{"id":1055,"date":"2026-09-05T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-147-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-147-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 147 \u2013 Dancing 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\/2025\/02\/DwS-Lesson-147.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\">What Are the Two Views on Creation?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 147<br>Monistic theists believe that \u015aiva creates the cosmos as an emanation of Himself. He is His creation. Pluralistic theists hold that \u015aiva molds eternally existing matter to fashion the cosmos and is thus not His creation. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>Pluralistic Siddh\u0101ntins hold that God, souls and world\u2014Pati, pa\u015bu and p\u0101\u015ba\u2014are three eternally coexistent realities. By creation, this school understands that \u015aiva fashions existing matter, m\u0101y\u0101, into various forms. In other words, God, like a potter, is the efficient cause of the cosmos. But He is not the material cause, the \u201cclay\u201d from which the cosmos is formed. Pluralists hold that any reason for the creation of p\u0101\u015ba\u2014\u0101\u1e47ava, karma and m\u0101y\u0101\u2014whether it be a divine desire, a demonstration of glory or merely a playful sport, makes the Creator less than perfect. Therefore, p\u0101\u015ba could never have been created. Monistic Siddh\u0101ntins totally reject the potter analogy. They teach that God is simultaneously the efficient, instrumental and material cause. \u015aiva is constantly emanating creation from Himself. His act of manifestation may be likened to heat issuing from a fire, a mountain from the earth or waves from the ocean. The heat is the fire, the mountain is the earth, the waves are not different from the ocean. The Vedas proclaim, \u201cIn That all this unites; from That all issues forth. He, omnipresent, is the warp and woof of all created things.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are the Two Views on Creation? \u015aLOKA 147Monistic theists believe that \u015aiva creates the cosmos as an emanation of Himself. He is His creation. Pluralistic theists hold that \u015aiva molds eternally existing matter to fashion the cosmos and is thus not His creation. Aum. 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