Living with Siva Nandinatha Sutras: Section 3, The Family Path
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Grihastha Dharmah

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Section 3
The Family Path

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Earth, Ether, Sky! May we be proud possessors of fine children, proud possessors of fine heroes, and be well nourished by fine food.

Yajur Veda, 8.53. HV, P. 91

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Instructions for Men

SUTRA 81: MODESTY WITH WOMEN
Devout Hindu men speak to and associate mostly with men. Conversation with women, especially the wives of other men, is not prolonged. To avoid intimacy, one's gaze is directed at the hairline, not into the eyes. Aum.

SUTRA 82: RESPECT FOR WOMEN
All Siva's men devotees go out of their way to express respect, bordering on reverence, for women. They never demean them in speech, watch vulgar or erotic shows, or associate with lustful or promiscuous women. Aum.

SUTRA 83: KINDLINESS TOWARD WOMEN
Siva's men devotees never argue with women, antagonize, disrespect, tease or abuse them in any way. They are always kindly, protective, helpful and understanding, honoring the mother spirit within women. Aum.

SUTRA 84: WEARING TRADITIONAL CLOTHING
Siva's men devotees dress, whenever appropriate, in impeccable traditional Hindu attire, always at home, in the temple and at religious/cultural events. Their outer elegance is equaled only by their inner dignity. Aum.

SUTRA 85: THE HOME AS REFUGE
Siva's men devotees, on arriving home from work, immediately bathe and enter their shrine for the blessings of Gods and guru to dispel worldly forces and regain the state of Siva consciousness. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Instructions for Husbands

SUTRA 86: CARING FOR ONE'S WIFE
Each of Siva's married men devotees loves and cares for his wife, despite any shortcomings. He is forbidden to strike or speak harshly to her or ignore her needs. If he does, he must seek family and professional help. Aum.

SUTRA 87: RESTRAINT WITH OTHER WOMEN
Siva's married men, in the workplace and in the world, hold a courteous aloofness toward all women, whether young, older, single, married, divorced or widowed. They reserve their affections for wife and family. Aum.

SUTRA 88: COMMUNICATING DAILY
When away from home, each of Siva's married men devotees contacts his wife every day to express his love and inquire about her day. He avoids rowdy company and never visits another woman's home alone. Aum.

SUTRA 89: FULFILLING ALL HER NEEDS AND WANTS
Siva's devotees who are husbands practice the mystical law of caring for and giving the wife all she needs and all she wants, thus releasing her shakti energy from within, making him contented, successful and magnetic. Aum.

SUTRA 90: FAMILY TOGETHERNESS
Each of Siva's devotees who is a husband spends time with his wife and children daily. Monday is a family evening at home. One night monthly is devoted to the wife alone in an activity of her choice. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Instructions for Women

SUTRA 91: WOMEN'S ATTIRE
Siva's women devotees wear, whenever appropriate, traditional Hindu attire, always at home and in the temple, adding rich jewelry for cultural events. Ever modest and elegant, they never expose breasts or thighs. Aum.

SUTRA 92: MODESTY WITH MEN
Devout Hindu women associate mostly with women. Conversation with males, especially married men, is by custom limited. Intimate exchange of energies is avoided by looking at the hairline, not into the eyes. Aum.

SUTRA 93: HER MONTHLY RETREAT
Siva's women devotees, by custom, rest and regenerate physical forces during menses, refraining from heavy or demanding work. On these days they do not enter temples or home shrines, or approach holy men. Aum.

SUTRA 94: UPHOLDING FEMININE DHARMA
Devout Hindu women are fulfilled in living and passing on the dharma to the youth as their special duty, unlike those who, swayed by feminist thinking, feel unfulfilled and criticize Hinduism as being male dominated. Aum.

SUTRA 95: NOT CONTROLLING MEN EMOTIONALLY
Siva's women devotees never become angry with a man, maliciously belittle or verbally abuse him, or use other emotional controls, such as disdain, accusation, crying, or prolonged pouting or silence. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Instructions for Wives

SUTRA 96: SHE WORSHIPS HER WEDDING PENDANT
Each of Siva's married women devotees each morning worships her wedding pendant, for it betokens her dear husband, whom she reveres as Siva Himself, and the spiritual bond and goals she shares with him. Aum.

