{"id":290,"date":"2026-05-10T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=290"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:48:12","slug":"lesson-29-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-29-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 29 \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\/gurudeva-AI-mws-lesson-29.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Recording: Gurudeva\u2019s cloned voice<\/em><\/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, a Ball of Light<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The average person who is not a mystic lives two-thirds in the external area of the mind and one-third within himself. The within of himself can be, and sometimes is, very foreboding. He doesn\u2019t understand it. He is a little afraid of it and prefers to involve himself with external things. Possibly he\u2019s had some inner experiences, some emotional unhappinesses, and he shuns anything that is inner. The mystic lives, and is taught to live, two-thirds within himself and only one-third in the external. In learning how to do this, the mystic is taught to become consciously conscious, or aware that he is aware. He learns to separate awareness from that which he is aware of. The person who is not a mystic, living two-thirds in the external mind, says, \u201cI am happy,\u201d meaning, \u201cI am aware of a state of mind called happiness, and I am in that state, so that is me.\u201d Or, \u201cI am unhappy. Unhappiness is me.\u201d The mystic living two-thirds within says to himself, \u201cI am flowing through the area of the mind that\u2019s always unhappy.\u201d He doesn\u2019t change; he is a pure state of awareness. <br><br>Visualize a little ball of light. We\u2019ll call that man\u2019s individual awareness, and that light is shining right out from his eyes, and this little ball of light is going through the mind. It\u2019s going through the area of the mind that\u2019s always unhappy. It\u2019s going through the area of the mind that\u2019s always dreaming, the area of the mind that\u2019s delightfully happy, the area of the mind that\u2019s in absolute bliss, the area of the mind that\u2019s absolutely in jealousy all the time, the area that\u2019s in fear all the time\u2014many people live in this area of the mind; it\u2019s quite crowded with lots of balls of light there. This ball of light flows through the area of the mind that\u2019s in resentment. It\u2019s like a churning ocean. It\u2019s a delightful place to be in, especially if you\u2019re a little ball. You get bounced all around. Then there\u2019s the area of the mind that is completely peaceful and has always been peaceful. No mood or emotion has ever been in it to ruffle it, because that\u2019s the peaceful area of the mind. The one who meditates seeks out this area to become aware in. Man\u2019s individual awareness is just like this little ball of light, and it\u2019s like a camera. It photographs. It registers. It understands. It is pure intelligence. Man knows where he is in the mind, but the first step in awakening on the path of enlightenment is to separate awareness from that which it is aware of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness, a Ball of Light The average person who is not a mystic lives two-thirds in the external area of the mind and one-third within himself. The within of himself can be, and sometimes is, very foreboding. He doesn\u2019t understand it. 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