{"id":839,"date":"2026-08-03T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=839"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-114-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-114-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 114 \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-114.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\">Do \u015aaivites Worship Only in Temples?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 114<br>One can worship God anywhere and be in contact with the inner worlds\u2014in the temple, in the home shrine and in the yog\u012b\u2019s contemplation. However, in the holy \u015aiva temple the three worlds most perfectly commune. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>In the shrine room gather messengers of the Mah\u0101deva being worshiped to hear the prayers of the devotee and carry them to their Master. The Gods can be worshiped anywhere when the proper sa\u1e45kalpa, preparation, has been performed. God\u2019s presence is everywhere, through everything, in everything, for \u015aiva is the creator of all things, the manifestor of time, form and the space between forms. \u015aiva is worshiped in the mind, in the heart, through the throat, in the head of the yog\u012b locked in yoga. So great is the power of worship, communion and communication with the centillion devas, that when a little bell is rung, a flame appears in the lamp, the vermilion spot is placed, the flower appears and is offered, God \u015aiva and the Gods are invoked. Contemplating the aftermath of p\u016bj\u0101 or abhisheka, we feel the s\u0101nnidhya or divine presence of Par\u0101\u015bakti, tender motherly love, permeating to the outer walls around the temple. The Vedas proclaim, \u201cAssemble all, with prayer to the Lord of Heaven, He is the One, the all-pervading, the guest of men. He, the ancient of days, abides in the present. Him, the One, the many follow on their path.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do \u015aaivites Worship Only in Temples? \u015aLOKA 114One can worship God anywhere and be in contact with the inner worlds\u2014in the temple, in the home shrine and in the yog\u012b\u2019s contemplation. However, in the holy \u015aiva temple the three worlds most perfectly commune. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAIn the shrine room gather messengers of the Mah\u0101deva being worshiped <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-114-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-839","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}