{"id":2407,"date":"2026-04-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-365-dancing-with-siva-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-365-dancing-with-siva-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 365 \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\/2025\/02\/DwS-Lesson-55.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\">Does God Ever Punish Wrongdoers?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 55<br>God is perfect goodness, love and truth. He is not wrathful or vengeful. He does not condemn or punish wrongdoers. Jealousy, vengefulness and vanity are qualities of man\u2019s instinctive nature, not of God. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>There is no reason to ever fear God, whose right-hand gesture, abhaya mudr\u0101, indicates \u201cfear not,\u201d and whose left hand invites approach. God is with us always, even when we are unaware of that holy presence. He is His crea\u00adtion. It is an extension of Himself; and God is never apart from it nor limited by it. When we act wrongly, we create negative karma for ourselves and must then live through ex\u00adpe\u00adr\u00adiences of suffering to ful\u00adfill the law of karma. Such karmas may be pain\u00adful, but they were gen\u00ad\u00ader\u00adated from our own thoughts and deeds. God never punishes us, even if we do not be\u00adlieve in Him. It is by means of wor\u00adship of and meditation on God that our self-created sufferings are softened and assuaged. God is the God of all\u2014of the be\u00adlievers within all religions, and of the non\u00ad\u00adbeliev\u00aders, too. God does not destroy the wicked and re\u00addeem the righteous; but grants the precious gift of liberation to all souls. The \u0100gamas state, \u201cWhen the soul gradually reduces and then stops altogether its par\u00adtici\u00adpa\u00adtion in darkness and inauspicious powers, the Friend of the World, God, reveals to the soul the limitless character of its knowledge and activity.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does God Ever Punish Wrongdoers? \u015aLOKA 55God is perfect goodness, love and truth. He is not wrathful or vengeful. He does not condemn or punish wrongdoers. Jealousy, vengefulness and vanity are qualities of man\u2019s instinctive nature, not of God. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya. BH\u0100SHYAThere is no reason to ever fear God, whose right-hand gesture, abhaya mudr\u0101, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-365-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-2407","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\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}