{"id":132,"date":"2026-04-15T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T03:00:08","slug":"lesson-4-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-4-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 4 \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\/2024\/06\/DwS-lesson-4.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Recording: Gurudeva&#8217;s real 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 Can We Learn to Dance with \u015aiva?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 4<br>Dance is movement, and the most exquisite dance is the most disciplined dance. Hindu spiritual disciplines lead to oneness with God through self-reflection, surrender, personal transformation and the many yogas. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>To progress on the path, we study theVedas, other scriptures and our guru\u2019s teachings and make every ef\u00adfort to apply these philosophical truths to daily experience. We strive to un\u00adder\u00adstand the mind in its fourfold na\u00adture: chitta, con\u00adscious\u00adness; manas, instinctive mind; buddhi, in\u00adtellectual mind; and aha\u1e41\u00ad\u00adk\u0101ra, ego or I-maker. We per\u00adform japa, meditation and yoga each day. Such spiritual discipline is known as s\u0101dhana. It is the mystical, mental, physical and devotional exercise that enables us to dance with \u015aiva by bringing inner advance\u00adment, changes in perc\u00adeption and improvements in character. S\u0101dhana al\u00adlows us to live in the refined and cultured soul nature, rather than in the outer, in\u00adstinctive or intellectual spheres. For consistent progress, s\u0101dhana should be performed regularly, without fail, at the same time each day, preferably in the early hours before dawn. The most im\u00adportant s\u0101dhanas are the chal\u00adlenges and practices given by one\u2019s guru. The Vedas caution, \u201cThe Self cannot be at\u00adtained by the weak, nor by the careless, nor through aim\u00ad\u00adless dis\u00adciplines. But if one who knows strives by right means, his soul enters the abode of God.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Can We Learn to Dance with \u015aiva? \u015aLOKA 4Dance is movement, and the most exquisite dance is the most disciplined dance. Hindu spiritual disciplines lead to oneness with God through self-reflection, surrender, personal transformation and the many yogas. Aum. BH\u0100SHYATo progress on the path, we study theVedas, other scriptures and our guru\u2019s teachings and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-4-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-132","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\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}