{"id":208,"date":"2026-04-27T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=208"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-16-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-16-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 16 \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\/2024\/06\/gr_mws_lesson-016.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\">Awareness as a Lotus Flower<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Be That which never changes. Then what happens? When we become this spiritual body and grasp that infinite intelligence of it, we\u2019re just in a state of pure consciousness and we come into the clear white light. We have a wonderful foundation, the only foundation necessary for Self Realization\u2014at that point piercing the last veils of the mind, for even light is mind, and consciousness is, of course, the mind itself. And then we merge with the Self itself. <br><br>So, that is the path: experience, harnessing the reactions to experience, becoming the body of the soul, merging that body with the physical body after the instinctive and intellectual elements have been harmonized, coming into the clear white light, and then the realization of the Self. It\u2019s a beautiful path. It\u2019s a challenging path, and it\u2019s the path that you\u2019re on; otherwise you wouldn\u2019t be here listening to the story about the path. <br><br>See awareness as a lotus flower. The lotus flower goes through many, many experiences. A few weeks ago in Bangkok, on Innersearch, we drove out into the Thai countryside and we saw many, many lotus flowers growing wild. They\u2019re just beautiful. See awareness as a lotus flower. First awareness is a seed, and it\u2019s breaking out of the instinctive elements, the hard shell of the seed. But it\u2019s living right within the seed. It is dynamic life at that very time, tuned in with the central source of energy. Then it breaks out and it becomes roots, and then awareness becomes a stem, becomes conscious of water all around it. Finally, the stem emerges above the water, and awareness has leaves and a bud. It\u2019s still limited awareness, because it\u2019s not in its fullness. But as that awareness expands, it opens up into a beautiful lotus flower, then creates more seeds for more flowers. This is the path of awareness. Become acquainted with the awareness, that one beautiful, pure element of the soul, your super\u00adcon\u00adscious body, which is easily found and easily discovered by simply closing your eyes and opening them and saying \u201cI\u2019m aware,\u201d not necessarily of what you are aware of. Close your eyes. Say, \u201cI am aware.\u201d Awareness is closely identified to the realms of sight\u2014hearing, of course, too, but more predominantly sight. As awareness expands and as awareness contracts, we find that we have power over awareness. It merely becomes a tool. The underlying power of awareness is the blissful state of the spiritual body of man, pure consciousness, the central source of all energies, in its blissful, calm state. Meditate on awareness being like a lotus flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness as a Lotus Flower Be That which never changes. Then what happens? When we become this spiritual body and grasp that infinite intelligence of it, we\u2019re just in a state of pure consciousness and we come into the clear white light. 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