{"id":2351,"date":"2026-04-02T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-357-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-357-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 357 \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\/08\/MwS-Lesson-357.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\">Beyond Liberation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the later stages of evolution, physical life can be so joyous that one might ask, \u201cWhy wish for liberation?\u201d But not wanting to be reborn is not the goal. Obtaining the stability of mind and spirit so that you can function even on the physical plane better, without the necessity of having to do so, is a better goal. After mukti, liberation, one still has responsibilities to complete certain karmic patterns. Even the sapta \u1e5bishis, seven sages, have their offices to perform in guiding the San\u0101tana Dharma, though they do not have to be reborn in a physical body to do their job. Mukti does not call an end to intelligence, does not call an end to duty. Mukti calls an end to the necessity for a physical birth. It\u2019s like death\u2014you don\u2019t want to die, but you do anyway. When on the inner plane, you don\u2019t want to be reborn, but you are anyway. You have to do these things. The ideal is to live out one\u2019s Earthly life to its full extent, not to shorten it in any way, for during the elderly years, after ninety and the twenty or thirty years thereafter, the sa\u00f1chita karmas in the great vault which are waiting to come up in another life begin to unfold to be lived through and resolved in this one. By no means should suicide ever be considered, for it cuts short all karmic developments of the current life and may require additional births to work through the lowest possible experiences still held in the great sa\u00f1chita vault. Many incarnations may elapse after an untimely self-inflicted death before the soul returns back to the same evolutionary point at which the suicide was committed. Suicide is no escape. It only prolongs the journey. <br><br>The goal is realization of Para\u015biva as the ultimate personal attainment. This is nirvikalpa sam\u0101dhi. Savikalpa is the by-product of this. Even having had this experience, if the s\u0101dhana and tapas and discipline are not maintained, mukti, liberation, will not be the product of effort. The knowledge of Para\u015biva, in its total impact, must impact every area of mind, every nook and cranny of the mind. Therefore, the goal is realization; and liberation from rebirth is the by-product of that essential goal. If a soul becomes realized but still has the desire to come back to finish something, he will come back partially enlightened. Hinduism will be an open book to him, and he will understand all of the basic truths and be able to explain it all naturally. He will find his enlightenment later in life and go on, having experienced what he had to. <br><br>There is a choice one makes upon becoming illumined and understanding the whole process\u2014whether to be a bodhisattva or an arahat, an upade\u015b\u012b or a nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b. This is based on a belief and an attitude in the heart and soul. A nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b says, \u201cI\u2019ll move on and wait for everyone to catch up with me.\u201d An upade\u015b\u012b says, \u201cI\u2019ll help everyone on the path.\u201d Occasionally an upade\u015b\u012b has tasks to fulfill, but they are self-assigned, for this is a personal choice. Likewise, a nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b will work and make a great attainment. Then he will spin out his own karmas and make his transition. The upade\u015b\u012b will make his attainment and then work with his own karmas slowly while helping others along the path. Who is to say which is the best choice? It\u2019s a totally individual matter. I personally am an upade\u015b\u012b. No detail is too small for me to handle. A nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b would not take that attitude. <br><br>In the inner worlds, one who has transcended the need for a physical birth is there like he is here. He has a twenty-four-hour consciousness. He does not have to eat unless he wants to, and he doesn\u2019t have to sleep, so he has a total continuity of consciousness. He has Para\u015biva at will and is all-pervasive all of the time. He does have duties. He does relate to brother souls in the same stratum, and he does evolve, continuing in evolution from chakra to chakra to chakra, for there are chakras, or n\u0101\u1e0d\u012bs, above the sahasr\u0101ra for which he does not need a physical body. This, again, is for the upade\u015b\u012b. The nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b would not turn back, but proceed onward. The first realization of Para\u015biva, the impact of the aftermath, allows you the decision to choose between the dispassion of the nirv\u0101\u1e47\u012b and the compassion of the upade\u015b\u012b. <br><br>The \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta perspective is that \u015aiva\u2019s wonderful universe of form is perfect at every point of time, complete and totally just, and every soul, in all stages of evolution, is an intrinsic part of it, even \u015aiva Himself. The true mukti of everyone and of the universe itself would be at mah\u0101pralaya; but meanwhile, mukti is defined in our vocabulary as freedom from rebirth in a physical body. But many other bodies drop off, too. There are more intelligences to come into, great creations of form. Upon death, even a Self-Realized soul does not necessarily \u201cdisappear\u201d into nothingness or Allness. The absolute goal, Para\u015biva\u2014timeless, formless and causeless\u2014is a release, but not an end. There is, of course, an end, which we call vi\u015bvagr\u0101sa. This is total merger, a union with That from which the soul never returns\u2014j\u012bva became \u015aiva. So, whatever inner body the j\u012bvanmukta is functioning in, in the thereafter, he has no need for Self Realization, the seal has already been broken and never mends. So, claiming \u201cI am That, I am\u201d\u2014That being the Absolute, Para\u015biva\u2014is the total stabilizing one-ment of all the m\u0101y\u0101s of creation, preservation and destruction of the individual mind, as well as the mind of reality it goes through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Liberation In the later stages of evolution, physical life can be so joyous that one might ask, \u201cWhy wish for liberation?\u201d But not wanting to be reborn is not the goal. 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