{"id":685,"date":"2026-07-10T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=685"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-90-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-90-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 90 \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\/2025\/01\/LwS-Lesson-90.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\">Control of The Pr\u0101\u1e47as<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A great flow of pr\u0101\u1e47a is beginning to occur among the families of our congregation worldwide because each one has decided to discipline himself or herself and the children to perform s\u0101dhana. That brings the pr\u0101\u1e47a under control. If the pr\u0101\u1e47a is not under the control of the individual, it is controlled by other individuals. The negative control of pr\u0101\u1e47a is a control, and positive control of pr\u0101\u1e47a is a control. That\u2019s why we say, \u201cSeek good company,\u201d because if you can\u2019t control your pr\u0101\u1e47a, other people who do control their pr\u0101\u1e47as can help you. The group helps the individual and the individual helps the group. If you mix with bad company, then the pr\u0101\u1e47as begin to get disturbed. Once that happens, your energies are like a team of horses out of control. It takes a lot of skill and strength on the part of the individual to get those pr\u0101\u1e47as back under control. <br><br>The control of pr\u0101\u1e47a is equally important on the inner planes. When you leave the physical body, you are in your astral body, your subtle body. It is not made of flesh and bones like your physical body\u2014as the Buddhists say, \u201cthirty-two kinds of dirt wrapped up in skin.\u201d The astral body is made of pr\u0101\u1e47a. It floats. It can fly. It\u2019s guided by your mind, which is composed of more rarefied pr\u0101\u1e47a, actinic energy. Wherever you want to go, you\u2019ll be there immediately. And, of course, you do this in your sleep, in your dreams and after death. Many of you have had astral experiences and can testify how quickly you can move here and there when your astral body is detached from the physical body. However, if you don\u2019t have control of your pr\u0101\u1e47a, you don\u2019t have control of your astral body. Then where do you go when you drop off your physical body at death? You are magnetized to desires, uncontrollably magnetized to fulfilling unfulfilled desires. You are magnetized to groups of people who are fulfilling similar unfulfilled desires, and generally your consciousness goes down into lower chakras. Only in controlling your astral body do you have conscious control of your soul body, which is, of course, living within the astral body and resonating to the energy of the higher chakras. <br><br>My satguru, Siva Yogaswami, spoke of \u015aaivism as the s\u0101dhana m\u0101rga, \u201cthe path of striving,\u201d explaining that it is a religion not only to be studied but also to be lived. \u201cSee God everywhere. This is practice. First do it intellectually. Then you will know it.\u201d He taught that much knowledge comes through learning to interpret and understand the experiences of life. To avoid the s\u0101dhana m\u0101rga is to avoid understanding the challenges of life. We must not fail to realize that each challenge is brought to us by our own actions of the past. Yes, our actions in the past have generated our life\u2019s experiences today. All Hindus accept karma and reincarnation intellectually, but the concepts are not active in their lives until they accept the responsibilities of their own actions and the experiences that follow. In doing so, no blame can fall upon another. It is all our own doing. This is the s\u0101dhana m\u0101rga\u2014the path to perfection. <br><br>The s\u0101dhana m\u0101rga leads us into the yoga p\u0101da quite naturally. But people don\u2019t study yoga. They are not taught yoga. They are taught s\u0101dhana, and if they don\u2019t perform it themselves\u2014and no one can do it for them\u2014they will never have a grip strong enough over their instinctive mind and intellectual mind to come onto the yoga m\u0101rga, no matter how much they know about yoga. So, we don\u2019t learn yoga. We mature into it. We don\u2019t learn meditation. We awaken into it. You can teach meditation, you can teach yoga, but it\u2019s all just words unless the individual is mature and awake on the inside. <br><br>To be awake on the inside means waking up early in the morning. You woke up early this morning. That may have been difficult. But you got the body up, you got the emotions up, you got the mind up, and your instinctive mind did not want to do all that. Did it? No! Spiritual life is a twenty-four-hour-a-day vigil, as all my close devotees are realizing who have taken the vrata of 365 Nandin\u0101tha S\u016btras. It means going to bed at night early so you can get up in the morning early. It means studying the teachings before you go to bed so that you can go into the inner planes in absolute control. It means in the morning reading from my trilogy, Dancing with \u015aiva, Living with \u015aiva and Merging with \u015aiva, to prepare yourself to face the day, to be a strong person and move the forces of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 90: FAMILY TOGETHERNESS<br>Each of \u015aiva\u2019s devotees who is a husband spends time with his wife and children daily. Monday is a family evening at home. One night monthly is devoted to the wife alone in an activity of her choice. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Control of The Pr\u0101\u1e47as A great flow of pr\u0101\u1e47a is beginning to occur among the families of our congregation worldwide because each one has decided to discipline himself or herself and the children to perform s\u0101dhana. That brings the pr\u0101\u1e47a under control. 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