{"id":124,"date":"2026-04-14T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=124"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-3-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-3-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 3 \u2013 Living 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\/11\/LwS-Lesson-3.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\">By Experience We Evolve<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A family provides toys for the children to make them happy. \u015aiva provides karma and dharma to all of us to make us happy, to bring us closer to Him. He created an expanding and contracting universe and eventually absorbs all in the great dissolution of the cosmos. He gave birth to all souls, our \u1e5bishi-saints tell us; and we are evolving back into His image and likeness, they further explain. The toys of experience help us in our evolution, keeping us entertained so that we can learn and grow and experience our karma, dharma and other basic cosmic laws. Just as the children can laugh joyously as they play with their toys, or break them and cry or throw them at one another, hitting and hurting each other, we too can avoid duty and dharma, make karma, hurt ourselves and others, or help ourselves and others as we play with our own evolution, strengthening ourselves, learning and growing wise. <br><br>It is natural to forget about God, but there are many helpful ways that we can avoid distraction, that we can remember to keep seeing God \u015aiva everywhere. One of the practical ways to bring God \u015aiva into the midst of all this is to keep repeating His name. Do japa when you \ufb01nd yourself forgetting, when you just can\u2019t see God at all, let alone everywhere. Repeat \u201cAum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.\u201d When life becomes dif\ufb01cult or strained, say to yourself \u201c\u015aiva \u015aiva\u201d or \u201cAum \u015aiv\u0101ya\u201d or \u201cNama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.\u201d Mentally put it all at His feet. See Him in everyone that you meet or confront, regardless of the circumstances. He is there as their life force, but you just need to quiet the mind to see. Smile when you feel unhappy with someone and say to yourself, \u201cHow nice to see you, \u015aiva, in this form.\u201d Animals, beggars, princes, politicians, friends and enemies, holy men, saints and sages are all \u015aiva to the soul that loves God. He smiles and thinks to himself, \u201cHow nice to see you, \u015aiva, in this, another of your many forms.\u201d <br><br>Nobody can think of \u015aiva in His formlessness. This, above all, has to be realized, and then the realizer has to realize that he has realized the Formless. The truth is that precious few will realize Para\u015biva, though many can and will realize Satchid\u0101nanda, even in their later years or at the moment of death. The fullness of lives of experience experienced, the performance of prior goals perfected, would lead a soul to the burning desire to accomplish the ultimate goal. For each person on the planet, the immediate pattern is clear. Once it is ful\ufb01lled, the next step appears naturally. It is the same force of desire that accomplishes all of this. The desire of a mother to take care of her children and to be a good wife, the desire of the father to support his family, the desire of a scientist to discover, the desire of an athlete to excel, the desire of the yog\u012b to merge in oneness with \u015aiva\u2014it is the same force of desire, transmuted through the chakras as they awaken, as the soul evolves. It is that same desire that \ufb01nally draws the seeker to know That which is timeless and formless, That which is spaceless and causeless. Be patient. It comes in the course of time to all. It comes. It will come. Be patient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 3: SEEING \u015aIVA&#8217;S ENERGY IN ALL<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees bask contentedly in \u015aiva consciousness, seeing the pure life energy in every person, animal, bird, reptile, fish, insect, plant, tree and even microscopic intelligence as Supreme God \u015aiva Himself. 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