{"id":136,"date":"2026-04-16T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=136"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:00:11","slug":"lesson-5-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-5-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 5 \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-5.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\">Working with Your Karma<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Seekers more than often ask, \u201cWhy has \u015aiva given us karma to go through? Could He just have made us perfect from the beginning and avoided all the pain?\u201d My answer is: accept your karma as your own, as a healing medicine and not a poison. As you go through your self-created experiences in daily life and seed karmas awaken, as your actions come back through your emotions, even in this life, not in a future one, resolve each and every experience so that you do not react and create new cycles to be lived through. Whether it is happy karma, sad karma, miserable karma or ecstatic karma, it is your karma. But it is not you, not the real you. It is the experience that you go through in order to evolve, in order to grow and to learn and to attain, eventually, wisdom. This is all \u015aiva\u2019s mysterious work, His way of bringing along devotees, His way to bring you close and closer to Himself. <br><br>The great Vedic \u1e5bishis have explained that \u015aiva has created the body of the soul, permeated that body with His being, His essence. All souls are evolving back to His holy feet, and there are many lessons to be learned along the way. The lessons learned in the karma classroom are part of the process of evolution, the mechanism of evolution, the tool of evolution. Why did He do all of this? The \u1e5bishis give no reason. They call it His dance. That is why we worship God \u015aiva as Na\u1e6dar\u0101ja, the King of Dance. Why does one dance? Because one is full of joy. One is full of life. \u015aiva is all life, God of life, God of death that brings new life, God of birth that brings through life. He is all life and He is everything. He danced with the \u1e5bishis. He is dancing for you. You are dancing with \u015aiva. Every single atom in this room is dancing His dance. He is every part of you this very moment. By seeing Him, you see yourself. By drawing near to Him, you are drawing nearer to yourself. Our great satguru, \u015aiva Yogaswami, made a most perceptive remark. He said, \u201cThere is one thing only that God \u015aiva cannot do. He cannot separate Himself from me.\u201d He cannot separate Himself from you, because He permeates you. He is you. He created the soul, the Vedas and \u0100gamas tell us. He created your soul, and your soul is evolving, maturing through karma, through life, on its way back to Him. That is the goal of life, to know \u015aiva, to love \u015aiva and to find union in Him, to dance with \u015aiva, live with \u015aiva and merge with \u015aiva. This is what the oldest religion on the Earth teaches and believes. <br><br>\u015aiva is the God of love and nothing else but love. He \ufb01lls this universe with love. He \ufb01lls you with love. \u015aiva is \ufb01re. \u015aiva is earth. \u015aiva is air. \u015aiva is water. \u015aiva is ether. \u015aiva\u2019s cosmic energy permeates everything and gives light and life to your mind. \u015aiva is everywhere and all things. \u015aiva is your small, insigni\ufb01cant worry, the concern that you have been holding in your mind for so many years. See God \u015aiva everywhere and His life energy in all things. First we dance with \u015aiva. Then we live with \u015aiva. The end of the path is to merge with \u015aiva, the Self God within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 5: SEEKING WHILE STRONG<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees heed the ancient wisdom: \u201cThe physical body does not last forever. Age prowls like a leopard. Before the limbs lose their vitality, one should take to the auspicious path to the Self.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with Your Karma Seekers more than often ask, \u201cWhy has \u015aiva given us karma to go through? Could He just have made us perfect from the beginning and avoided all the pain?\u201d My answer is: accept your karma as your own, as a healing medicine and not a poison. 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