{"id":411,"date":"2026-05-27T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=411"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-46-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-46-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 46 \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\/12\/LwS-Lesson-46.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\">Faith in Tradition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intellect in its capacity to contain truth is a very limited tool, while faith is a very broad, accommodating and embracing faculty. The mystery of life and beyond life, of \u015aiva, is really better understood through faith than through intellectual reasoning. The intellect is a memory\/reason conglomerate from the lower n\u0101\u1e0d\u012b\/chakra complex. Its refined ability to juggle information around is uncanny in some instances. Nevertheless, the intellect is built upon what we hear and remember, what we experience and remember, what we explain to others who are refined or gross in reasoning faculties. What we remember of it all and the portions that have been forgotten may be greatly beneficial to those listening, or it may be confusing, but it is certainly not Truth with a capital \u201cT.\u201d <br><br>There are two kinds of faith. The first kind is faith in those masters, adepts, yog\u012bs and \u1e5bishis who have had similar experiences and have spoken about them in similar ways, unedited by the ignorant. We, therefore, can have faith that some Truth was revealed from within themselves, from some deep, inner or higher source. The second aspect of faith is in one\u2019s own spiritual, unsought-for, unbidden flashes of intuition, revelations or visions, which one remembers even stronger as the months go by, more vividly than something read from a book, seen on television or heard from a friend or a philosopher. These personal revelations create a new, superconscious intellect when verified by what yog\u012bs and \u1e5bishis and the s\u0101dhus have seen and heard and whose explanations centuries have preserved. These are the old souls of the \u015buddha avasth\u0101, being educated from within out, building a new intellect from superconscious insights. Their faith is unshakable, undaunted, for it is themself. It is just who they are at this stage of the evolution, the maturation, of their soul in the \u015buddha avasth\u0101. <br><br>One of the aspects of faith is the acceptance of tradition rather than the questioning or doubting of traditions. Another is trust in the process of spiritual unfoldment, so that when one is going through an experience, one always believes that the process is happening, instead of thinking that today\u2019s negative experience is outside the process. However, it is not possible for souls in the irul p\u0101da, stage of darkness, to trust in the process of anything except their need for food, a few bodily comforts and their gaining the abilities to adjust transparently into a community without committing too many crimes for which they would be severely punished. They gain their lessons through the action-and-painful-reaction ways. <br><br>It is difficult and nearly impossible for those in the marul p\u0101da, stage of confusion, to have faith in the process of spiritual unfoldment and trust in tradition, because they are developing their personal ego, manufacturing karmas, good, bad and mixed, to sustain their physical existence for hundreds of lives. They will listen to sermons with a deaf ear and, after they are over, enjoy the food and the idle chatter the most. They will read books on philosophy and rationalize their teachings as relevant only to the past. The great knowledge of the past tradition, even the wisdom their grandparents might hold, is an encroachment on their proud sovereignty. <br><br>It is only when the soul reaches the maturity to enter the arul p\u0101da, the stage of grace, that the ability will come from within to lean on the past and on tradition, perform the present s\u0101dhanas, live within dharma and carve a future for themselves and others by bringing the best of the past, which is tradition, forward into the future. This transition is a happy one. Truth now has a capital \u201cT\u201d and is always told. The restraints, the yamas, truly have been perfected and are a vital part of the DNA system of individual living beings. Now, as he enters the arul p\u0101da, the niyamas, spiritual practices, stand out strongly in his mind. <br><br>The Sanskrit word \u0101stikya means \u201cthat which is,\u201d or \u201cthat which exists.\u201d Thus, for Hindus faith means believing in what is. \u0100stikya refers to one who believes in what is, one who is pious and faithful. We can see that these two words, faith and \u0101stikya, are similar in nature. Faith is the spiritual-intellectual mind, developed through many superconscious insights blended together through cognition, not through reason. The insights do not have to be remembered, because they are firmly impressed as sa\u1e41sk\u0101ras within the inner mind. <br><br>There is an old saying favored by practical, experiential intellectuals, \u201cSeeing is believing.\u201d A more profound adage is \u201cBelieving is seeing.\u201d The scientists and the educators of today live in the marul p\u0101da. They see with their two eyes and pass judgments based on what they currently believe. The \u1e5bishis of the past and the \u1e5bishis of the now and those yet to come in the future also are seers. There is a thin thread through the history of China, Japan, India, England and all of Europe, Africa, the Americas, Polynesia and all the countries of the world connecting seers and what they have seen. This seeing is not with the two eyes. It is with the third eye, the eye of the soul. One cannot erase through argument or coercion that which has been seen. The seer relates his seeing to the soul of the one who hears. This is samprad\u0101ya. This is guru-\u015bishya transference. This is Truth. This is \u015buddha. This is the end of this upade\u015ba. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 46: NONINJURY AND TRUTHFULNESS<br>All devotees of \u015aiva practice ahi\u1e41s\u0101, not harming others by thought, word or deed, even in their dreams. Adhering to satya, truthfulness, they do not lie, deceive, betray promises or keep secrets from loved ones. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith in Tradition The intellect in its capacity to contain truth is a very limited tool, while faith is a very broad, accommodating and embracing faculty. The mystery of life and beyond life, of \u015aiva, is really better understood through faith than through intellectual reasoning. 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