{"id":525,"date":"2026-06-14T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=525"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-64-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-64-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 64 \u2013 Merging 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\/06\/MwS-Lesson-64.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\">The Light of Understanding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People speak of the \u201clight of understanding.\u201d Before the bright light of spiritual perception is experienced, the light of understanding must be laid as a foundation of philosophical training and appreciation\u2014learning to understand life, for instance, through action rather than reaction. The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant experience of the mind. It is this to which the yoga student aspires. Living in the light, everything that formerly was hidden becomes revealed. Answers to questions that you had been pondering for many years become instantaneously unraveled in the light of the super\u00adcon\u00adscious. But the mind has a way, in its instinctive, intellectual nature, of casting shadows over the natural radiance of the inner light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doubt is the by-product of the intellect\u2019s inability to cope with light. When a person depends upon memory or reason for meaningful answers, the mind will break down in doubt. Only when the higher elucidation of the intuition is sought is doubt dispelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the instinctive mind becomes lifted into the light, a person is strong enough to be kind when he could have become angry. He generates enough spiritual power to be generous when he might have reacted selfishly. Disciplined periods of meditation nurture a magnanimous and benevolent nature. Such a being is naturally in the light of the supreme consciousness. His great strength is humility, a shock absorber for the malicious experiences in life. Humility makes one immune to resentment and places everything in proportion and balance within the mind. A person lacking in humility does not give the appearance of being firmly rooted and poised within himself. At the other extreme, the arrogant person who lives in the shadows of the mind presents a pitiful picture of insecurity and incompleteness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeking for God in the depths of one\u2019s being through control of the mind, control of one\u2019s thoughts, feelings and emotions, gives birth to the highest qualities of nature. This transformation begins to take place as the light of the soul becomes more and more apparent within the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spiritual path is a constant turning within, turning the light of the super\u00adcon\u00adscious into the dark corners and recesses of the mind. \u201cWhat is hidden shall be revealed,\u201d and so it is on this path as man reveals his Self to himself. As you sit in meditation in a darkened room, practice directing your consciousness inward, to the center of your brain. If you are able to perceive light within your body, you are on the path to immortality. But should darkness prevail, work diligently each day to clear out resentment, jealousy, fear, worry and doubt from your nature. Then you can sit in a darkened room and be a being of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next time you are in a state of worldliness\u2014jealous, angry or feeling sorry for yourself\u2014sit down and seek for the light. If you cannot find it, visualize a light bulb within your head or a flashlight at the top of your head shining down into it. Flash the light on and off mentally, and when the flashlight does not go off, even if you have mentally turned off the switch, then you know that you have the inner light. You will watch awareness move out of the darker area of the mind. It\u2019s a wonderful feeling, and it\u2019s a basic practice of the contemplative life of living two-thirds within oneself and one-third in the external world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m often asked, \u201cDo I see light or do I just think that I am seeing light?\u201d I reply, \u201cIf you were in a darkened room, you would see light within you, just as you would see on the outside if lights were on in the room or you were in broad daylight. This is because you are seeing with your inner eye, your third eye, which you actually use all of the time. You use your third eye, for example, when you study your subconscious mind and see the memories of your past. The light around the memories is the inner light. If it wasn\u2019t there, you could not see your memories. Take away the mental pictures, and the light alone is before you. You will learn to consciously use the inner eye to see with as you spiritually unfold. All of a sudden, one day you will realize that you are seeing light with your third eye at the same time you are seeing physical things with your two physical eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a technique for learning to see the inner light. Open your eyes while seated in meditation. Follow the rays of light coming into your eyes and into your head until they are complemented with inner light rays. Contemplate light in the external world. Now close your eyes and look for inner light rays within your head. If you don\u2019t find them, open your eyes again and let a few rays in, so to speak. Close your eyes again and look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inner light is so beautiful. It is firm, like a plasma. It is sometimes fibrous and full of energy. And yet, it is quiet and full of colors. You begin to see color, and in that realm you can hear color at the same time that you see color. You can hear sound and see color all at the same time, and you have the faculty to turn hearing on and to turn hearing off, because you hear with an inner ear. This is, of course, very useful in daily life. When you listen to people talking, you begin to know exactly what they are meaning because of your listening through your inner ear. When you look at people, you know exactly where they are in consciousness, because you are looking at them with your inner eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light of Understanding People speak of the \u201clight of understanding.\u201d Before the bright light of spiritual perception is experienced, the light of understanding must be laid as a foundation of philosophical training and appreciation\u2014learning to understand life, for instance, through action rather than reaction. 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