{"id":333,"date":"2026-05-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-35-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-35-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 35 \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\/01\/DwS-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\">How Does One Best Prepare for Death?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 35<br>Blessed with the knowledge of impending transition, we settle affairs and take refuge in japa, worship, scripture and yoga\u2014seeking the highest realizations as we consciously, joyously release the world. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>Before dying, Hindus diligently fulfill obligations, make amends and resolve differences by forgiving themselves and others, lest unresolved karmas bear fruit in future births. That done, we turn to God through meditation, sur\u00adrender and scriptural study. As a conscious death is our ideal, we avoid drugs, arti\u00ad\u00adfi\u00adcial life-ex\u00adten\u00adsion and suicide. Suicide only postpones and in\u00ad\u00adten\u00ad\u00adsifies the kar\u00ad\u00adma one seeks escape from, requiring sever\u00adal lives to return to the evolutionary point that existed at the mo\u00adment of suicide. In cases of terminal illness, under strict com\u00admun\u00adi\u00adty reg\u00adulation, tradition does allow pr\u0101yopa\u00adve\u00ad\u015ba, self-willed re\u00adligious death by fasting. When nearing transition, if hospitalized, we re\u00adturn home to be among loved ones. In the final hours of life, we seek the Self God within and focus on our man\u00ad\u00adtra as kindred keep prayerful vigil. At death, we leave the body through the crown chakra, entering the clear white light and beyond in quest of videhamukti. The Vedas affirm, \u201cWhen a person comes to weakness, be it through old age or dis\u00adease, he frees himself from these limbs just as a mango, a fig or a berry releases itself from its stalk.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Does One Best Prepare for Death? \u015aLOKA 35Blessed with the knowledge of impending transition, we settle affairs and take refuge in japa, worship, scripture and yoga\u2014seeking the highest realizations as we consciously, joyously release the world. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya. BH\u0100SHYABefore dying, Hindus diligently fulfill obligations, make amends and resolve differences by forgiving themselves and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-35-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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}