{"id":186,"date":"2026-04-23T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-12-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-12-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 12 \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\/11\/LwS-Lesson-12.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\">Noninjury for Renunciates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahi\u1e41s\u0101 is the first and foremost virtue, presiding over truthfulness, nonstealing, sexual purity, patience, steadfastness, compassion, honesty and moderate appetite. The brahmach\u0101r\u012b and sanny\u0101sin must take ahi\u1e41s\u0101, noninjury, one step further. He has mutated himself, escalated himself, by stopping the abilities of being able to harm another by thought, word or deed, physically, mentally or emotionally. The one step further is that he must not harm his own self with his own thoughts, his own feelings, his own actions toward his own body, toward his own emotions, toward his own mind. This is very important to remember. And here, at this juncture, ahi\u1e41s\u0101 has a tie with satya, truthfulness. The sanny\u0101sin must be totally truthful to himself, to his guru, to the Gods and to Lord \u015aiva, who resides within him every minute of every hour of every day. But for him to truly know this and express it through his life and be a living religious example of the San\u0101tana Dharma, all tendencies toward hi\u1e41s\u0101, injuriousness, must always be definitely harnessed in chains of steel. The mystical reason is this. Because of the brahmach\u0101r\u012b\u2019s or sanny\u0101sin\u2019s spiritual power, he really has more ability to hurt someone than he or that person may know, and therefore his observance of noninjury is even more vital. Yes, this is true. A brahmach\u0101r\u012b or sanny\u0101sin who does not live the highest level of ahi\u1e41s\u0101 is not a brahmach\u0101r\u012b. <br><br>Words are expressions of thoughts, thoughts created from pr\u0101\u1e47a. Words coupled with thoughts backed up by the transmuted pr\u0101\u1e47as, or the accumulated bank account of energies held back within the brahmach\u0101r\u012b and the sanny\u0101sin, become powerful thoughts, and when expressed through words go deep into the mind, creating impressions, sa\u1e41sk\u0101ras, that last a long time, maybe forever. It is truly unfortunate if a brahmach\u0101r\u012b or sanny\u0101sin loses control of himself and betrays ahi\u1e41s\u0101 by becoming hi\u1e41s\u0101, an injurious person\u2014unfortunate for those involved, but more unfortunate for himself. When we hurt another, we scar the inside of ourself; we clone the image. The scar would never leave the sanny\u0101sin until it left the person that he hurt. This is because the pr\u0101\u1e47as, the transmuted energies, give so much force to the thought. Thus the words penetrate to the very core of the being. Therefore, angry people should get married and should not practice brahmacharya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 12: EXCELLENCE AND NONCOMPETITIVENESS<br>Those who live with \u015aiva endeavor to be their best in whatever they do, to excel and make a difference. Even so, they remain apart from the demeaning and contentious \u201cwinners and losers\u201d spirit of competition. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noninjury for Renunciates Ahi\u1e41s\u0101 is the first and foremost virtue, presiding over truthfulness, nonstealing, sexual purity, patience, steadfastness, compassion, honesty and moderate appetite. The brahmach\u0101r\u012b and sanny\u0101sin must take ahi\u1e41s\u0101, noninjury, one step further. He has mutated himself, escalated himself, by stopping the abilities of being able to harm another by thought, word or deed, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-12-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-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}