{"id":138,"date":"2026-04-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:00:10","slug":"lesson-5-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-5-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 5 \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-5.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\">What Is the Ultimate Goal of Earthly Life?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 5<br>The ultimate goal of life on Earth is to realize the Self, the rare attainment of nirvikalpa sam\u0101dhi. Each soul discovers its \u015aivaness, Absolute Reality, Para\u015biva\u2014the timeless, formless, spaceless Self God. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>The realization of the Self, Para\u015biva, is the destiny of each soul, attainable through renunciation, sustained medi\u00adtation and frying the seeds of karmas yet to germinate. It is the gateway to moksha, liberation from re\u00adbirth. The Self lies be\u00adyond the thinking mind, beyond the feeling na\u00adture, beyond action or any movement of even the highest state of consciousness. The Self God is more solid than a neutron star, more elusive than empty space, more intimate than thought and feeling. It is ul\u00adtimate reality itself, the innermost Truth all seekers seek. It is well worth striving for. It is well worth struggling to bring the mind under the dominion of the will. After the Self is realized, the mind is seen for the unreality that it truly is. Because Self Realization must be experienced in a physical body, the soul cycles back again and again into flesh to dance with \u015aiva, live with \u015aiva and ultimate\u00adly merge with \u015aiva in un\u00addif\u00adferenti\u00adat\u00aded oneness. Yea, j\u012bva is actually \u015aiva. The Vedas explain, \u201cAs water poured into water, milk poured into milk, ghee into ghee be\u00adcome one without differentiation, even so the individual soul and the Supreme Self become one.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Ultimate Goal of Earthly Life? \u015aLOKA 5The ultimate goal of life on Earth is to realize the Self, the rare attainment of nirvikalpa sam\u0101dhi. Each soul discovers its \u015aivaness, Absolute Reality, Para\u015biva\u2014the timeless, formless, spaceless Self God. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya. BH\u0100SHYAThe realization of the Self, Para\u015biva, is the destiny of each soul, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-5-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-138","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\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}