{"id":1094,"date":"2026-09-12T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-154-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-154-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 154 \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-154.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\">Exiting the \u0100\u1e47ava M\u0101rga<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0100\u1e47ava still exists in the other m\u0101rgas, but it diminishes. It first starts out as \u201cI\u2019ll do it all myself. I need no one to help me.\u201d Fulfillment comes through fulfilling each individual desire. Self-preservation is a very important part of the personal ego. But then, later, as progressive steps are taken, spiritual identity fulfills the emptiness, as water fills up a container. Only at the moment that mukti occurs does the container vanish. Until then the \u0101\u1e47ava is like smoldering coals in a burnt-out fire. New wood can be thrown upon them. They can be fanned up. Detractors to a spiritual movement will often try to reawaken the \u0101\u1e47ava of its leader and kill out the rival movement by creating his downfall. <br><br>\u0100\u1e47ava comes strongly to the Hindu when not living up to Hindu Dharma, when not performing s\u0101dhana, when there is no desire for mukti. When he has a fatalistic view of karma, when his San\u0101tana Dharma does not include pilgrimage once a year, daily reading of scripture, home p\u016bj\u0101, temple worship, when he is overly involved in the acquisition of wealth, ignoring all the other goals of life\u2014we have here the makings of a fine \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b. Being overly involved with personal pleasures, k\u0101ma, neglecting artha, not understanding karma, we have the makings of a wonderful \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rg\u012b. Being overly involved in dharma or the desire for mukti, we have here the makings of a wonderful karma yog\u012b, bhakti yog\u012b, r\u0101ja yog\u012b, j\u00f1\u0101na yog\u012b. The normal Hindu needs a normal balance of all the goals. It is no accident that the Hindu sages can understand the \u0101\u1e47ava within man. Yes, of course, they passed through it themselves and are just tapping their own memory patterns, seeing the actions of others and knowing the outcome. <br><br>As the soul leaves the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga and enters the chary\u0101 path, a budding love begins to unfold. He is now conscious in the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra chakra, looking out through the window of memory and reason at the world around him. His personal ego, which had until recently been well placed on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga, is feeling bruised. It now has to deal with some very real challenges\u2014loving one\u2019s country, loving the world, family, friends. The chary\u0101 m\u0101rga brings him into penance, which eventually brings him into s\u0101dhana, which is regulated penance. Without s\u0101dhana, penance tends to be spontaneous, erratic; whereas consistent s\u0101dhana is the regulation of penance. Now the soul begins dropping off the bonds of karma, m\u0101y\u0101 and \u0101\u1e47ava as it unfolds into bhakti, love. This is true \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta. All this is not without being a painful process. Therefore, the protective mechanism of fear, which in itself is an avoidance process, is right there to help\u2014in the chakra just below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra. The presence or absence of spiritual surrender and willingness to serve shows whether a person is on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga or on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga. Devotees on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga are striving to unfold spiritually and reach the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga. People on the \u0101\u1e47ava m\u0101rga are not striving at all. They are their own self-appointed teachers and proceed at their own pace. When we are on the chary\u0101 m\u0101rga, we have a lot of help from family, friends and our entire religious community. When we are on the kriy\u0101 m\u0101rga, the entire Hindu community, the elders and others all get behind us to help us along our way. Then when we are finally on the yoga m\u0101rga, we have all the saptha \u1e5bishis helping us. The satgurus are helping, too, and all three million sw\u0101m\u012bs and s\u0101dhus in the world are helping us along the path at this stage. When we have entered the j\u00f1\u0101na m\u0101rga, we are bringing forth new knowledge, giving forth blessings and meeting the karmas that unwind until mukti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiting the \u0100\u1e47ava M\u0101rga \u0100\u1e47ava still exists in the other m\u0101rgas, but it diminishes. It first starts out as \u201cI\u2019ll do it all myself. I need no one to help me.\u201d Fulfillment comes through fulfilling each individual desire. Self-preservation is a very important part of the personal ego. 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