{"id":920,"date":"2026-08-14T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=920"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:00:04","slug":"lesson-125-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-125-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 125 \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\/2024\/06\/DwS-lesson-125.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Recording: Gurudeva&#8217;s real 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 Satguru\u2019s Unique Function?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 125<br>To transcend the mind and reach the ultimate goal, seekers need the guidance of a satguru, an enlightened master who has followed the path to its natural end and can lead them to the Divine within themselves. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>The satguru is the devotee\u2019s spiritual guide and preceptor, friend and companion on the path. Having become religion\u2019s consummation, the satguru can see where others are and know what their next step should be. Nothing is more precious than the first soul-quickening, life-changing \u015baktip\u0101ta from a guru. Nothing is more central to spiritual awakening than the progressive d\u012bksh\u0101s, or initiations, he bestows. A satguru is needed because the mind is so cunning and the ego is a self-perpetuating mechanism. It is he who inspires, assists, guides and impels the \u015bishya toward the Self of himself. The satguru, perfected in his relationship with \u015aiva, administrates the s\u0101dhana and tapas that slowly incinerate the seeds of sa\u00f1chita karmas. It is his task to preside over the annihilation of the \u015bishya\u2019s ego and subconscious dross, all the while guiding the awakened ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b force so that safe, steady progress can be made from stage to stage. The \u0100gamas affirm, \u201cIndividuals who become, by the grace of \u015aiva, eager to extricate themselves from worldly fetters, obtain initiation from a competent preceptor into the path that leads to \u015aivas\u0101yujya.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Satguru\u2019s Unique Function? \u015aLOKA 125To transcend the mind and reach the ultimate goal, seekers need the guidance of a satguru, an enlightened master who has followed the path to its natural end and can lead them to the Divine within themselves. Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya. BH\u0100SHYAThe satguru is the devotee\u2019s spiritual guide and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-125-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-920","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\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}