{"id":457,"date":"2026-06-03T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=457"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-53-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-53-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 53 \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-53.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\">Mati: Cognition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognition, mati, is the seventh niyama. Cognition means understanding; but deeper than understanding, it is seeing through to the other side of the results that a thought, a word or an action would have in the future, before the thought, word or action has culminated. Mati is the development of a spiritual will and intellect through the grace of a satguru, an enlightened master. Mati can only come this way. It is a transference of divine energies from the satguru to the \u015bishya, building a purified intellect honed down by the guru for the \u015bishya, and a spiritual will developed by the \u015bishya by following the religious s\u0101dhanas the guru has laid down until the desired results are attained to the guru\u2019s satisfaction. S\u0101dhana is always done under a guru\u2019s direction. This is the worthy s\u0101dhana that bears fruit. <br><br>Mati, cognition, on a higher level is the awakening of the third eye, looking out through the heart chakra, seeing through the m\u0101y\u0101, the interacting creation, preservation and dissolution of the molecules of matter. Mati is all this and more, for within each one who is guided by the guru\u2019s presence lies the ability to see not only with the two eyes but with all three simultaneously. The spiritual intellect described herein is none other than wisdom, or a \u201cwise dome,\u201d if you will. Wisdom is the timely application of knowledge, not merely the opinions of others, but knowledge gained through deep observation. <br><br>The guru\u2019s guidance is supreme in the life of the dedicated devotee who is open for training. The verbal lineages of the many samprad\u0101yas have withstood the tests of time, turmoil, decay and ravage of external hostility. The samprad\u0101yas that have sustained man and lifted him above the substratum of ignorance are actually great nerve currents within the spine of the awakened satguru himself. To go further on the path of yoga, one will encounter within his own spine\u2014within one of the fourteen n\u0101\u1e0d\u012bs within it\u2014a satguru, a guru who preaches Truth. He will meet this guru in a dream or in his physical body, and through the guru\u2019s grace and guidance will be allowed to continue the upward climb. These fourteen currents, at every point in time on the surface of the Earth, have a satguru attached to them, ready and waiting to open the portals of the beyond into the higher chakras, the throat, the third eye and the cranium. <br><br>To say, \u201cI have awakened my throat chakra,\u201d \u201cI now live in my third eye\u201d or \u201cI am developing my sahasr\u0101ra chakra,\u201d without being able to admit to being under a guru, a satguru who knows and is personally directing the devotee, is foolishness, a matter of imagination. It is in the heart chakra, the chakra of cognition, that seekers see through the veils of ignorance, illusion, m\u0101y\u0101\u2019s interacting preservation, creation and destruction, and gain a unity with and love for the universe\u2014all those within it, creatures, peoples and all the various forms\u2014feeling themselves a part of it. <br><br>Here, on this threshold of the an\u0101hata chakra, there are two choices. One is following the samprad\u0101ya of a satguru for the next upward climb into the vi\u015buddha, \u0101j\u00f1\u0101 and sahasr\u0101ra. The other is remaining guru-less, becoming one\u2019s own guru, and possibly delving into various forms of psychism, astrology, some forms of modern science, psychic crime-detection, tarot cards, pendulums, crystal gazing, psychic healing, past-life reading or fortunetelling. These psychic abilities, when developed, can be an impediment, a deterrent, a barrier, a Berlin Wall to future spiritual development. They develop the \u0101\u1e47ava, the ego, and are the first renunciations the satguru would ask a devotee to make prior to being accepted. <br><br>Coming under a satguru, one performs according to the guru\u2019s direction with full faith and confidence. This is why scriptures say a guru must be carefully chosen, and when one is found, to follow him with all your heart, to obey and fulfill his every instruction better than he would have expected you to, and most importantly, even better than you would have expected of yourself. <br><br>Psychic abilities are not in themselves deterrents on the path. They are permitted to develop later, after Para\u015biva, nirvikalpa sam\u0101dhi, has been attained and fully established within the individual. But this, too, would be under the guru\u2019s grace and guidance, for these abilities are looked at as tools to fulfill certain works assigned by the guru to the devotee to fulfill until the end of the life of the physical body. <br><br>It is the personal ego, the \u0101\u1e47ava, that is developed through the practice of palmistry, astrology, tarot cards, fortunetelling, past-life reading, crystal gazing, crystal healing, pr\u0101\u1e47a transference, etc., etc., etc. This personal ego enhancement is a gift from those who are healed, who are helped, who are encouraged and who are in awe of the psychic power awakened in the heart chakra of this most perfect person of the higher consciousness who doesn\u2019t anger, display fear or exhibit any lower qualities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 53: WORSHIP AND SCRIPTURAL STUDY<br>All \u015aiva\u2019s devotees cultivate bhakti and family harmony in daily ritual and reflection, I\u015bvarap\u016bjana. Upholding siddh\u0101nta \u015brava\u1e47a, they hear the scriptures, study the teachings and listen to the wise of their lineage. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mati: Cognition Cognition, mati, is the seventh niyama. Cognition means understanding; but deeper than understanding, it is seeing through to the other side of the results that a thought, a word or an action would have in the future, before the thought, word or action has culminated. 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