SUTRA 97: BEING MODEST WITH OTHER MEN
Siva's married women maintain a kindly and modest reserve toward all men, be they young, older, single, married, divorced or widowed. They shower all their love and attention on their husband and family. Aum.

SUTRA 98: FULFILLING MORNING DUTIES
Each of Siva's married women devotees observes the custom of arising before her husband, to bathe, ready the shrine and prepare his morning beverage. First up and last to retire, she is in charge of her home. Aum.

SUTRA 99: MEALTIME CUSTOMS
Each of Siva's married women devotees joyously observes at mealtimes the ancient custom of serving her husband and family first. When they are satisfied, she is fulfilled and only then sits down for her own meal. Aum.

SUTRA 100: TAKING ACTION IF ABUSED
Each of Siva's married women loves and serves her husband, despite any shortcomings. But if he ever strikes her or the children, she is duty-bound to seek help from family, friends and community. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Instructions for the Widowed

SUTRA 101: REMARRYING AFTER WIDOWHOOD
Siva's widowed followers may remarry, provided it is a spiritual union, astrologically compatible, blessed by their preceptor and their religious community. If they remarry, they are no longer considered widowed. Aum.

SUTRA 102: PURSUING THE PATH OF SaDHANA
Siva's widowed devotees who choose not to remarry practice strict continence. They dedicate their lives to God and transmute sexual forces into the higher chakras through sadhana, worship and brahmacharya. Aum.

SUTRA 103: WIDOWS' SIMPLE DRESS
Siva's widowed devotees choosing not to remarry traditionally wear unprovocative white clothing, not yellow or orange. They wear no cosmetics, marriage pendant or elaborate jewelry. Their deportment is demure. Aum.

SUTRA 104: WIDOWHOOD'S INNER OPPORTUNITY
Siva's devotees who are widows or widowers happily throw themselves into yoga practices. Though their loss is great, so too is their opportunity for religious service and the attainment of the highest spiritual goals. Aum.

SUTRA 105: SIGNS OF THE WIDOWED'S INTENT
Siva's widowed devotees not intending to remarry wear holy ash and the forehead mark of sandalpaste, but not red powder. Those wishing to remarry may wear jewelry, cosmetics and colorful clothing. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Instructions for the Unmarried

SUTRA 106: CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE TO A ShaivITE
Siva's young devotees take the celibacy vow and remain virgin until marriage. For lasting happiness and mutual spiritual purpose, they seek to marry a Saivite wisely chosen by their parents, satguru and themselves. Aum.

SUTRA 107: LIVING VIRTUOUSLY WHEN SINGLE
Siva's unmarried adolescent and adult devotees are all considered brahmacharis or brahmacharinis, bound to the wise restraints of chastity that tradition prescribes, whether they have taken a celibacy vow or not. Aum.

SUTRA 108: THE BRAHMACHARINI PATH
Siva's women devotees electing not to marry may live the brahmacharini's celibate life, keeping simple vows and always wearing white. By this the world knows they are unavailable, having chosen the path of devotion. Aum.

SUTRA 109: THE BRAHMACHARI PATH
Siva's men devotees choosing not to marry may take up celibate life, keeping simple vows and wearing white. To be a swami candidate, they must begin an 8-to-12-year period of monastic training before the age of 25. Aum.

SUTRA 110: THE FIRST STEP OF RENUNCIATION
Siva's young men devotees inclined to throw down the world and enter the monastery should read and accept the Holy Orders of Sannyasa and adjust themselves to its ideals before requesting training. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Arranging Marriages

SUTRA 111: CONSIDERATIONS FOR MATCHMAKING
Siva's followers arrange the marriages of their children, seeking sameness of lineage, astrological compatibility, harmony of the two families, total consent of both boy and girl and, foremost, their satguru's blessings. Aum.

SUTRA 112: FORCED MARRIAGE IS PROHIBITED
Siva's followers are forbidden to force any marriage arrangement that overrides astrological incompatibility, the couple's feelings or the guru's advice. To do so would bind them to a life of unsolvable problems. Aum.

SUTRA 113: KEEPING WEDDING COSTS REASONABLE
Weddings are spiritual events among Siva's followers. Ceremonies must never burden the families financially and, while the bride may bring wealth to the marriage, families are forbidden to demand or pay dowries. Aum.

