{"id":1075,"date":"2026-09-09T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-151-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-151-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 151 \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-151.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\">Surrender Is The Way Out<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The yoga m\u0101rga must come naturally out of intense bhakti and internalized worship. The intensity of bhakti is developed on the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga. The final remains of the ego are pulverized on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga, where Sivathondu, selfless service, is performed unrelentingly with no thought of reward, but a hope that the pu\u1e47ya, merit, will be beneficial in the long run. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga is easy to leave through total surrender to God, Gods and guru, along with seva, service to religious institutions. Surrender, prapatti, is the key. All the religions\u2019 teachings teach surrender to the divine forces. Great suffering, the psychic surgery kind of suffering, great repentance, is experienced in the overlapping of the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga with the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. The beginning knowledge of Hindu temple worship, scripture, being dragged into it by some aggressive teacher, later a desire for reconciliation\u2014all this leads to penance, pr\u0101ya\u015bchitta, followed by serious s\u0101dhana. It is not without a great ordeal and effort, soul-searching and decision-making that one m\u0101rga bends into the other or bows before the other before it releases the consciousness to go on. One m\u0101rga must really bend before the other before one can be released. Before entering another m\u0101rga, it is a matter of giving up, which is painful, most especially for the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga people, for whom suffering is no stranger. <br><br>How can someone on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga be convinced that there is a better way to live, think and act? The word here is pursuit. We are talking about pursuit. \u0100\u1e47ava people are always pursuing something, the fulfillment comes on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, and there is fulfillment, but in a never-stopping pursuit of fulfillment. As soon as we stop the pursuit of fulfillment, we become unhappy, empty, feel unfulfilled and, I might even say, at times depressed. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga is the I-ness, me-ness, mine-ness; me, my, I. \u201cI want, I give, I get, I collect.\u201d I, me and mine are the key words here. The true \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b is the owner, the getter, the consumer, not always the producer, vulnerable to the emotions of fear, who uses jealousy as an asset to obtain. Anger is the motivating power to fulfill desire, by stimulating fear in others. He is a master of deceit. The true \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b, perfected in the art, has at his beck and call the eighty-four wiles of the lower emotions. <br><br>Why would someone begin to feel the need to change to a nicer way of life? The word why is the important word here. They are questioning, they are asking, they are intuiting another way of life. They have observed, obviously, others living a fuller life, fulfilled by the fulfillments of their pursuits, having left the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. \u0100\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012bs have become aware of the existence of the chary\u0101 m\u0101rg\u012bs and maybe a kriy\u0101 m\u0101rg\u012b or two. It is the very force of the desire of pursuit that leads the purusha, the soul, to the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga into \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta. I see the whole thing like a tunnel\u2014the karma m\u0101rga, the m\u0101y\u0101 m\u0101rga, the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga, the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga, yoga m\u0101rga\u2014which the soul matures through as a child matures from a child to an adult. The problem is that it takes a little doing to define the pursuit. Therefore, the entrance of this tunnel, to be a good \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b, is kind of crowded, and this is where the problem lies. To truly get on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, to define the ego\u2019s identity, one must have the goal of pursuit. <br><br>There are two m\u0101rgas before the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga begins, within the realm of deep ignorance. Here reside the masses who live in confusion, the professional consumers who know the generosity of society, who will never in this lifetime manifest a desire, a goal, a thought for the future worthy enough to be accepted on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. They are the slaves of the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012bs, those whom, as slaves, they manipulate without conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrender Is The Way Out The yoga m\u0101rga must come naturally out of intense bhakti and internalized worship. The intensity of bhakti is developed on the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga. 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