{"id":804,"date":"2026-07-29T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=804"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-109-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-109-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 109 \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-109.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 Meditative Perspective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone asked, \u201cWhat happens in a person\u2019s daily life when he first starts to meditate?\u201d Many things can and do happen to you when you first start to meditate. For instance, your friends may think that you\u2019re withdrawing from them. They\u2019ll say you\u2019re afraid of the world so you\u2019re trying to get away from it all by meditating. Other people will quickly congratulate you and say, \u201cYou\u2019re finally on the path. We\u2019ve waited a long time for you to find the path.\u201d Then you\u2019re taken into a certain social group who are also on the path, who have long since stopped meditating but do appreciate it when you do! They will talk to you so much about the path, they will finally get you to stop meditating, too. All sorts of things will happen to you. <br><br>The best thing to do when you begin meditation is to live in a good environment, among good people. Meditate alone and don\u2019t talk about it to anyone except the person who is helping you on the path. Do it inconspicuously, privately. It\u2019s an inner process, so it should be performed alone. Then only inner things will happen to you, and your outer life will become better and better and better. You\u2019ll get into a blissful flow with life\u2014a perfect timing in your outer life. You will find yourself standing in the right place at the right time, every day. You will be in the energy flow with life, guided by your intuition. All the wonderful things that you should be experiencing on this planet will begin to come to you. <br><br>By changing yourself, you don\u2019t necessarily outwardly alter world events. But you do find where the world is and that it is functioning just as it should be, in a perfect balance of adjusting forces. From his position at the pinnacle of consciousness, my guru, Yogaswami, saw the harmony of life. From the top of the mountain looking down, you see the natural role of a raging ocean and the steep cliffs below\u2014they are beautiful. From the bottom of the mountain, the ocean can appear ominous and the cliffs treacherous. Yogaswami looked at the universe from the inside out and saw that there is not one thing out of place or wrong. You can gain that perspective through meditation, which releases the human concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, easy and difficult. This is the perspective you find on the inside of yourself. <br><br>Man is in a perfect state of being right now. The great sages and \u1e5bishis found this truth. They were not more perfect than their contemporaries, just more aware. You are perfect this very moment. You are all that you will ever be. If you don\u2019t see it that way, then you live in a difficult state of affairs, striving toward perfection and being imperfect along the way. <br><br>Awareness of perfection is attained by sitting down and arriving at the state of expanded cosmic consciousness inside yourself. It\u2019s there, only to be discovered. You can do that in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days or nine years. Take as long as you like. The fact remains that deep inside you is perfection. So, you see, you have a choice. You can remain in the valley, live in fear of the stormy ocean of life and death, or you can scale the nearby mountain and see from the top how it is from that perspective. Either way, you and everyone in the world are all right in the now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meditative Perspective Someone asked, \u201cWhat happens in a person\u2019s daily life when he first starts to meditate?\u201d Many things can and do happen to you when you first start to meditate. For instance, your friends may think that you\u2019re withdrawing from them. They\u2019ll say you\u2019re afraid of the world so you\u2019re trying to get <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-109-merging-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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merging-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}