{"id":1082,"date":"2026-09-10T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-152-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-152-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 152 \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\/12\/MwS-Lesson-152.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\">The Pernicious, Persistent Ego<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0100\u1e47ava is one\u2019s personal ego, his identity and place in the world and position on the planet. If his motives are proper and the position is earned on account of good deeds, it is not \u0101\u1e47ava. But if, when praised, he takes credit for himself, it is \u0101\u1e47ava. \u0100\u1e47ava is the tricky substance of the mind. It is behind every door, it\u2019s peeking in every window. It is the first thing to come at birth and the last thing to go at death. To break the chain of \u0101\u1e47ava, the yoking to the Infinite beyond comprehension in any state of mind must be complete and final. And yet, while a physical body is still maintained, the \u0101\u1e47ava elf is still lurking in the shadows, saying \u201cpraise is better than blame, name must come into fame, and shame is to be avoided at all cost.\u201d This is the \u0101\u1e47ava routine. It keeps people held down on the planet in the instinctive-intellectual mind of remorse and forgiveness and suffering the adjustments to circumstance that occur beyond their power of understanding. A big gun that shoots the bullet of the depth of knowledge of karma, the second bullet, of the deep understanding of the perfect universal energies, and the third bullet, of the dharmic way of a balanced life, kills the \u0101\u1e47ava and brings that purusha onto the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga, onto the path of the Gods, the hospital of the soul at that point. The final conquering of the tenacious \u0101\u1e47ava is the final mah\u0101sam\u0101dhi, when all three worlds sing, \u201cMukti has been attained,\u201d the final goal of life that we on this planet know, merger with \u015aiva. <br><br>Because ignorance is all-pervasive, equally distributed throughout the world, one must leave the world and get a wise dome, wisdom, a wise head. He must transmute the energies from the solar plexus\u2014nothing must affect him there\u2014to his third eye, see into the past, see into the future, and with that seeing understand the present. <br><br>If we were to admit that there are really seven m\u0101rgas, we would find that chary\u0101, kriy\u0101, yoga and j\u00f1\u0101na are progressive states of fullness, and the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, by comparison, is a static state of emptiness. This feeling of emptiness is a motivative, driving force of desire toward the attainment of the feeling of fullness. The feeling of fullness is the awakening of the higher chakras, of course. And the constant feeling of completeness is, of course, the permanent awakening of the sahasr\u0101ra chakra. The feeling of emptiness distinguishes the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga from the other four m\u0101rgas, and this is why it is not included in \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta, but is not excluded either, because the \u0101\u1e47ava mala is mentioned here and there and everywhere within the scriptures. For the sake of understanding individual ego in its struggles to be whole, we have delineated it as a path leading into chary\u0101, kriy\u0101, yoga and j\u00f1\u0101na. <br><br>The path of the \u0101\u1e47ava teaches us what to do and what not to do. It creates the karmas to be lived through and faced in many lives to come. And when dharma is finally accepted and understood and the religious patterns of life are encompassed in one\u2019s own personal daily experience, then and only then do we see the end of this path in view. So, the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga is definitely not a never-ending maze or a no-man\u2019s land. Though a state of ignorance, it is still a state of experiential learning. All is leading, in evolution of the soul, to San\u0101tana Dharma. <br><br>Everything preceding chary\u0101 is \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. People try to fill their emptiness with things. They work so hard for their money, thinking, \u201cOh, when I can buy this object for my home I will feel fulfilled.\u201d They buy it with their hard-earned money. A day or two later, after ownership has taken effect, the initial fulfillment of ownership wanes, and unfulfillment, which has always been there, takes over, with the accompanying desire for the next fulfillment, object, or in the case of the intellectual, the next idea, group of ideas or new sphere of knowledge. There is no fulfillment in the instinctive-intellectual mind. This is the way it is. This is the way it has always been, and always will be, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pernicious, Persistent Ego \u0100\u1e47ava is one\u2019s personal ego, his identity and place in the world and position on the planet. If his motives are proper and the position is earned on account of good deeds, it is not \u0101\u1e47ava. But if, when praised, he takes credit for himself, it is \u0101\u1e47ava. \u0100\u1e47ava is the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-152-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-1082","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\/1082","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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}