{"id":985,"date":"2026-08-25T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=985"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-136-living-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-136-living-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 136 \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-136.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\">The Home As a Temple<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This working together of the home and the temple brings up the culture and the religion within the family. The family goes to the temple; the temple blesses the family\u2019s next project. The mother returns home. She keeps an oil lamp burning in the shrine room on the altar to bring the \u015bakti power of the God and devas into their home. This is only one of the beautiful practices of her religious str\u012b dharma, so sensitive and so vital to the furtherance of the family and its faith. All this happens because her astral body is not fretted by the stresses and strains of a worldly life, not polluted by the lustful thoughts of other men directed toward her, causing her to live in the emotional astral body to ward them off, or be tempted by them. She is not living in the emotional astral body. She is living in her peaceful soul body of love, fulfilling her dharma and radiating the soulful presence called sannidhy\u0101. She was born to be a woman, and that\u2019s how a woman should behave. <br><br>If she does not do her dharmic duty\u2014this means the duty of birth\u2014then she accrues bad karma. Every time she leaves the home to go out to work, she is making kukarma. Yes, she is. That negative karma will have its affect on her astral body and on her husband\u2019s astral body and on the astral bodies of their children, causing them to become insecure. <br><br>The Judaic-Christian-Islamic idea of just one life, after which you either go to heaven or to hell gives the impression that time is running out. Some even think \u201cyou have to get everything out of this life, because when you\u2019re gone, you\u2019re gone, so grab all the gusto that you can.\u201d This has given the modern Western woman the idea that she is not getting everything she should, and therefore the man\u2019s world looks doubly attractive, because she is just passing through and will never come back. So, living a man\u2019s life is very, very attractive. She doesn\u2019t want to stay home all the time and not see anything, not meet anybody, go through the boredom of raising a family, taking care of the children. She wants to be out with life, functioning in a man\u2019s world, because she is told that she is missing something. Therefore, you can understand her desire to get out and work, start seeing and experiencing life and mixing with people, meeting new people. <br><br>The traditional Hindu woman, however, does not look at life like that. She knows that she was born this time in a woman\u2019s body\u2014this soul has taken an incarnation for a time in a woman\u2019s body\u2014to perform a dharma, to perform a duty, for the evolution of the soul. The duty is to be a mother to her children, wife to her husband, to strengthen the home and the family, which are the linchpin of society. She knows that the rewards are greater for her in the home. She knows that all she is missing is a man\u2019s strenuous work and responsibility, that her str\u012b dharma is equally as great as a man\u2019s purusha dharma, even though they are quite different by nature. Because she knows these things, she fulfills her dharma joyously. <\/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 136: NURTURING CHILDREN, MEETING DAILY<br>\u015aiva\u2019s followers use astrology, tradition and wise counsel to cultivate each child\u2019s inherent talents and higher nature. They hold family meetings daily to share, plan, express love and discuss issues with mutual respect. Aum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home As a Temple This working together of the home and the temple brings up the culture and the religion within the family. The family goes to the temple; the temple blesses the family\u2019s next project. The mother returns home. 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