{"id":257,"date":"2026-05-04T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=257"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:59:36","slug":"lesson-23-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-23-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 23 \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\/2026\/01\/DwS-Lesson-023.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\">What Is Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba\u2019s Special Duty?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 23<br>As Lord of Obstacles, Ga\u1e47e\u015ba wields the noose and the goad, icons of His benevolent power of preventing or permitting events to happen in our life. Thus, we invoke His grace and wisdom before any worship or task. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba, the God of time and memory, strategic\u00adally seated on the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra chakra, poised between the high\u00ader and lower chakras, stabilizes all sentient beings. He holds the architect\u2019s plans of the divine masterpiece of universal past and future. Only good comes from Lord Ga\u00ad\u1e47e\u015ba, who by taking the form of an elephant distinguishes Himself from other Gods. The chary\u0101 p\u0101da be\u00adgins with His worship. He staves off misfortune for those who perform penance in His name. He guides our karma from with\u00adin us through the timing of events. Before any im\u00adpor\u00ad\u00adtant un\u00addertaking, we supplicate Him to clear ob\u00adsta\u00adcles from the path, if it be His will. This Lord of Ob\u00adstacles prevents us from hurting ourselves through living under an in\u00adcomplete concept or making a request un\u00adneeded or be\u00adginning an endeavor not well thought out. Before we petition Him, He ex\u00adpects us to use all of our faculties to arrive at the decision He would have made. The \u0100gamas declare, \u201cThese Lords who, it is said, on the pure path, attend to the various duties deriving from a higher realm of m\u0101y\u0101 are at the prow of the ef\u00adfects of the higher realm of m\u0101y\u0101.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba\u2019s Special Duty? \u015aLOKA 23As Lord of Obstacles, Ga\u1e47e\u015ba wields the noose and the goad, icons of His benevolent power of preventing or permitting events to happen in our life. Thus, we invoke His grace and wisdom before any worship or task. Aum. BH\u0100SHYALord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba, the God of time and memory, strategic\u00adally <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-23-dancing-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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","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\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}