SUTRA 114: THE WRITTEN MARRIAGE COVENANT
Siva's followers compose a written promise to one another before marriage, defining the duties, responsibilities and expectations of their life together. At key junctures in life, they rewrite this vital agreement. Aum.

SUTRA 115: THE ALL-IMPORTANT SUPPORT GROUP Each marriage within a Saivite community enjoys support, strength and encouragement from the satguru and all of Siva's followers, and counsel from elders when needed, especially in times of trial. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Sustaining Marriages

SUTRA 116: THE PURPOSE OF MARRIAGE
Siva's followers look upon their marriage as a spiritual partnership for the purpose of uplifting each other and bringing through higher souls. It is a union not only of a man and woman, but of two entire families. Aum.

SUTRA 117: SUPPORTING RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES
Siva's married followers all encourage their spouses to ardently fulfill sadhana, religious service, meditation, yoga, ritual worship, festivals and pilgrimage. They never discourage such noble expressions of dharma. Aum.

SUTRA 118: TRADITIONS OF CONJUGAL LIFE
Siva's followers who are married regulate their sex life according to traditionally accepted standards. They confine their affectionate looks to one another and do not hold hands, embrace, caress or kiss in public. Aum.

SUTRA 119: ADULTERY AND FIDELITY
Siva's followers are forbidden by Sanatana Dharma to commit adultery or even steal the affections of another's spouse. They treasure fidelity and know that transgressions are rewarded with pain, guilt and remorse. Aum.

SUTRA 120: CELIBACY IN MARRIED LIFE
Siva's followers who have raised their family may, by mutual consent and with satguru's blessings, choose to live in celibacy, as brother and sister, and thus transmute their vital energies into the Divine. Aum Namah Sivaya.

About Divorce

SUTRA 121: VALID CAUSES FOR SEPARATION
In marriages of Siva's followers, adultery, severe neglect, verbal abuse and abandonment may be valid causes for separation but not divorce. Spiritual law recognizes no divorce, and separation is hoped to be temporary. Aum.

SUTRA 122: THE ONLY REASON TO DIVORCE
In marriages of Siva's followers, divorce by man's law may be resorted to in cases of persistent physical abuse to protect the abused spouse. This is the singular regrettable exception to the permanence of marriage. Aum.

SUTRA 123: REMARRIAGE IS DISCOURAGED
Any of Siva's followers who is divorced is by tradition encouraged to not remarry but rather adopt the path of celibacy. They know that marriage is a Godly covenant ideally made with only one spouse in a lifetime. Aum.

SUTRA 124: NOT ATTENDING RITES OF PASSAGE
Siva's traditional priests require that divorced and widowed followers protect auspiciousness by not attending rites of passage, except funerals. However, they may help with preparations and participate in receptions. Aum.

SUTRA 125: DIVORCE AND ShaivA CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
In divorce cases in my Church, except when caused by chronic abuse, the spouse initiating the divorce process is no longer a member. He or she is kept apart and urged to seek out a more lenient lineage. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Hospitality

SUTRA 126: THE GUEST IS GOD IN ShaivA HOMES
Hospitality flows from Siva's followers like sweet music from a vina. Guests are treated as Gods. Friends, relatives, acquaintances, even strangers, are humbled by the overwhelming, ever-willing attention received. Aum.

SUTRA 127: SERVING THE HOLY ONES
Siva's 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 Sanatana Dharma and treat them amicably. Aum.

SUTRA 128: CLOSENESS WITH OTHER FAMILIES
Siva's followers who are householders joyously visit one another's homes and grow together in Godliness. Some religious ceremony or karma yoga is a part of their every gathering. They live as one spiritual family. Aum.

SUTRA 129: RESPECTING ELDERS, NURTURING THE YOUNG Siva's followers honor elders for their wisdom, guidance and compassion. Those who are younger, whatever their age, never disrespect those older than they. Those older nurture and encourage all who are younger. Aum.

SUTRA 130: HELPING ONE ANOTHER
Siva's followers see that the spirit of helping and taking care of one another prevails between family and family, monastery and family. The group helps the individual, and the individual helps the group. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Household Ethics

SUTRA 131: THE HUSBAND'S DHARMA
Each of Siva's married men followers strives to fulfill male dharma, safeguarding the integrity of society and the family through protecting and providing abundantly for his beloved wife, children and parents. Aum.

