{"id":1289,"date":"2026-10-13T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-185-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-185-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 185 \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\/2025\/10\/Lesson_185_lws.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\">Instilling No Fear<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no greater good than a child. Children are entrusted to their parents to be loved, guided and protected, for they are the future of the future. However, children can be a challenge to raise up into good citizenship. There are many positive ways to guide them, such as hugging, kindness, time spent explaining, giving wise direction and setting the example of what you want them to become. Most children were adults not so many years ago, in previous births. The mind they worked to develop through the great school of experience is still there, as are the results of their accomplishments and failures. They have been reborn to continue to know, to understand and to improve themselves and the community they are born into. Parents can help or inhibit this process of evolution. They have a choice. <br><br>There are six chakras, or centers of consciousness, above the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra chakra, which is the center of memory, at the base of the spine. Above the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra lies the chakra of reason. Above that is willpower. There are seven chakras below the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra, the first being fear, below it anger and below that jealousy. The choice of each individual parent is to discipline the child to advance him or her upward into reason, willpower, profound understanding and divine love, or downward into fear, anger, distrust, jealousy and selfishness\u2014personal preservation without regard for the welfare of others. <br><br>Children have an abundance of energy, and sometimes it can make them rather wild, and this can be extreme if they are consuming too much sugar. How should this be controlled by the parents? When children run around excitedly, refer to their energy as \u015aiva\u2019s pr\u0101\u1e47a within them. Congratulate them each time they exercise control over it, but don\u2019t punish them when they don\u2019t. Instead, explain that it is important that they learn to control and use their energies in positive ways. Have them sit with you and breathe deeply. Teach them to feel energy. Go into the shrine room and sit with them until their pr\u0101\u1e47as become quiet, and then help them observe the difference. To hit them or to yell at them when they are rowdy is only sending more aggravated pr\u0101\u1e47a into them from you. Another technique is to withdraw your pr\u0101\u1e47a from them and tell them you are retiring to another room until they calm down. <br><br>Beating, spanking, pinching, slapping children and inflicting upon their astral bodies the vibration of angry words are all sinfully destructive to their spiritual unfoldment and their future. Parents who thus force their child to fear and hate them have lost their chance to make him or her a better person by talking, because they have closed the child\u2019s ears. Those who beat or pinch or hurt or slap or whip their children are the enemies to religion, because they are pushing the next generation into lower consciousness. Is that religious society? No! Such behavior is not even common in the animal kingdom. It\u2019s below the animal kingdom. But that is what we face in the world today. That helps explain why there are so many problems in this modern age. <br><br>Sadly, in this day and age, beating the kids is just a way of life in many families. Nearly everyone was beaten as a child, so they beat their kids, and their kids will beat their kids, and those kids will beat their kids. Older brothers will beat younger brothers. Brothers will beat sisters. You can see what families are creating in this endless cycle of violence: little warriors. One day a war will come up, and it will be easy for a young person who has been beaten without mercy to pick up a gun and kill somebody without conscience, and even take pleasure in doing so. What kind of society do we have? In the US today, a murder is committed every thirty-three minutes, an assault every five seconds, a rape every ninety seconds. A man beats his wife every fifty-one seconds. A woman beats her husband every five and a half minutes. A 12- to 15-year-old child is assaulted every thirty-one seconds, and one is raped every eight minutes. Will the violence ever stop? No. It can\u2019t, unless a radical change is made. We must stop the war in the home. It is as simple as that. <br><br>I recently attended a ceremony in which criminals being released from the Kauai jail gave testimony before leaders of the community that they would not repeat their crime. With tears in their eyes, all said they had been beaten by their family in early life, driven out of the home, into drugs, excessive alcohol and into crime and finally jail. Each one had the same sad story to tell. <br><br>I instruct the lay missionaries of my international Hindu church: \u201cTalk to the children. Ask if their parents beat them, and then talk to the parents. At first they will say, \u2018Oh, once or twice,\u2019 but if you persist, you may find it\u2019s much worse than that.\u201d Think about it, even if a child is only hit once a month, that adds up to nearly two hundred beatings over fifteen years. I challenge child-beaters, \u201cWould you beat somebody your same weight and your same height with the same readiness?\u201d They would say no, because that\u2019s against the law. It\u2019s called assault. But hitting a little kid, is that also not against the law? More and more, it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 185: PROTECTING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees who are scientists must resist the urge to share everything they discover. Certain knowledge has proven dangerous and hurtful to mankind, especially in the hands of the unscrupulous. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instilling No Fear There is no greater good than a child. Children are entrusted to their parents to be loved, guided and protected, for they are the future of the future. However, children can be a challenge to raise up into good citizenship. 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