{"id":933,"date":"2026-08-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=933"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-127-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-127-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 127 \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-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\">What Is the Nature of the Veda Texts?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 127<br>The holy Vedas, man\u2019s oldest scripture, dating back 6,000 to 8,000 years, are a collection of four books: the \u1e5aig, S\u0101ma, Yajur and Atharva. Each has four sections: hymns, rites, interpretation and philosophical instruction. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>The oldest and core portions of the Vedas are the four Sa\u1e41hit\u0101s, \u201chymn collections.\u201d They consist of invocations to the One Divine and the Divinities of nature, such as the Sun, the Rain, the Wind, the Fire and the Dawn\u2014as well as prayers for matrimony, progeny, prosperity, concord, domestic rites, formulas for magic, and more. They are composed in beautiful metrical verses, generally of three or four lines. The heart of the entire Veda is the 10,552-verse \u1e5aig Sa\u1e41hit\u0101. The S\u0101ma and Yajur Sa\u1e41hit\u0101s, each with about 2,000 verses, are mainly liturgical selections from the \u1e5aig; whereas most of the Atharva Sa\u1e41hit\u0101\u2019s nearly 6,000 verses of prayers, charms and rites are unique. The S\u0101ma is arranged for melodious chanting, the Yajur for cadenced intonation. Besides its Sa\u1e41hit\u0101, each Veda includes one or two Br\u0101hma\u1e47as, ceremonial handbooks, and \u0100ra\u1e47yakas, ritual interpretations, plus many inestimable Upanishads, metaphysical dialogs. In all there are over 100,000 Vedic verses, and some prose, in dozens of texts. The Tirumantiram confirms, \u201cThere is no dharma other than what the Vedas say. Dharma\u2019s central core the Vedas proclaim.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Nature of the Veda Texts? \u015aLOKA 127The holy Vedas, man\u2019s oldest scripture, dating back 6,000 to 8,000 years, are a collection of four books: the \u1e5aig, S\u0101ma, Yajur and Atharva. Each has four sections: hymns, rites, interpretation and philosophical instruction. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAThe oldest and core portions of the Vedas are the four <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-127-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-933","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\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}