, he would first come up in consciousness into jealousy, the sutala chakra, meaning \u201cgreat lower region,\u201d a \u201cgood matter\u201d state of spiritual darkness ruled by desire and passion. The feeling of jealousy is a higher consciousness than that of the chakra below, which confuses the thinking. The next upliftment, after jealousy and confused thinking, is the release into the chakra of anger, the second force center below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra. This is the vitala chakra, translated as \u201cthe region of the lost,\u201d \u201crealm of division or confusion.\u201d The upliftment to follow anger is to enter the chakra of fear, a state of spiritual annihilation called the atala chakra, meaning \u201cwithout bottom,\u201d or \u201cno place.\u201d Fear is a higher consciousness than anger or jealousy. It is people who live in this chakra who make up the masses who fear God rather than love God. <br><br>The fifth chakra below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra is called ras\u0101tala, literally \u201cstate of sense enjoyment.\u201d This is the true home of the animal nature. Here personal selfishness predominates. Persons strongly in the consciousness of this force center care nothing for the problems and suffering of others. <br><br>Below this, dare we speak of it, is the mah\u0101tala, \u201cthe greatest lower region,\u201d where ego rules supreme. This is the realm of unconscionable acts, wherein perpetrators feel absolutely no remorse for the most heinous wrongdoings. The conscience is completely dormant for those locked in this realm. Negativity, depression and other dark states of mind are the order of the day for those in the mah\u0101tala chakra. Finally, at the bottom of consciousness is the p\u0101t\u0101la chakra, \u201clower region of wickedness\u201d or \u201cfallen state,\u201d where dark ignorance rules. This is the realm of vicious destruction, of revenge, murder for the sake of murder. Basking in the twisted vibrations of this area of consciousness, depraved transgressors torture others without a thought, express malice without a twinge of conscience, harm others in innumerable ways for sheer enjoyment and take delight in the emotional, mental and physical suffering of fellow humans and all beings that cross their path. Hatred is the ruling force in the p\u0101t\u0101la chakra; malice reigns supreme. Far from reason, and farther still from compassion and insight, are those who live in the darkness of this area of mind. <br><br>We can see that coming up through the lower chakras is quite an ordeal. But once the individual goes through the fear chakra, he comes to Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba\u2019s feet and enters the realms of memory and reason, clarity and understanding. It is at this point in the unfoldment through the chakras, which is a journey of consciousness, that he would begin thinking of others and seek to benefit them more than himself. From here on, the path of spiritual unfoldment is not as ominous as it was before. There are no threatening areas, except that it is possible to fall back into lower consciousness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower States Of Mind When someone begins on the path from states of consciousness below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra, in the confused thinking areas of the mind, in the angry chakras, religion will be to him a superstitious, forboding, very unclear area. These chakras are also known as talas, or states of darkness, self-concealment and distortion. 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