{"id":1364,"date":"2026-10-25T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-197-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-197-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 197 \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\/09\/LwS-Lesson-197.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\">The Curse Of Profanity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people, even those who consider themselves religious, go through life using profane language to express their frustrations at each difficulty they meet. Do they know the effect of these negative mantras? Apparently not. People who swear\u2014even if it\u2019s just under their breath\u2014are cursing themselves. What does that mean? It means they are holding themselves back in life. They are demeaning themselves and making themselves unsuccessful. Their lack of success will create more frustrations within the home, and more swearing. Even thinking a swear word is a mantra. <br><br>Why do people repeat mantras? To generate a positive force for successful life. Why do people swear mentally, under their breath, or verbally, or at their children, or at their wives, or wives at their husbands? To vent their anger, spite or sarcasm, or just by mindless habit. But in the process they unleash a negative force that will ruin their lives and break up their homes. Every time you swear, that swearing goes into your subconscious and hooks up with all the other swear words you\u2019ve said since you were a kid. <br><br>Many people habitually say, \u201cI\u2019ll be damned,\u201d \u201cDamn you,\u201d or \u201cDamn it\u201d as emphatic figures of speech. But all speech has its effect. Such mantras block their future and bind them to what they wish on others or crassly blurt out. This is a good way to curse oneself, to be sure\u2014to build up a big balloon of negative energy. Under that negative force, they will never be able to relax or enjoy a vacation. Many people live together as a family, but their home is broken, their lives are broken, because they broke their own heart and forfeited their own courage simply by swearing a repeated mantra. Using profane language is a curse upon the system we call life. <br><br>What is even worse is knowing you shouldn\u2019t do something and then doing it anyway, even knowing why you shouldn\u2019t do it and doing it anyway\u2014knowing why you shouldn\u2019t swear, why you shouldn\u2019t be abusive to the children, why you shouldn\u2019t be abusive to the spouse, and then doing it anyway! It has a triple impact of negative force on the subconscious mind of the individual if he knows what he is doing to himself and to the minds of others, if he knows the law and yet ignores the law, the divine karmic law that he accepted. <br><br>Now, having heard this, if you continue to break the law, you bring a triple curse upon yourself! That is the built-in pr\u0101ya\u015bchitta, the automatic penance or penalty. Those of you who know how the subconscious mind and the sub of the subconscious mind work can see the negative impact very, very clearly. And if you continue knowingly doing what you know is harmful to you, you will earn a bad birth. Do you want that? Maybe you do. Or maybe you don\u2019t believe in reincarnation. Well, it\u2019s going to happen anyway. <br><br>I was on a United Airlines flight. A stewardess spilled something. She didn\u2019t use the \u201cd\u201d word or the \u201cs\u201d word. She kept a smile on her face and cleaned up the mess! Why didn\u2019t she swear? Because if you\u2019re an employee on a United Airlines flight you don\u2019t swear, or else you don\u2019t take the next flight! That\u2019s why. This shows there is an integrity built within everyone by which they can break a habit cycle if it means some benefits to them. In this case it was financial benefit, also avoiding the embarrassment of losing her job. <br><br>The motivation to change isn\u2019t that clear when, for example, someone is working at a construction site where everyone else is also swearing. But the motivation to stop swearing should be clear, because it takes its toll even if you don\u2019t realize it. It is simply taking longer to lose your job, because swearing will make you less productive, less efficient, less liked by others. You\u2019ll be cheated, you\u2019ll make wrong financial decisions, and your income will go down. Your inspiration will go down. You can count on it, because you are repeating mantras to destroy everything that you have. You won\u2019t be able to appreciate that sunset. You will be so confused on the inside that all you\u2019ll see is your own mind. Avoiding all that should be the motivation; but the effect of swearing is slow, insidious, and in most cases not appreciated.<\/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 197: NOT USING DANGEROUS DRUGS<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician. They know their devastating effects. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curse Of Profanity Many people, even those who consider themselves religious, go through life using profane language to express their frustrations at each difficulty they meet. Do they know the effect of these negative mantras? Apparently not. People who swear\u2014even if it\u2019s just under their breath\u2014are cursing themselves. What does that mean? 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