{"id":353,"date":"2026-05-19T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=353"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:52:07","slug":"lesson-38-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-38-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 38 \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\/2026\/01\/DwS-Lesson-038.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 Kriy\u0101 P\u0101da?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015aLOKA 38<br>Kriy\u0101 is joyous and regular worship, both internal and external, in the home and temple. It includes p\u016bj\u0101, japa, penance, fasting and scriptural learning, by which our understanding and love of God and Gods deepen. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BH\u0100SHYA<br>Hinduism demands deep devotion through bhakti yoga in the kriy\u0101 p\u0101da, softening the intellect and unfolding love. In kri\u00ady\u0101, the second stage of religiousness, our s\u0101dhana, which was mostly external in chary\u0101, is now also internal. Kriy\u0101, literally \u201caction or rite,\u201d is a stirring of the soul in aware\u00adness of the Divine, overcoming the obstin\u00adacy of the instinctive-intellectual mind. We now look upon the Deity image not just as carved stone, but as the living presence of the God. We perform ritual and p\u016bj\u0101 not be\u00adcause we have to but because we want to. We are drawn to the temple to satisfy our longing. We sing joyfully. We ab\u00adsorb and intuit the wisdom of the Vedas and \u0100gamas. We perform pilgrimage and fulfill the sac\u00adra\u00adments. We practice diligently the ten classi\u00adcal ob\u00adser\u00advances called niyamas. Our re\u00adlationship with God in kriy\u0101 is as a son to his parents and thus this stage is called the satpu\u00adtra m\u0101rga. The Tirumantiram in\u00adstructs, \u201cP\u016b\u00adj\u0101, reading the scriptures, singing hymns, performing japa and un\u00adsullied aus\u00adter\u00adity, truthfulness, restraint of envy, and of\u00adfering of food\u2014these and other self-purifying acts con\u00adsti\u00adtute the flawless satputra m\u0101rga.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Nature of the Kriy\u0101 P\u0101da? \u015aLOKA 38Kriy\u0101 is joyous and regular worship, both internal and external, in the home and temple. It includes p\u016bj\u0101, japa, penance, fasting and scriptural learning, by which our understanding and love of God and Gods deepen. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAHinduism demands deep devotion through bhakti yoga in the kriy\u0101 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-38-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-353","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\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}