{"id":430,"date":"2026-05-30T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=430"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-49-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-49-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 49 \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-49.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\">Living in God\u2019s Home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ideal of \u012a\u015bvarap\u016bjana, worship, is to always be living with God, living with \u015aiva, in God\u2019s house, which is also your house, and regularly going to God\u2019s temple. This lays the foundation for finding God within. How can someone find God within if he doesn\u2019t live in God\u2019s house as a companion to God in his daily life? The answer is obvious. It would only be a theoretical pretense, based mainly on egoism. If one really believes that God is in his house, what kinds of attitudes does this create? First of all, since family life is based around food, the family would feed God in His own room at least three times a day, place the food lovingly before His picture, leave, close the door and let God and His devas eat in peace. God and the devas do enjoy the food, but they do so by absorbing the pr\u0101\u1e47as, the energies, of the food. When the meal is over, and after the family has eaten, God\u2019s plates are picked up, too. What is left on God\u2019s plate is eaten as pras\u0101da, as a blessing. God should be served as much as the hungriest member of the family, not just a token amount. Of course, God, Gods and the devas do not always remain in the shrine room. They wander freely throughout the house, listening to and observing the entire family, guests and friends. Since the family is living in God\u2019s house, and God is not living in their house, the voice of God is easily heard as their conscience. <br><br>When we are living in God\u2019s house, it is easy to see God as pure energy and life within every living form, the trees, the flowers, the plants, the fire, the Earth, humans, animals and all creatures. When we see this life, which is manifest most in living beings, we are seeing God \u015aiva. Many families are too selfish to set aside a room for God. Though they have their personal libraries, rumpus rooms, two living rooms, multiple bedrooms, their superficial religion borders on a new Indian religion. Their shrine is a closet, or pictures of God and Goddesses on the vanity mirror of their dressing table. The results of such worship are nil, and their life reflects the chaos that we see in the world today. <br><br>The psychology and the decision and the religion is, \u201cDo we live with God, or does God occasionally visit us?\u201d Who is the authority in the home, an unreligious, ignorant, domineering elder? Or is it God \u015aiva Himself, or Lord Murugan or Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba, whom the entire family, including elders, bow down to because they have resigned themselves to the fact that they are living in the \u0101\u015brama of Mah\u0101devas? This is religion. This is \u012a\u015bvarap\u016bjana. <br><br>It is often said that worship is not only a performance at a certain time of day in a certain place, but a state of being in which every act, morning to night, is done in \u015aiva consciousness, in which life becomes an offering to God. Then we can begin to see \u015aiva in everyone we meet. When we try, just try\u2014and we don\u2019t have to be successful all the time\u2014to separate the life of the individual from his personality, immediately we are in higher consciousness and can reflect contentment and faith, compassion, steadfastness and all the higher qualities, which is sometimes not possible to do if we are only looking at the external person. This practice, of \u012a\u015bvarap\u016bjana s\u0101dhana, can be performed all through the day and even in one\u2019s dreams at night. <br><br>Meditation, too, in the Hindu way is based on worship. It is true that Hindus do teach meditation techniques to those who have Western backgrounds as a mind-manipulative experience. However, a Hindu adept, \u1e5bishi or j\u00f1\u0101n\u012b, even an experienced elder, knows that meditation is a natural outgrowth of the chary\u0101, kriy\u0101 and yoga paths. It is based on a religious foundation, as trigonometry is based on geometry, algebra and arithmetic. <br><br>If you are worshiping properly, if you take worship to its pinnacle, you are in perfect meditation. We have seen many devotees going through the form of worship with no communication with the God they are worshiping or even the stone that the God uses as a temporary body. They don\u2019t even have a smile on their face. They are going through the motions because they have been taught that meditation is the ultimate, and worship can be dispensed with after a certain time. Small wonder that when they are in meditation, their minds are confused and subconscious overloads harass them. Breathing is irregular, and if made regular has to be forced. Their materialistic outlook on life\u2014of seeing God everywhere, yet not in those places they rationalize God can never possibly be\u2014contradicts their professed dedication to the Hindu way of life. <br><br>Yes, truly, worship unreservedly. Perfect this. Then, after initiation, internalize that worship through yoga practices given by a satguru. Through that same internal worship, unreservedly, you will eventually attain the highest goal. These are the \u015aaiva Siddh\u0101nta conclusions of the seven \u1e5bishis who live within the sahasr\u0101ra chakra of all souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 49: COMPASSION AND STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS<br>All devotees of \u015aiva practice day\u0101, compassion, conquering callous, cruel, insensitive feelings toward all beings. Maintaining \u0101rjava, they are straightforward and honest, renouncing deception and wrongdoing. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in God\u2019s Home The ideal of \u012a\u015bvarap\u016bjana, worship, is to always be living with God, living with \u015aiva, in God\u2019s house, which is also your house, and regularly going to God\u2019s temple. This lays the foundation for finding God within. How can someone find God within if he doesn\u2019t live in God\u2019s house as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-49-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-430","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\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}