{"id":777,"date":"2026-07-24T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:00:02","slug":"lesson-104-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-104-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 104 \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-104.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\">How Does One Attend a \u015aiva Temple?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 104<br>Approaching with deep reverence, we begin our worship with Ga\u1e47e\u015ba, circumambulate the temple and proceed to the main sanctum for p\u016bj\u0101. After receiving the sacraments, we sit quietly before taking our leave. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>With offerings in hand, leaving our shoes outside, we enter through the gopura, or temple tower, wash hands, feet and mouth, and seek blessings at Lord Ga\u1e47e\u015ba\u2019s shrine. Next we follow the outer prakara, or hallway, clockwise around the mah\u0101ma\u1e47\u1e0dapa, central chambers. Inside we leave our worldly thoughts at the balip\u012b\u1e6dha, or offering place, then prostrate before the dhvajastambha, temple flagpole, and worship Nandi, the sacred bull. Next we circumambulate the central sanctum, garbhag\u1e5biha, usually three times, returning to its entrance for worship. During p\u016bj\u0101, we stand with hands folded or in a\u00f1jali mudr\u0101, though according to temple custom, it may be proper to sit quietly or sing devotional hymns. After the \u0101rat\u012b, or waving of the camphor light before the Deity, we prostrate (ash\u1e6d\u0101\u1e45ga pra\u1e47\u0101ma for men, and pa\u00f1ch\u0101\u1e45ga pra\u1e47\u0101ma for women) and rise to receive the pras\u0101da, accepting them in the right hand. We walk around the garbhag\u1e5biha one final time before taking our leave. The Vedas affirm, \u201cIf a man first takes firm hold on faith and then offers his sacrifice, then in that man\u2019s sacrifice both Gods and men place confidence.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Does One Attend a \u015aiva Temple? \u015aLOKA 104Approaching with deep reverence, we begin our worship with Ga\u1e47e\u015ba, circumambulate the temple and proceed to the main sanctum for p\u016bj\u0101. After receiving the sacraments, we sit quietly before taking our leave. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAWith offerings in hand, leaving our shoes outside, we enter through the gopura, or <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-104-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-777","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\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}