{"id":1069,"date":"2026-09-08T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-150-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-150-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 150 \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-150.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\">Fear, Anger and Opportunism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who want to hold a position and those who don\u2019t want to hold a position combined, those who have no time to perform s\u0101dhana, who avoid their yearly pilgrimage, whose family cannot gather in the shrine room, who do not read scripture daily and attend a temple infrequently, if at all\u2014they are doing extremely well on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, in my estimation. Their artha and k\u0101ma are coming along just fine. Dharma is ignored, and mukti just may not happen. <br><br>Many people on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga perform yoga, japa, disciplines of this kind, and gain great adulation, as well as business contacts, through it. But nothing is gained other than a few minutes of quiet and aloneness. These are the opportunists, the people who make the world go \u2019round as we see it today. <br><br>Sw\u0101m\u012bs are most precious to those on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, giving blessings, amplifying their desires; adulation is sincere but not real. The sw\u0101m\u012b is taken into their family as a personal figurehead of it, like a status symbol. They do not enter the sw\u0101m\u012b\u2019s \u0101\u015brama to do s\u0101dhana and become a part of his life. And if the sw\u0101m\u012b rebels, preaches dharma and holds back blessings, he is generally abused. \u201cLove you, use you and abuse you\u201d is the methodology of those on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. All sw\u0101m\u012bs, gurus and priests know this only too well. <br><br>The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b looks at God from a distance. He does not want to get too close and does not want to drift too far away, lives between lower consciousness and higher consciousness, between the ma\u1e47ip\u016bra, sv\u0101dhish\u1e6dhana and m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra and the lower three, atala, vitala and sutala, which represent fear, anger and jealousy. He does not get into confused thinking. That is super lower consciousness, in the realm of the tal\u0101tala chakra. He is guided by reason. That is why he can come into the other m\u0101rgas. <br><br>Therefore, God is at a distance. He sees himself pluralistically, separate from God, coexistent with God. Those who fear God anger easily. They fear their elders. They fear their government. They fear impending disaster, and they fear disease. God is just one item on the long list of things that they fear. They are not on the path of spiritual unfoldment. Their higher chakras are dreaming benignly, waiting for the consciousness to explore them. Only when someone begins to love God is he on the path of spiritual unfoldment. Only then is he a seeker. Only then does his budding love begin to focus on religious icons. Only then is he able to nurture his love into becoming a bhaktar and at the same time a religious person, a giving person. This is the chary\u0101 path. We come onto the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga from the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. We come to Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba\u2019s feet from the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. He is now the guide. The personal ego has lost its hold. <br><br>The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, and the glue that holds it together, is ignorance of the basic tenets of Hinduism. There is no way one can be on this m\u0101rga if he truly accepts the existence of God pervading all form, sustaining all form and rearranging all form. There is no way this m\u0101rga could be pursued by one understanding karma, seeing his manifest acts replayed back to him through the lives of others, his secret diabolical thoughts attacking him through the lips of others. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga does not include this knowledge. The dharma of a perfect universe and an orderly life, the consciousness of \u201cthe world is my family, all animals are my pets\u201d is an abhorrent idea to someone on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, especially if he is casted by birth in this life. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b abhors the idea of reincarnation. To pay the bill of one\u2019s indiscretions in another life is not what \u0101\u1e47ava is all about. There is a forgetfulness here. When you renounce your childhood, you forget that you ever were a child. You forget the moods, the emotions, the joys and the fears and all that was important at that time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear, Anger and Opportunism Those who want to hold a position and those who don\u2019t want to hold a position combined, those who have no time to perform s\u0101dhana, who avoid their yearly pilgrimage, whose family cannot gather in the shrine room, who do not read scripture daily and attend a temple infrequently, if at <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-150-merging-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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merging-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","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=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}