{"id":1271,"date":"2026-10-10T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:37:28","slug":"lesson-182-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-182-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 182 \u2013 Dancing 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\/2026\/01\/DwS-Lesson-027.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\">How is our soul different from \u015aiva?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 27<br>Our soul body was created in the image and likeness of the Primal Soul, God \u015aiva, but it differs from the Primal Soul in that it is immature. While \u015aiva is unevolutionary perfection, we are in the process of evolving. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>To understand the mysteries of the soul, we distinguish be\u00adtween the soul body and its essence. As a soul body, we are indi\u00advidual and unique, different from all others, a self-effulgent being of light which evolves and matures through an evolutionary pro\u00adcess. This soul body is of the nature of God \u015aiva, but is different from \u015aiva in that it is less resplendent than the Primal Soul and still evolving, while God is unevolutionary perfection. We may liken the soul body to an acorn, which contains the mighty oak tree but is a small seed yet to develop. The soul body ma\u00adtures through experience, evolving through many lives in\u00ad\u00ad\u00adto the splendor of God \u015aiva, ultimately realizing \u015aiva totally in nirvikalpa sam\u0101dhi. Even after Self Realization is at\u00adtained, the soul body continues to evolve in this and other worlds un\u00adtil it merges with the Primal Soul, as a drop of water merges with its source, the ocean. Yea, this is the destiny of all souls without exception. The Vedas say, \u201cAs oil in sesame seeds, as butter in cream, as wa\u00adter in river beds, as fire in friction sticks, so is the \u0101tman grasped in one\u2019s own self when one searches for Him with truthfulness and austerity.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is our soul different from \u015aiva? \u015aLOKA 27Our soul body was created in the image and likeness of the Primal Soul, God \u015aiva, but it differs from the Primal Soul in that it is immature. While \u015aiva is unevolutionary perfection, we are in the process of evolving. Aum. BH\u0100SHYATo understand the mysteries of the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-182-dancing-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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}