{"id":1067,"date":"2026-09-07T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:00:04","slug":"lesson-149-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-149-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 149 \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-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\">What Are the Differing Views on Evil?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 149<br>For monistic theists, the world of m\u0101y\u0101 is \u015aiva\u2019s perfect creation, containing each thing and its opposite. For pluralistic theists, the world is tarnished with evil; thus m\u0101y\u0101 could not be the creation of a perfect God. 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 the world of m\u0101y\u0101 is intrinsically evil and imperfect, for it is clearly full of sorrow, injustice, disease and death. The soul, too, is beginninglessly tainted with \u0101\u1e47ava, or limitation. Pluralists contend that if God had created m\u0101y\u0101\u2014the material of the world\u2014or the soul, surely He would have made them flawless, and there would be no evil, for imperfection cannot arise out of Perfection. Therefore, they conclude that \u0101\u1e47ava, karma and m\u0101y\u0101 have always existed and the soul has been immersed in darkness and bondage without beginning. Monistic Siddh\u0101ntins hold that when viewed from higher consciousness, this world is seen as it truly is\u2014perfect. There is no intrinsic evil. God \u015aiva has created the principle of opposites, which are the means for the soul\u2019s maturation\u2014beauty and deformity, light and darkness, love and hate, joy and sorrow. All is God \u015aiva Himself, in Him and of Him. A perfect cosmos has issued forth from a perfect Creator. The Tirumantiram says, \u201cAll manifestations of nature are His grace. All animate and inanimate are His pure grace. As darkness, as light, the Lord\u2019s grace pervades.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are the Differing Views on Evil? \u015aLOKA 149For monistic theists, the world of m\u0101y\u0101 is \u015aiva\u2019s perfect creation, containing each thing and its opposite. For pluralistic theists, the world is tarnished with evil; thus m\u0101y\u0101 could not be the creation of a perfect God. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAPluralistic Siddh\u0101ntins hold that the world of m\u0101y\u0101 is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-149-dancing-with-siva\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}