{"id":148,"date":"2026-04-18T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:38:00","slug":"lesson-7-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-7-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 7 \u2013 Merging 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\/2025\/05\/gr_mws_lesson-007.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\">A Path Of Love<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been walking through the path of the many \u015aaiva saints on our garden temple lands. Together we have looked back through history and seen real people living real lives, doing pragmatic things, sometimes foolish things, some even hurtful. There were workers among them, royalty, housewives, yog\u012bs, businessmen, a spiritual community divided by caste but with one thing only in common. They all loved \u015aiva. That is their heritage. That is their message: that there is hope for all of us on this path to \u015aiva, hope of attaining His grace. These men and women will be remembered as they were for thousands of years. On this path, you don\u2019t have to be a great \u1e5bishi or a highly trained yog\u012b. You don\u2019t have to be a great philosopher. You don\u2019t have to know Sanskrit. Just love God, which is the Life of the life within everyone. And to realize that God is the Light of the light within everyone, you have to be very simple, very uncomplicated, so that obvious realization can manifest through your conscious mind, through your subconscious mind, through your super\u00adcon\u00adscious mind. <br><br>It\u2019s very simple: the energy within our body is the same energy that pervades the universe, and it\u2019s all emanating right out of Lord \u015aiva. It\u2019s very simple: the light that lights our thoughts, that light doesn\u2019t care\u2014it has no preferences\u2014whether it\u2019s a good thought or not a good thought. That light is illuminating every thought. Take away the thoughts, and you realize that you are just light. <br><br>The path of \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta, as you all know, is a very simple path. It\u2019s the path of love, a path of devotion, which makes you want to be self-disciplined, because to maintain a feeling of love all the time, you have to be self-disciplined. You don\u2019t discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love. <br><br>The path of \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta is worshiping God on the outside and realizing God on the inside, and when the two come together\u2014transformation! That means that you\u2019re different than you were. You have different desires. You have different motivations, different goals in life, because you\u2019ve been transformed. You look at your previous life and you say, \u201cThat\u2019s another person.\u201d Why? Because you have found something real on the inside of you. Thoughts on the inside of you\u2014they\u2019re not real, they\u2019re always changing. Feelings on the inside of you\u2014they\u2019re not real, they\u2019re always changing. \u015aiva on the inside of you is right there\u2014never changes. Those of you who hear the n\u0101da, it\u2019s the same inner sound, morning, noon and night, 365 days a year. The light that lights your thoughts, 365 days a year, twenty-four hours a day, is the same. It lights up your dreams also. And the energy of your body\u2014all coming from \u015aiva. <br><br>\u015aiva is so close to you. The Nayanars, the saints of Tamil \u015aaivism, teach us a great lesson. They did so much wrong, but they survived with just the love of \u015aiva and maintained that love without anything getting in the way of it. Of course, if you love \u015aiva, obviously you have to love everyone else. Love brings forgiveness. Love brings understanding. Love brings feeling. <br><br>All \u015aaivites of the world love \u015aiva. They love each other, and they love the Vaish\u1e47avites, the \u015a\u0101ktas, the Sm\u0101rtas, the tribal Hindus and everyone in the world, because \u015aiva\u2019s energy is working through everyone in the entire world\u2014plants, trees, animals, fish, birds. It\u2019s so simple. The object of the lesson is to make yourself a very simple, uncomplicated person. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Path Of Love We have been walking through the path of the many \u015aaiva saints on our garden temple lands. Together we have looked back through history and seen real people living real lives, doing pragmatic things, sometimes foolish things, some even hurtful. 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