{"id":346,"date":"2026-05-18T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=346"},"modified":"2025-05-24T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-37-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-37-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 37 \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-37.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 the Nature of the Chary\u0101 P\u0101da?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 37<br>Chary\u0101 is the performance of altruistic religious service and living according to traditional ethical conduct and culture, by which the outer nature is purified. It is the stage of overcoming basic instinctive patterns. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>Chary\u0101, literally \u201cconduct,\u201d is the first stage of religiousness and the foundation for the next three stages. It is also called the d\u0101sa m\u0101rga, meaning \u201cpath of servitude,\u201d for here the soul relates to God as servant to master. The disciplines of char\u00ad\u00ad\u00ady\u0101 include humble service, attending the temple, performing one\u2019s duty to community and family, honoring holy men, res\u00adpecting elders, atoning for misdeeds and fulfilling the ten classical restraints called yamas. Within a strong society, one performs char\u00ady\u0101 whether he wants to or not. Young or rebellious souls often resist and resent, whereas mature souls fulfill these obligations most naturally. Right behavior and self-sacrificing service are never outgrown. The keynote of chary\u0101, or karma yoga, is sev\u0101, religious service given without the least thought of reward, which has the magical effect of softening the ego and bringing forth the soul\u2019s innate devotion. The Tirumantiram ex\u00adplains, \u201cThe sim\u00adple temple duties, lighting the lamps, picking flowers, lovingly polishing the floors, sweeping, singing the Lord\u2019s praise, ringing the bell and fetching ceremonial water\u2014these constitute the d\u0101sa m\u0101rga.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Nature of the Chary\u0101 P\u0101da? \u015aLOKA 37Chary\u0101 is the performance of altruistic religious service and living according to traditional ethical conduct and culture, by which the outer nature is purified. It is the stage of overcoming basic instinctive patterns. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAChary\u0101, literally \u201cconduct,\u201d is the first stage of religiousness and the foundation <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-37-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-346","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\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}