{"id":2387,"date":"2026-04-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2025-04-13T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-362-dancing-with-siva-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-362-dancing-with-siva-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 362 \u2013 Dancing 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\/DwS-lesson-52.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Recording: Gurudeva\u2019s 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\">What Is Sin? How Can We Atone for It?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 52<br>Sin is the intentional transgression of divine law. There is no inherent or \u201coriginal\u201d sin. Neither is there mortal sin by which the soul is forever lost. Through s\u0101dhana, worship and austerities, sins can be atoned for. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>What men term sin, the wise call ignorance. Man\u2019s true na\u00adture is not sullied by sin. Sin is related only to the lower, in\u00ad\u00adstinctive intellectual nature as a transgression of dharma. Still, sin is real and to be avoided, for our wrong\u00adful ac\u00adtions return to us as sorrow through the law of karma. Sin is terminable, and its effects may be com\u00adpensated for by penance, or pr\u0101ya\u015bchitta, and good deeds which settle the karmic debt. The young soul, less in tune with his soul nature, is inclined toward sin; the old soul seldom transgresses divine law. Sins are the crippling distortions of intellect bound in emotion. When we sin, we take the ener\u00adgy and distort it to our in\u00adstinctive favor. When we are unjust and mean, hateful and holding re\u00adsent\u00adments year after year and no one but ourselves knows of our in\u00adtrigue and corruption, we suffer. As the soul evolves, it even\u00adtually feels the great burden of faults and mis\u00addeeds and wishes to atone. Pen\u00adance is performed, and the soul seeks absolution from society and beseeches God\u2019s ex\u00adonerating grace. The Vedas say, \u201cLoose me from my sin as from a bond that binds me. May my life swell the stream of your river of Right.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is Sin? How Can We Atone for It? \u015aLOKA 52Sin is the intentional transgression of divine law. There is no inherent or \u201coriginal\u201d sin. Neither is there mortal sin by which the soul is forever lost. Through s\u0101dhana, worship and austerities, sins can be atoned for. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAWhat men term sin, the wise call <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-362-dancing-with-siva-2\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}