{"id":1063,"date":"2026-09-07T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:00:04","slug":"lesson-149-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-149-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 149 \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\/07\/MwS-Lesson-149.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\">Self-Concern, Self-Preservation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who are living totally on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga are not religious, and if attending religious functions, they stand with folded arms, on the outside looking in. Their only emotions are for themselves, their immediate family and friends, but only if the latter prove useful to them. Selfishness and avarice are two descriptive words for their lifestyle. To their immediate family, they are protective, kind and resourceful, provided the spouse, sons and daughters are productive and equally as concerned for the family welfare. The animal instinct prevails of \u201cLet\u2019s preserve the nest, the lair, at all costs.\u201d <br><br>The businessman on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga is generous by all appearances, gives enough to gain praise, adulation and to make friends. In proportion to his wealth, he gives a pittance. There is always some attachment to the gift, some favor to be eventually reaped. The gift is a purchase in disguise. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b in giving charity would always want adulation, credit, name to be mentioned, and if it is a large amount, some control in the use of it. There are strings attached. He may even follow up years later and wreak criticism and havoc if the gift given in cash or kind is not maturing in value. <br><br>In contrast, the devotee of God on the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga would know that he was only giving to himself through indirection, and place his gift freely in the hands of those he trusts. Trust is always preceded by love. There is no difference between the two, except the method of follow-up. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b becomes the law. The kriy\u0101 m\u0101rg\u012b knows that divine law will work for him if he follows the path of righteousness, while the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b is driven to manipulate the law in fulfillment of each of his concerns. <br><br>Emotional ups and downs are contingent to the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. Four steps forward, three steps backward, a step to the side, six steps forward, two steps backward, a step to the side, six steps backward, three steps forward, a step to the side\u2014it is an amazing dance. It\u2019s a maze. They all think they are going someplace. This dance of ignorance is not one of Lord \u015aiva\u2019s favorite dances, though it is definitely one of His dances. He does it with a smile and a sneer, mirth and a tear on His face. He actually has most of the world doing this dance now. Ignorance is equally distributed throughout the planet. The intrinsic ability to ignore, consistently and persistently, the eternal truths of the San\u0101tana Dharma is one of the great qualifications of the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b. <br><br>Television is a window into the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. We see extremely successful professional people who maybe have started on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga and have bypassed it to the artful acting portrayal of people on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. We can see in their eyes, they have a life that is seeking and searching, understanding and knowing, and their magnetism keeps them before the public year after year after year. These are the professionals. Then we see on TV the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012bs by the dozens. They come and go, are hired and not rehired. <br><br>Before the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, there is only confusion, unqualified thoughts, desires that are only motivative or directional, not crystallized into any kind of a concept that can be manifested toward a fulfillment. The confusion arises out of the drive for self preservation. All animal instincts are alive in such a human being. He does not hold to promises, does not seek to strive, is a proverbial burden on society. Society is made up of \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012bs and those who live in the other m\u0101rgas. Deception, theft, murder, anger, jealousy and fear are often the occupation and the emotions of those living without a personal identity, a well-defined ego. <br><br>A personal identity and well-defined ego is the \u0101\u1e47ava, and the pursuit of the development of that is the m\u0101rga. Each purusha, human soul, must go through the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, a natural and required path whose bloom is the fulfillment of the senses, of the intellect and all the complexities of doing. It is prior to our entrance upon the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga and while we are happily on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga that we create the karmas to be understood and overcome later when we walk the chary\u0101 and kriy\u0101 m\u0101rgas. You have to understand before you can overcome. This is the time that we \u201cdo ourselves in\u201d and later understand the all-pervasiveness of \u015aiva, the laws of karma, dharma, sa\u1e41s\u0101ra. Yes, of course, this is the time the mischief is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-Concern, Self-Preservation People who are living totally on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga are not religious, and if attending religious functions, they stand with folded arms, on the outside looking in. Their only emotions are for themselves, their immediate family and friends, but only if the latter prove useful to them. 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