{"id":931,"date":"2026-08-16T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=931"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-127-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-127-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 127 \u2013 Living 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\/08\/LwS-Lesson-127.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\">Women\u2019s Liberation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anbe Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam! \u201cGod \u015aiva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality!\u201d This morning we are going to talk about a vast subject, one that is important to every Hindu family: str\u012b dharma, the dharma of the Hindu wife and mother. In Sanskrit str\u012b means \u201cwoman.\u201d Dharma is a rich word which encompasses many meanings: the path to God \u015aiva, piety, goodness, duty, obligation and more. Str\u012b dharma is the woman\u2019s natural path, while purusha dharma, we can say, is the man\u2019s. <br><br>There is much controversy about the role of the woman in society these days. In the West, a strong women\u2019s liberation movement has been at work for many years, and now there has arisen an equally vigorous opposition which defends traditional values. The struggle for women\u2019s liberation has affected women the world over\u2014in India, Iran, Europe, Japan and elsewhere. In North America, I began a campaign informally called the Hindu Women\u2019s Liberation Movement. It is not what you might expect. Its purpose is to liberate our Hindu women from the liberators, to save them from worldliness and to allow them to fulfill their natural dharma as mother and wife. <br><br>For a religious woman, being liberated starts with resigning from her job and coming home. Once she is home, she is liberated and liberated and liberated. Working in the world keeps her in the outer dimensions of consciousness, while being at home allows her to live in the depth of her being. I have seen this work many times. There are so many distractions and influences in the world today that divert women away from being a wife and mother. In the West a woman is a wife first and a mother second, but in the East her traditional duties as a mother are foremost. She is trained from early childhood in the arts of homemaking, trained by her mother who was trained in exactly the same way by her mother, and so on right down through history. It\u2019s an old pattern. <br><br>The Hindu woman is looked upon as most precious. Two thousand years ago Saint Tiruvalluvar observed: \u201cWhat does a man lack if his wife is worthy? And what does he possess if she is lacking worth?\u201d (Tirukural 53) There is more respect in the East for women and for their role in society. Here in the West, the woman is not fully appreciated. Her contribution is underrated and misunderstood. In fact, this is one of the reasons she seeks fulfillment and recognition in other spheres, because Western society has become oblivious of her unique and vital role. Abused by neglect and disregard, she seeks other avenues where she may be appreciated, recognized and rewarded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NANDINATHA S\u016aTRA 127: SERVING THE HOLY ONES<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers serve holy men and women of all lineages, providing food, money and clothes according to their means. They lovingly care for these living archives of San\u0101tana Dharma and treat them amicably. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Liberation Anbe Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam! \u201cGod \u015aiva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality!\u201d This morning we are going to talk about a vast subject, one that is important to every Hindu family: str\u012b dharma, the dharma of the Hindu wife and mother. In Sanskrit str\u012b means \u201cwoman.\u201d Dharma is a rich word which encompasses <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-127-living-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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}