{"id":1285,"date":"2026-10-12T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-184-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-184-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 184 \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\/2025\/01\/DwS-Lesson-29.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\">Why Are We Not Omniscient Like \u015aiva?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 29<br>The three bonds of \u0101\u1e47ava, karma and m\u0101y\u0101 veil our sight. This is \u015aiva\u2019s purposeful limiting of awareness which allows us to evolve. In the superconscious depths of our soul, we share God \u015aiva\u2019s all-knowingness. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>Just as children are kept from knowing all about adult life until they have matured into understanding, so too is the soul\u2019s knowledge limited. We learn what we need to know, and we understand what we have experienced. Only this narrowing of our awareness, coupled with a sense of individualized ego, allows us to look upon the world and our part in it from a practical, human point of view. P\u0101\u015ba is the soul\u2019s triple bondage: m\u0101y\u0101, karma and \u0101\u1e47ava. Without the world of m\u0101y\u0101, the soul could not evolve through experience. Karma is the law of cause and effect, action and reaction governing m\u0101y\u0101. \u0100\u1e47ava is the individuating veil of duality, source of ignorance and finitude. M\u0101y\u0101 is the classroom, karma the teacher, and \u0101\u1e47ava the student\u2019s ignorance. The three bonds, or malas, are given by Lord \u015aiva to help and protect us as we unfold. Yet, God \u015aiva\u2019s all-knowingness may be experienced for brief periods by the meditator who turns within to his own essence. The Tirumantiram explains, \u201cWhen the soul attains Self-knowledge, then it becomes one with \u015aiva. The malas perish, birth\u2019s cycle ends and the lustrous light of wisdom dawns.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are We Not Omniscient Like \u015aiva? \u015aLOKA 29The three bonds of \u0101\u1e47ava, karma and m\u0101y\u0101 veil our sight. This is \u015aiva\u2019s purposeful limiting of awareness which allows us to evolve. In the superconscious depths of our soul, we share God \u015aiva\u2019s all-knowingness. Aum. 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