{"id":436,"date":"2026-05-31T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=436"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-50-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-50-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 50 \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-50.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\">Scriptural Listening<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a, scriptural study, the sixth niyama, is the end of the search. Prior to this end, prior to finding the satguru, we are free to study all the scriptures of the world, of all religions, relate and interrelate them in our mind, manipulate their meanings and justify their final conclusions. We are free to study all of the sects and samprad\u0101yas, all denominations, lineages and teachings, everything under the banner of Hinduism\u2014the \u015aaivites, the Vaish\u1e47avites, the Sm\u0101rtas, Ga\u1e47apatis, Ayyappans, \u015a\u0101ktas and Murugans and their branches. <br><br>Scriptures within Hinduism are voluminous. The methods of teaching are awesome in their multiplicity. As for teachers, there is one on every corner in India. Ask a simple question of an elder, and he is duty-bound to give a lengthy response from the window he is looking out of, opened by the samprad\u0101ya he or his family has subscribed to, maybe centuries ago, of one or another sect within this great pantheon we call Hinduism. <br><br>Before we come to the fullness of siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a, we are also free to investigate psychologies, psychiatries, pseudo-sciences, ways of behavior of the human species, existentialism, humanism, secular humanism, materialism and the many other modern \u201c-isms,\u201d which are so multitudinous and still multiplying. Their spokesmen are many. Libraries are full of them. All the \u201c-isms\u201d and \u201c-ologies\u201d are there, and they beckon, hands outstretched to receive, to seduce, sometimes even seize, the seeker. The seeker on the path of siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a who is at least relatively successful at the ten restraints must make a choice. He knows he has to. He knows he must. He has just entered the consciousness of the m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra chakra and is becoming steadfast on the upward climb. <br><br>Have full faith that when your guru does appear, after you have made yourself ready through the ten restraints and the first five practices, you will know in every nerve current of your being that this is your guide on the path through the next five practices: 1) siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a, scriptural study\u2014following one verbal lineage and not pursuing any others; 2) mati, cognition\u2014developing a spiritual will and intellect with a guru\u2019s guidance; 3) vrata, sacred vows\u2014fulfilling religious vows, rules, and observances faithfully; 4) japa, recitation of holy mantras\u2014here we seek initiation from the guru to perform this practice; and 5) tapas, performing austerity, s\u0101dhana, penance and sacrifice, also under the guru\u2019s guidance. <br><br>Siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a is a discipline, an ancient traditional practice in satguru lineages, to carry the devotee from one chakra in consciousness to another. Each samprad\u0101ya defends its own teachings and principles against other samprad\u0101yas to maintain its pristine purity and admonishes followers from investigating any of them. Such exploration of other texts should all be done before seeking to fulfill siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a. Once under the direction of and having been accepted by a guru, any further delving into extraneous doctrines would be disapproved and disallowed. <br><br>Siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a is more than just focusing on a single doctrine. It is developing through scriptural study an entirely new mind fabric, subconsciously and consciously, which will entertain an explanation for all future pr\u0101rabdha karmas and karmas created in this life to be experienced for the duration of the physical life of the disciple. Siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a is even more. It lays the foundation for initiation within the fabric of the nerve system of the disciple. Even more, it portrays any differences in his thinking, the guru\u2019s thought, the samprad\u0101ya\u2019s principles, philosophy and underlying practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 50: MODERATE APPETITE AND PURITY<br>All devotees of \u015aiva observe mitah\u0101ra, moderation in appetite, not eating too much or consuming meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs. They uphold \u015baucha, avoiding impurity in body, mind and speech. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scriptural Listening Siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a, scriptural study, the sixth niyama, is the end of the search. Prior to this end, prior to finding the satguru, we are free to study all the scriptures of the world, of all religions, relate and interrelate them in our mind, manipulate their meanings and justify their final conclusions. 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