{"id":312,"date":"2026-05-13T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=312"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-32-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-32-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 32 \u2013 Living 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\/11\/LwS-Lesson-32.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\">Hr\u012b: Remorse And Modesty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hr\u012b, the first of the ten niyamas, or practices, is remorse: being modest and showing shame for misdeeds, seeking the guru\u2019s grace to be released from sorrows through the understanding that he gives, based on the ancient samprad\u0101ya, doctrinal lineage, he preaches. Remorse could be the most misunderstood and difficult to practice of all of the niyamas, because we don\u2019t have very many role models today for modesty or remorse. In fact, the role for imitation in today\u2019s world is just the opposite. This is reflected in television, on film, in novels, magazines, newspapers and all other kinds of media. In today\u2019s world, brash, presumptuous, prideful\u2014that\u2019s how one must be. That\u2019s the role model we see everywhere. In today\u2019s world, arrogant\u2014that\u2019s how one must be. That\u2019s the role model we see everywhere. Therefore, to be remorseful or even to show modesty would be a sign of weakness to one\u2019s peers, family and friends. <br><br>Modesty is portrayed in the media as a trait of people that are gauche, inhibited, undeveloped emotionally or not well educated. And remorse is portrayed in the world media as a characteristic of one who \u201cdoesn\u2019t have his act together,\u201d is unable to rationalize away wrongdoings, or who is not clever enough to find a scapegoat to pin the blame on. Though modesty and remorse are the natural qualities of the soul, when the soul does exhibit these qualities, there is a natural tendency to suppress them. <br><br>But let\u2019s look on the brighter side. There is an old saying, \u201cSome people teach us what to do, and other people teach us what not to do.\u201d The modern media, at least most of it, is teaching us what not to do. Its behavior is based on other kinds of philosophy\u2014secular humanism, materialism, existentialism, crime and punishment, terrorism\u2014in its effort to report and record the stories of the day. Sometimes we can learn quite a lot by seeing the opposite of what we want to learn. The proud and arrogant people portrayed on TV nearly always have their fall. This is always portrayed extremely well and is very entertaining. In their heart of hearts, people really do not admire the prideful person or his display of arrogance, so they take joy in seeing him get his just due. People, in their heart of hearts, do admire the modest person, the truthful person, the patient person, the steadfast person, the compassionate person who shows contentment and the fullness of well-being on his face and in his behavioral patterns. <br><br>We Hindus who understand these things know that hr\u012b, remorse, is to be practiced at every opportunity. One of the most acceptable ways to practice hr\u012b, even in today\u2019s society, is to say in a heartfelt way, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d Everyone will accept this. Even the most despicable, prideful, arrogant, self-centered person will melt just a little under the two magic words \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d <br><br>When apologizing, explain to the person you hurt or wronged how you have realized that there was a better way and ask for his forgiveness. If the person is too proud or arrogant to forgive, you have done your part and can go your way. The burden of the quandary you have put him into now lies solely with him. He will think about it, justify how and why and what he should not forgive until the offense melts from his mind and his heart softens. It takes as much time for a hardened heart to soften as it does for a piece of ice to melt in a refrigerator. Even when it does, his pride may never let him give you the satisfaction of knowing he has forgiven you. But you can tell. Watch for softening in the eyes when you meet, a less rigid mouth and the tendency to suppress a wholesome smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 32: LIVING AND PREACHING \u015aIVA&#8217;S PATH<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers of my lineage study, live and preach to the world our peerless theological doctrine, called by various names: monistic theism, Advaita \u012a\u015bvarav\u0101da, Advaita Siddh\u0101nta and \u015auddha \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hr\u012b: Remorse And Modesty Hr\u012b, the first of the ten niyamas, or practices, is remorse: being modest and showing shame for misdeeds, seeking the guru\u2019s grace to be released from sorrows through the understanding that he gives, based on the ancient samprad\u0101ya, doctrinal lineage, he preaches. Remorse could be the most misunderstood and difficult to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-32-living-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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}