{"id":498,"date":"2026-06-09T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-59-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-59-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 59 \u2013 Dancing 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\/2025\/02\/DwS-Lesson-59.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\">What Is the Nature of Human Dharma?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 59<br>Human law, or \u0101\u015brama dharma, is the natural expression and maturing of the body, mind and emotions through four progressive stages of earthly life: student, householder, elder advisor and religious solitaire. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>The four \u0101\u015bramas are \u201cstages of striving,\u201d in pursuit of the purush\u0101rthas: righteousness, wealth, pleasure and liberation. Our first 24 years of life are a time of intense learning. Around age 12, we enter formally the brahmacharya \u0101\u015brama and un\u00addertake the study and skills that will serve us in later life. From 24 to 48, in the g\u1e5bi\u00adhastha \u0101\u015bra\u00adma, we work to\u00adgether as husband and wife to raise the family, increasing wealth and knowledge through our profession, serving the community and sus\u00adtaining the members of the other three \u0101\u015bramas. In the v\u0101na\u00adprastha \u0101\u015brama, from 48 to 72, slowly retiring from public life, we share our ex\u00adperience by advising and guiding younger generations. After age 72, as the physical forces wane, we turn fully to scripture, worship and yoga. This is the sanny\u0101sa \u0101\u015brama, which differs from the formal life of ochre-robed monks. Thus, our human dharma is a natural awakening, expression, ma\u00adturing and withdrawal from worldly involvement. The Vedas say, \u201cPursuit of the duties of the stage of life to which each one belongs\u2014that, verily, is the rule! Others are like branches of a stem. With this, one tends upwards; otherwise, downwards.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Nature of Human Dharma? \u015aLOKA 59Human law, or \u0101\u015brama dharma, is the natural expression and maturing of the body, mind and emotions through four progressive stages of earthly life: student, householder, elder advisor and religious solitaire. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAThe four \u0101\u015bramas are \u201cstages of striving,\u201d in pursuit of the purush\u0101rthas: righteousness, wealth, pleasure <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-59-dancing-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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}