SUTRA 132: THE WIFE'S DHARMA
Each of Siva's married women followers strives to fulfill female dharma, perpetuating the race, family and the faith through remaining in the home to nurture, guide and strengthen her dear husband and children. Aum.

SUTRA 133: THE STRENGTH OF THE EXTENDED FAMILY
Siva's followers know the most stable societies are based on the extended family. They often merge individuals with families and families with families in one home or complex, for economy, sharing and religiousness. Aum.

SUTRA 134: CARING FOR ELDERS
Siva's followers who are householders care for their parents and close relatives all through life. The elderly especially must be comforted, honored at auspicious times and never left alone for extended periods. Aum.

SUTRA 135: LIMITING THE STAY OF GUESTS
Siva's householder followers, to protect family sanctity and avoid magnetic entanglements, do not allow adult guests in their home for more than three nights who are not part of their extended family. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Raising Worthy Children

SUTRA 136: NURTURING CHILDREN, MEETING DAILY
Siva's followers use astrology, tradition and wise counsel to cultivate each child's inherent talents and higher nature. They hold family meetings daily to share, plan, express love and discuss issues with mutual respect. Aum.

SUTRA 137: TAKING TIME TO TRAIN THE YOUTH Siva's followers who are parents take time to train boys in technical skills, girls in homemaking, and both in music, health, cooking and home management. They celebrate improvements instead of focusing on mistakes. Aum.

SUTRA 138: NOT GOVERNING THROUGH FEAR
Siva's followers never govern youth through fear. They are forbidden to spank or hit them, use harsh or angry words, neglect or abuse them. They know you can't make children do better by making them feel worse. Aum.

SUTRA 139: TEACHING AND MODELING GOOD CONDUCT
Siva's followers love their children, govern them in a kind but firm way and model the five family practices: proper conduct, home worship, religious discussion, continuous self-study and following a preceptor. Aum.

SUTRA 140: TIMELY OBSERVANCE OF SACRAMENTS
Siva's followers provide their children the essential sacraments at the proper times, especially name-giving, first feeding, head-shaving, ear-piercing, first learning, rites of puberty and marriage. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Preserving Family Unity

SUTRA 141: LOGICAL, POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
Siva's followers direct children through affirmations, meaningful chores and rules that are clear and understood, teaching that mistakes are opportunities to learn, and focusing on solutions instead of punishment. Aum.

SUTRA 142: INSPIRING BELONGING AND DIGNITY
Siva's followers encourage and inspire children so they always feel they belong and are significant. If upsets occur, parents use loving, positive strategies such as time-out, logical consequences and denial of privileges. Aum.

SUTRA 143: TRAINING YOUTH IN MONEY MANAGEMENT
Siva's followers who are parents preserve family unity and teach responsibility by not granting youth financial independence. Money is given only for approved expenses, and change is returned with accounting. Aum.

SUTRA 144: POOLING INCOMES FOR FAMILY UNITY
Siva's followers require unmarried progeny living with them who have finished school and are employed to submit, after tithing, all earnings to the family fund. Once betrothed, they manage their own earnings. Aum.

SUTRA 145: DISCIPLINING WITH LOVE
Siva's followers, knowing that misbehaving children are discouraged, take time for play and encouragement, and ensure that discipline is respectful, reasonable and not based on blame, shame or pain. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Preparing Youth for Adult Life

SUTRA 146: GROWING UP IN THE FAMILY OCCUPATION
Siva's followers abide by the tradition of bringing sons and daughters into the family skills, profession or business by involving them from a young age. This is family dharma, family bonding, family perpetuation. Aum.

SUTRA 147: PROVIDING EARLY SEX EDUCATION
Siva's followers teach their sons and daughters, between ages four and ten, about the cycles of life and the principles of virtue, and when puberty arrives, require them to take the sacred vow of celibacy until marriage. Aum.

SUTRA 148: CHERISHING CHASTITY
Siva's young followers are taught to protect their chastity as a treasure and to save sexual intimacy for their future spouse. If a premarital affair does occur, a marriage of the young couple is seriously considered. Aum.

SUTRA 149: RESPONSIBLE CHAPERONING
Siva's followers accept the serious responsibility of guiding the private and social life of their children. They chaperone and monitor friendships to help ensure that young ones grow up safe and celibate. Aum.

