{"id":1458,"date":"2026-11-09T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-212-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-212-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 212 \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-212.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\">Robotic Learning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A human teacher would know the student\u2019s state of mind and special gifts or needs, and society would guide him. While teaching English, French, German or any of the fourteen major languages of India, all the teacher\u2019s good qualities go into the student, enriching and blessing him, along with the experience the teacher has gained through the years. When the magic happens, a certain amount \u201crubs off,\u201d and a life is transformed. This is real education. This is training through samprad\u0101ya\u2014people to people, heart to heart, mind to mind, soul to soul. This is how it used to be and how it still can be. <br><br>In a student-teacher relationship, the novice must deal directly with a human, talk to a human, be with a human, and love or hate this human, as the case may be, depending on the student\u2019s evolution or spiritual development, not to mention that teacher\u2019s own personal qualities. But school classes, from the lower grades to the highest are tending to dispense with human contact by replacing humans with machines. These are not just machines to write letters on, design buildings with or do the many other things this remarkable technology can do, but machines of learning that do not have a heart, machines which the child has total control over, machines which parents and teachers sometimes use to subdue or occupy a child for hours, and thus simplify their own duties. <br><br>That\u2019s the big problem\u2014the complete isolation. He can turn it on. He can turn it off. He can disagree with what is being taught or totally misunderstand, and no one ever knows. These children are deprived of life\u2019s most precious gift, the passing down of knowledge, with respect and love for the knowledge imparted, at certain psychological moments in a child\u2019s life. These children are deprived of the fulfillment gained by learning from a person with a heart, a person yearning to fulfill dharma and pass on his knowledge and, most importantly, his knowing earned through experience and his passion about the subject he ardently wishes to convey to youthful minds. This can never, ever be programmed into any software on the Internet or burned into a CD-ROM. <br><br>The Information Highway is an uncensored, unsupervised world. In all previous methods of conveying knowledge to children, there was a responsible adult involved, be it a teacher or librarian or parent. But the Internet\u2019s vast spectrum of information is equally available to every individual with access\u2014at last count hundreds of millions. Sadly, we are developing a generation\u2014or two generations, for one is already established\u2014of heartless children, deprived of love: an unhugging, cool, calculating, computer generation exposed to worldly sights that even most adults did not encounter ten years ago. Where will it all lead? That is a question Hindu families around the world are beginning to ask.<\/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 212: FORGIVING AND SEEKING FORGIVENESS<br>\u015aiva\u2019s devotees facing death perform v\u0101san\u0101 daha tantra, reconcile with and seek forgiveness from anyone they have offended, lest they leave unresolved kukarmas to go to seed and bear bitter fruit in future births. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic Learning A human teacher would know the student\u2019s state of mind and special gifts or needs, and society would guide him. 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