{"id":96,"date":"2026-04-10T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-365-merging-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-365-merging-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 365 \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\/08\/MwS-Lesson-365.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\">Eternal Questions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people think of the realization of timeless, formless, spaceless Para\u015biva, nir\u00advi\u00adkalpa sam\u0101\u00addhi, as the most blissful of all blissful states, the opening of the heavens, the descent of the Gods, as a moment of supreme, sublime joyousness; whereas I have found it to be more like cut glass, diamond-dust dar\u00adshan, a psychic surgery, not a blissful experience at all, but really a kind of near-death experience resulting in total transformation. The bliss that is often taught as a final attainment is actually another attainment, Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda, an aftermath of nir\u00advi\u00adkalpa sam\u0101\u00addhi, and a \u201cbefore-math.\u201d This means that Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda, savikalpa sam\u0101\u00addhi, may be attained early on by souls pure in heart. It also means that one need not gauge the highest attainment on the basis of bliss, which it transcends. <br><br>In my experience, the an\u0101\u00adhata cha\u00adkra is the resting place of dynamic complacency, of thoughtful perception and quietude. Those of a lower nature arriving in the bloom of this cha\u00adkra are released from turbulent emotions, conflicting thoughts and disturbances. This to many is the end of the path, attaining peace, or \u015b\u0101nti. Once one attains \u015b\u0101nti as just described, in my experience, this marks the beginning of the path, or part two, the second level. It is from here that the practices of r\u0101ja yoga take hold, once \u015b\u0101nti is attained. In the an\u0101\u00adhata cha\u00adkra and vi\u015buddha cha\u00adkra, Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda, the all-pervasive being of oneness, of the underlying being of the universe, is attained, experienced. <br><br>But unless brahmacharya, chastity, is absolutely adhered to, the experience is not maintained. It is here that relations between men and women play an important part, as in their union temporary oneness occurs, followed by a more permanent two-ness and ever-accumulating distractions, sometimes along with insolvable difficulties. Those who practice sexual tantras, seeking Self Realization through this path, will agree with this wisdom. <br><br>Does Self Realization bring bliss to the realized one? Self Realization is in several stages. Realizing oneself as a soul\u2014rather than a mind, an intellectual and emotional type, or a worthless person\u2014gives satisfaction, security, and this is a starting point. Realization of the Self as Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda gives contentment, a release from all emotions and thoughts of the external world, and the nerve system responds to the energies flowing through the vi\u015buddha and an\u0101\u00adhata cha\u00adkras. Realizing the Self that transcends time, form and space, Para\u015biva, is a razor-edged experience, cutting all bonds, reversing individual awareness, such as looking out from the Self rather than looking into the Self. <br><br>There are many boons after this transforming experience, if repeated many times. One or two occurrences does make a renunciate out of the person and does make the world renounce the renunciate, but then, without persistent effort, former patterns of emotion, intellect, lack of discipline, which would inhibit the repeated experience of Para\u015biva, would produce a disoriented nomad, so to speak. Therefore, repeated experiences of the ego-destructive Para\u015biva, from all states of consciousness, intellectual, instinctive, even in dreams, permeates the transformation through atoms and molecules even in the physical body. It is then that the bliss can be enjoyed of Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda\u2014and simultaneously, I would say, Sat\u00adchid\u00ad\u0101nanda and the rough, unrelenting, timeless, formless, spaceless Para\u015biva merge in a not-merging way, such as light and darkness in the same room. This is different than the concept of s\u0101yujya sam\u0101\u00addhi, which is maintaining the perpetual bliss within the fourth and fifth cha\u00adkra and stimulating the sixth and seventh. For this to be maintained, a certain isolation from worldly affairs and distracting influences is required to prevent the reawakening of previously unsatisfied desires, repressed tendencies or unresolved subconscious conflicts. <br><br>Someone asked, \u201cIf realization in and of itself is not blissful, then what impels a soul that has arrived at bliss to strive for further realizations?\u201d We are all moving forward to our ultimate goal of merging with \u015aiva. Bliss quiets the senses. It is the natural state of the mind when unperturbed by previous desires unfulfilled, desires yet to be fulfilled and the desires known to not be fulfillable. As long as the an\u0101\u00adhata and vi\u015buddha cha\u00adkras spin at top velocity, the senses will be quieted, few thoughts will pass through the mind unbidden, and the understanding of the Vedas and all aspects of esoteric knowledge will be able to be explained by the preceptor. Many choose to remain here, as the explainers of the inexplainable, and not go on\u2014deep into the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh cha\u00adkras, into the beyond of the beyond, the quantum level, the core of the universe itself. There comes a point when the powers of evolution move one forward, and even these desireless ones desire the greatest un\u00adfold\u00adment, once they have found out that it is there to be desired. <br><br>Realizing Para\u015biva is merging with \u015aiva, but it is not the end of merging. At that pinpoint of time, there are still the trappings of body, mind and emotions that claim awareness into their consciousness. Ultimately, when all bodies\u2014physical, astral, mental, even the soul body\u2014wear out their time, as all forms wear out in time, bound by time, existing in time, as relative realities, then vi\u015bvagr\u0101sa, the final merger with \u015aiva, occurs, as the physical body drops away, the astral body drops away, the mental body drops away, and the soul\u2014a shining, scintillating being of light quantums\u2014merges into its source. As when a drop of water merges into the ocean, it can never be retrieved, only \u015aiva remains. 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