SUTRA 150: YOUTH ENTERING MY ShaivA CHURCH
My devotees require children to decide before age twenty whether to enter Saiva Siddhanta Church of their own volition or to choose another path. If they go away, they are always welcome back. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Duties of Young Adults

SUTRA 151: BRINGING OTHERS TO THE ShaivA PATH
Siva's followers who are adolescents use their youthful aggressiveness to teach the Saiva Dharma, inspire and uplift others, bring seekers into their lineage and welcome strayed members back into the Hindu fold. Aum.

SUTRA 152: BRINGING JOY TO THEIR PARENTS
Siva's young adult followers realize they have a debt to their parents for their birth, early raising and education, which they repay with obedience and affection, giving joy, practical assistance and satisfaction. Aum.

SUTRA 153: THE IDEAL YOUTH-PARENT RELATIONSHIP
Siva's young adult followers esteem their mother and father. In respecting their parents, they respect themselves and keep the doors open to parental aid and advice on the churning sea of adolescent experience. Aum.

SUTRA 154: NEVER BENDING TO PEER PRESSURE
Siva's adolescent followers hold their own among their peers and are leaders. To bend to peer pressure and offend the dharma shows weakness of character and parental neglect. Nothing but shame can follow. Aum.

SUTRA 155: PATH CHOOSING FOR YOUNG MEN
Siva's young men followers are free to pursue their born destiny of either renunciation or family life. This choice of two traditional paths is their birthright. Following either, they follow dharma. Aum Namah Sivaya.

About Wealth

SUTRA 156: TRUE WEALTH
Devout Hindus remain dignified in deprivation and humble in prosperity. Knowing that one can be spiritually rich in poverty and spiritually impoverished in affluence, they live bountifully in either world. Aum.

SUTRA 157: BUILDING ECONOMIC SECURITY
Siva's householder devotees strive to own their home and save for retirement. They live within their means in dwellings suitable to their wealth and are regular and completely honest in paying their tithe and taxes. Aum.

SUTRA 158: RESPONSIBLE MONEY MANAGEMENT
Siva's devotees keep a monthly budget and regulate expenses according to their revenues. They never abuse credit or indulge in extravagant buying, for they know that spending in excess of income invites misery. Aum.

SUTRA 159: HANDLING MONEY WISELY
Siva's devotees keep a regular monthly and yearly accounting of income and expenses, and accurate records of all transactions. In every business deal, they make sure that all parties are benefited and are content. Aum.

SUTRA 160: ENDOWMENTS AND WILLS
Siva's devotees dutifully save for their future through Hindu Heritage Endowment and prepare a formal, final will and testament, even when young, that provides funds for their family and temple. Aum Namah Sivaya.

God's Money

SUTRA 161: ONE-TENTH BELONGS TO Shiva
Siva's close devotees take a vow and joyously tithe ten percent of their gross income to their lineage monthly. This is God's money. Using it otherwise is forbidden -- a karma reaping loss exceeding all anticipated gain. Aum.

SUTRA 162: TITHING IS THE FIRST OBLIGATION
My close devotees consider tithing their first expense. They provide a written reconciliation each April, including with it all unremitted tithing. Those behind in tithing are counseled to help them fulfill the vow. Aum.

SUTRA 163: TITHING'S MANY BLESSINGS
Siva's close devotees delight in the unfailing law that by tithing freely and wholeheartedly, with a consciousness of plenty, they become receptive to God's blessings and draw to them abundance and happy experiences. Aum.

SUTRA 164: DHARMIC USES OF MONEY
Siva's close devotees of means utilize their wealth to strengthen their community and their lineage, to support temples, publish books, establish endowments and scholarships, and to sponsor elaborate rituals. Aum.

SUTRA 165: ANNUAL MONETARY GIFT TO THE SATGURU
Siva's close devotees observe the tradition of expressing appreciation to their satguru by giving an annual love offering at Guru Purnima in July-August, thus enabling him to help others on the path. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Guidelines for Business

SUTRA 166: BUSINESS AMONG MEMBERS
My Church members may employ other members, provided payment is made promptly each Friday. They may receive blessings to go into business with one another if their relationships are harmonious and spiritual. Aum.

SUTRA 167: CONTRACTS AND ARBITRATION
My worldly-wise devotees never enter into business transactions without a written contract. In cases of dispute, they avoid courts of law and seek judgment from an arbitration board within their community. Aum.

