{"id":381,"date":"2026-05-23T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=381"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-42-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-42-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 42 \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-42.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 Monks Fulfill D\u0101na<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is very important for s\u0101dhus, sanny\u0101sins, sw\u0101m\u012bs, s\u0101dhakas, any mendicant under vows, to perform d\u0101na. True, they are giving all of their time, but that is fulfillment of their vrata. True, they are not giving da\u015bam\u0101\u1e41\u015ba, because they are not employed and have no income. For them, d\u0101na is giving the unexpected in unexpected ways\u2014serving tea for seven days to the tyrannical s\u0101dhu that assisted them by causing an attack of \u0101\u1e47ava, of personal ego, within them, in thanks to him for being the channel of their pr\u0101rabdha karmas and helping them in the next step of their spiritual unfoldment. D\u0101na is making an unexpected wreath of sacred leaves and flowers for one\u2019s guru and giving it at an unexpected time. D\u0101na is cooking for the entire group and not just for a few or for oneself alone. <br><br>When one has reached an advanced stage on the spiritual path, in order to go further, the law requires giving back what one has been given. Hearing oneself speak the divine teachings and being uplifted and fulfilled by filling up and uplifting others allows the budding adept to go through the next portal. Those who have no desire to counsel others, teach or pass on what they have learned are still in the learning stages themselves, traumatically dealing with one or more of the restraints and practices. The passing on of j\u00f1\u0101na, wisdom, through counseling, consoling, teaching San\u0101tana Dharma and the only one final conclusion, monistic \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta, Advaita \u012a\u015bvarav\u0101da, is a fulfillment and completion of the cycle of learning for every monastic. This does not mean that he mouths indiscriminately what he has been told and memorized, but rather that he uses his philosophical knowledge in a timely way according to the immediate needs of the listener, for wisdom is the timely application of knowledge. <br><br>The d\u0101na s\u0101dhana, of course, for s\u0101dhakas, s\u0101dhus, yog\u012bs and sw\u0101m\u012bs, as they have no cash, is to practice d\u0101na in kind, physical doing, until they are finally able to release the San\u0101tana Dharma from their own lips, as a natural outgrowth of their spirituality, spirit, \u015bakti, bolt-of-lightning outpouring, because they are so filled up. Those who are filled up with the divine truths, in whom when that fullness is pressed down, compacted, locked in, it still oozes out and runs over, are those who pass on the San\u0101tana Dharma. They are the catalysts not only of this adult generation, but the one before it still living, and of children and the generations yet to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 42: THE ILLUSION OF EVIL<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers all believe there is no intrinsic evil. Evil has no source, unless the source of evil\u2019s seeming be ignorance itself. They are truly compassionate, knowing that ultimately there is no good or bad. All is \u015aiva\u2019s will. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Monks Fulfill D\u0101na It is very important for s\u0101dhus, sanny\u0101sins, sw\u0101m\u012bs, s\u0101dhakas, any mendicant under vows, to perform d\u0101na. True, they are giving all of their time, but that is fulfillment of their vrata. True, they are not giving da\u015bam\u0101\u1e41\u015ba, because they are not employed and have no income. For them, d\u0101na is giving <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-42-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-381","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\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}