{"id":331,"date":"2026-05-16T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=331"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-35-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-35-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 35 \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-35.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\">Humility, Shame and Shyness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hindu monastic has special disciplines in regard to remorse. If he doesn\u2019t, he is an impostor. If he is seen struggling to observe it and unable to accomplish it all the time, he is still a good monastic. If he shows no remorse, modesty or shame for misdeeds for long periods of time, even though he continues apparently in the performance of no misdeeds, the abbot of the monastery would know that he is suppressing many things, living a personal life, avoiding confrontation and obscuring that which is obvious to himself with a smile and the words, \u201cYes, everything is all right with me. The meditations are going fine. I get along beautifully with all of my brothers.\u201d You would know that this is a \u201cmission impossible,\u201d and that it is time to effect certain tests to break up the nest of the enjoyable routine and of keeping out of everybody\u2019s way, of not participating creatively in the entire community, but just doing one\u2019s job and keeping out of trouble. The test would bring him out in the open, into counseling sessions, so that he himself would see that his clever pride had led him to a spiritual standstill. A monastery is no place to settle down and live. It is a place to be on one\u2019s toes and advance. One must always live as if on the eve of one\u2019s departure. <br><br>Another side of hr\u012b is being bashful, shy, unpretentious. The undeveloped person and the fully developed, wise person may develop the same qualities of being bashful, shy, unpretentious, cautious. In the former, these qualities are the products of ignorance produced by underexposure, and in the latter, they are the products of the wisdom or cleverness produced by overexposure. Genuine modesty and unpretentiousness are not what actors on the stage would portray, they are qualities that one cannot act out, qualities of the soul. <br><br>Shyness used to be thought of as a feminine quality, but not anymore, since the equality of men and women has been announced as the way that men and women should be. Both genders should be aggressive, forceful, to meet and deal with situations on equal terms. This is seen today in the West, in the East, in the North and the South. This is a fa\u00e7ade which covers the soul, producing stress in both men and women. A basically shy man or woman, feeling he or she has to be aggressive, works his or her way into a stressful condition. I long ago found that stress in itself is a byproduct of not being secure in what one is doing. But this is the world today, at this time in the Kali Yuga. If everything that is happening were reasonable and could be easily understood, it certainly wouldn\u2019t be the Kali Yuga. <br><br>If people are taught and believe that their spiritual pursuits are foremost, then, yes, they should be actively aggressive\u2014but as actively passive and modest as well, because of their spiritual pursuits. Obviously, if they are performing s\u0101dhanas, they will intuitively know the proper timing for each action. Remorse, or modesty, certainly does not mean one must divorce oneself from the ability to move the forces of the external world, or be a wimpy kind of impotent person. It does mean that there is a way of being remorseful, showing shame, being humble, of resolving situations when they do go wrong so that you can truly \u201cget on with life\u201d and not be bound by emotionally saturated memories of the past. Those who are bound by the past constantly remember the past and relive the emotions connected with it. Those who are free from the past remember the future and move the forces of all three worlds for a better life for themselves and for all mankind. This is the potent Vedic hr\u012b. This is true remorse, humility and modesty. This is hr\u012b, which is not a weakness but a spiritual strength. And all this is made practical and permanent by subconscious journaling, v\u0101san\u0101 daha tantra, which releases creative energy and does not inhibit it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 35: GOD&#8217;S IMMANENT NATURE AS PERSONAL LORD<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers all believe that Lord \u015aiva is God, whose immanent nature is the Primal Soul, Supreme Mah\u0101deva, Parame\u015bvara, author of Vedas and \u0100gamas, creator, preserver and destroyer of all that exists. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humility, Shame and Shyness The Hindu monastic has special disciplines in regard to remorse. If he doesn\u2019t, he is an impostor. If he is seen struggling to observe it and unable to accomplish it all the time, he is still a good monastic. 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