SUTRA 168: NOT BORROWING OR GIVING CREDIT
My devotees, to safeguard harmony, never borrow or lend money among themselves or give credit to one another, even for interest. They may do business together, but only through immediate cash transactions. Aum.

SUTRA 169: TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES AND SERVANTS
My devotees treat servants and employees honorably, as they would members of their own family, never neglecting or taking advantage of them. They provide conditions that are safe, healthful and uplifting. Aum.

SUTRA 170: BORROWING FROM OTHERS
My wise devotees never borrow from a monastery or temple. They may borrow belongings from other devotees, provided objects are returned within twenty-four hours after the purpose is fulfilled. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Politics and Vocation

SUTRA 171: SERVING COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY
Siva's devotees are patriotic to their nation and concerned about ecology. They strive to give to, advance, support and defend their community and country, never living as outsiders or as predators upon them. Aum.

SUTRA 172: ENTERING POLITICS
Siva's devotees who qualify may, with vigor and indomitable will, enter into politics, overcome opposition and rise to the top to shower good fortune, peace, justice, interracial harmony and care on all people. Aum.

SUTRA 173: RULES FOR POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Siva's devotees freely pursue the politics of their choice, but never subscribe to doctrines that advocate violent revolution or deny religion. My followers do not organize among themselves for political purposes. Aum.

SUTRA 174: PURSUING BENEVOLENT VOCATIONS
Siva's devotees conscientiously choose professions that are helpful and beneficial to all, never destructive, divisive or exploitive. Yea, they are ministers of the Divine, missionaries of a future tranquility yet to be seen. Aum.

SUTRA 175: MIGRATING FOR SPIRITUAL SECURITY
In the event of famine, invasion, tyranny or extreme conditions threatening wealth or life, my devotees may migrate to a place free of harassment where their spiritual life can continue unhindered. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Edicts for Parliamentarians

SUTRA 176: MAINTAINING FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY
Siva's devotees who are parliamentarians live in full conformity with the sacred scriptures, extend protection to all the people as they would to their own children and never bend to bribery, graft or corruption. Aum.

SUTRA 177: PROMOTING SPIRITUAL VALUES
Siva's devotees who are parliamentarians take pains to spread lofty religious tenets and tolerant human values among their constituents. They commission competent people who will enhance all the great world faiths. Aum.

SUTRA 178: JUSTICE AND IMPARTIALITY
Siva's devotees who are parliamentarians have as their platform justice for all and enmity toward none. They know that to show favoritism for one group over another is to sow the seeds of their own downfall. Aum.

SUTRA 179: POLITICAL PERSEVERANCE
Siva's devotees who are parliamentarians face and work through each challenge that comes and are never forced to abdicate. They maintain their office for as long as possible, then seek for the highest next position. Aum.

SUTRA 180: NURTURING ALL FAITHS EQUALLY
Siva's devotees who are parliamentarians grant equal boons to each spiritual sect under their aegis as if it were their own. They know a society is only as free as the freedom enjoyed by its minorities. Aum Namah Sivaya.

Edicts for Scientists

SUTRA 181: KEEPING SCIENCE ETHICAL
Siva's devotees who are scientists are protectors of humanity and stewards of the Earth. They must never compromise their ethics for financial rewards or release inventions before proven safe and beneficial. Aum.

SUTRA 182: HARNESSING SCIENCE WITH RELIGION
Siva's devotees who are scientifically and alchemistically inclined naturally approach each investigation in awe, consider themselves servants of the Divine and subjugate themselves to the guidance of their preceptor. Aum.

SUTRA 183: NONINJURIOUS SCIENCE
Siva's devotees who are scientists or medical researchers refuse to participate in product testing that is harmful to the subject. They are forbidden to take part in any enterprise that promotes death or destruction. Aum.

SUTRA 184: GUARDIANS OF EARTH AND HER PEOPLE
Siva's devotees who are scientists concentrate their energies on bettering the world, conserving its resources and enabling humans to live in harmony with nature and one another. They are noble examples to mankind. Aum.

SUTRA 185: PROTECTING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
Siva's devotees who are scientists must resist the urge to share everything they discover. Certain knowledge has proven dangerous and hurtful to mankind, especially in the hands of the unscrupulous. Aum Namah Sivaya.

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