{"id":1088,"date":"2026-09-11T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-153-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-153-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 153 \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-153.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\">Bound to The Path<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A powerful businessman, a bum on the street, a highly educated scientist and the uneducated field worker could all be sharing the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. It is a path of gratification of the ego, or the gratification of other persons\u2019 egos. These days egos get gratified by going to heads of corporations, meeting important people and bowing before heads of state. It is on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga that we learn that rich and poor, the powerful and lowly are all purushas, pure souls, j\u012bvas encompassed in a physical body. And on this m\u0101rga we learn to bow before God and the Gods. We learn that their home, their officiating place, is the temple, the home shrine and under sacred trees. Being in their presence makes the chary\u0101 m\u0101rg\u012b feel small. The first glimmer of the feeling of smallness is the first footstep on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga. <br><br>Those who are not successful in life yet, and experience the repercussion of karmas of past lives denying them things, experiences, security and wealth, are the ruthless \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012bs. For those who have fulfilled their dharmas, and desire has waned for more\u2014they don\u2019t need more money, they don\u2019t need more food, they don\u2019t need more houses, they don\u2019t need more respect\u2014the \u0101\u1e47ava wanes of its own accord, like an old leaf on a tree turns color and falls to the ground. They enter the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga and kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga with matured respect and humility. <br><br>The one who has little desires the most. He takes issues with the smallest things. The instinctive desire to save face is ever prevalent in his mind, for his face is all he\u2019s got. He doesn\u2019t have anything more. The rich and \u0101\u1e47avically powerful can buy new things, and when something goes wrong in life, change their image by retreating into their money, place, prestige and come out anew. Those full of \u0101\u1e47ava who have satisfied, put to rest, the many desires of life, entering the chary\u0101, kriy\u0101 and yoga m\u0101rgas gain a new spiritual face, a light in the eye and become looked up to even more than they were when they were sought out for donations for worthy causes. <br><br>Even the j\u012bvanmukta doesn\u2019t like unjust criticisms, but he is bound by his wisdom to nondefensiveness, just, unjust, true or false. \u201cLet them say what they have to say, and if it affects me, it is helping me on the way to my final mukti.\u201d He would bless them for that. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b is not like people on the other m\u0101rgas, who have mixed feelings about these issues. The \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b is a prefect in retaliation. That comes as one of the powers or boons of living on this m\u0101rga, along with deception and the ability to lie one\u2019s way out of a situation. And to save face, place and position, no matter how lowly they might seem, is the goal of life for the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b. So, one should never drive the yoga m\u0101rg\u012bs, kriy\u0101 m\u0101rg\u012bs back to the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, because they would maintain their higher vision and be masters of the art and win at every turn. They should be left alone to pursue their goals. <br><br>In the \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta system of understanding, the progressive m\u0101rgas define the unfoldment of the individual soul, or the awakening of the chakras. When one comes to the temple because he wants to, has to and needs to live near one, he is on the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga. This does not mean the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga has not gone away or he has lost his personal identity. There is a little of the \u0101\u1e47ava always with us right up to the moment of mukti. The \u0101\u1e47ava presides through the fourteen chakras, but is most expressive before the awakening of the knowledge of the Gods and their abilities as helpmates to spiritual unfoldment. You don\u2019t get off the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. Individual ego slowly diminishes as the soul unfolds from m\u0101rga to m\u0101rga. Nandi the bull represents the ego, personal identity, and in a large traditional Hindu temple, we see many images of Nandi, getting progressively smaller as we approach the innermost sanctum. This indicates the soul\u2019s progression toward God or the diminishing ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bound to The Path A powerful businessman, a bum on the street, a highly educated scientist and the uneducated field worker could all be sharing the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga. It is a path of gratification of the ego, or the gratification of other persons\u2019 egos. 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