{"id":790,"date":"2026-07-26T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-106-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-106-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 106 \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-106.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 Inner Importance of P\u016bj\u0101?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 106<br>The traditional rite of worship, called p\u016bj\u0101, is a sanctified act of the highest importance for the Hindu. It is the invoking of God \u015aiva and the Gods and the heartfelt expression of our love, devotion and surrender. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>P\u016bj\u0101 is a ceremony in which the ringing of bells, passing of flames, presenting of offerings and chanting invoke the devas and Mah\u0101devas, who then come to bless and help us. P\u016bj\u0101 is our holy communion, full of wonder and tender affections. It is that part of our day which we share most closely and consciously with our beloved Deity; and thus it is for \u015aaivites the axis of religious life. Our worship through p\u016bj\u0101, outlined in the \u015aaiva \u0100gamas, may be an expression of festive celebration of important events in life, of adoration and thanksgiving, penance and confession, prayerful supplication and requests, or contemplation at the deepest levels of superconsciousness. P\u016bj\u0101 may be conducted on highly auspicious days in a most elaborate, orthodox and strict manner by the temple puj\u0101r\u012bs, or it may be offered in the simplest form each morning and evening in the home shrine by any devotee. The Vedas proclaim, \u201cSacrifice resembles a loom with threads extended this way and that, composed of innumerable rituals. Behold now the fathers weaving the fabric; seated on the outstretched loom. \u2018Lengthwise! Crosswise!\u2019 they cry.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Inner Importance of P\u016bj\u0101? \u015aLOKA 106The traditional rite of worship, called p\u016bj\u0101, is a sanctified act of the highest importance for the Hindu. It is the invoking of God \u015aiva and the Gods and the heartfelt expression of our love, devotion and surrender. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAP\u016bj\u0101 is a ceremony in which the ringing <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-106-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-790","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\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}