{"id":1370,"date":"2026-10-26T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-198-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-198-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 198 \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-198.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 Courage To Change<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s up to the individual to stand on his own two feet, take his life in his own hands, his karmas in his own hands, to bear his karma cheerfully and work with it. Nobody else can do that for you. Gurus and sw\u0101m\u012bs can point the way and give certain s\u0101dhanas, but they cannot do it for you. They won\u2019t do it for you. If they did do it for you, it wouldn\u2019t do you any good! <br><br>People who are cynical are expressing their anger and contempt with snide remarks. They may seem to be joking, but their sharp feelings come across anyway, which stimulates that lower chakra until one day their cynicism will turn into really good anger. Then they build up new karmas they never had before, which they will live with until they are faced with those karmas. <br><br>Some devotees take pride in saying, \u201cI\u2019ve been with Gurudeva for forty-five years.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been with Gurudeva for thirty years.\u201d But if you ask them, \u201cDo you still get angry?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d they say. \u201cWhat have you realized?\u201d \u201cWell, that I shouldn\u2019t get angry.\u201d \u201cDo you still get angry?\u201d \u201cUh-huh, yes, sometimes.\u201d Those people haven\u2019t been with Gurudeva at all! They\u2019ve just been hanging around. Because the results of everything we have been teaching have not taken hold. Results have to manifest in the lives of each of you. Otherwise, you\u2019re just bodies, sitting there listening to me talk, living your own private life, living a double standard. Just bodies. So, there can be a lack of sincerity. I want my \u015bishyas to do a job, do it right, and be on to the next one, not this insincerity of playing with me, playing with my mind. I don\u2019t like that. <br><br>You can\u2019t work at correcting something. You either do it or you don\u2019t do it. You don\u2019t work at not falling off a cliff, a big precipice that drops off a hundred feet. You just don\u2019t step forward; that\u2019s what you don\u2019t do! When you come to the point where you hear about the Self, and you get interested in the Self, you\u2019re at a point where you can break the cycle of certain karmas through s\u0101dhana. You\u2019re either going to do it or you\u2019re going to think, \u201cOh, that\u2019s kind of silly, you know. It\u2019s really nice to listen to Gurudeva, but to actually take these teachings seriously and make changes in my life, well\u2026ho hum.\u201d That kind of attitude, that kind of ho-hum, lazy attitude, also results in making new karmas, because others look at you as an example and take up your example. It\u2019s living a double life that I am talking about. It depends on the strength of the person\u2019s soul whether he actually makes some definite changes in his character or not. <\/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 198: CHILDREN SAY NO TO DRUGS<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees educate their children to say no to any and all known or unknown illicit drugs offered to them, whether by friends or strangers. Pure and well informed by caring parents, children avoid these dangers. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courage To Change It\u2019s up to the individual to stand on his own two feet, take his life in his own hands, his karmas in his own hands, to bear his karma cheerfully and work with it. Nobody else can do that for you. Gurus and sw\u0101m\u012bs can point the way and give certain <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-198-living-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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}