{"id":1622,"date":"2005-10-12T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/yoga-tradition-en\/yoga-treaties-3712-en\/the-precepts-of-the-gurus-3680-en\/5-the-ten-things-not-to-be-avoided\/"},"modified":"2005-10-12T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T10:47:57","slug":"5-the-ten-things-not-to-be-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/5-the-ten-things-not-to-be-avoided\/","title":{"rendered":"5. The ten things not to be avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/ftphost.infinology.net\/files\/img\/yogaes\/articles\/luana\/fract004.gif\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" \/>1. Ideas, being the radiance of the mind, are not to be avoided.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">2. Thought- forms, being the revelry of Reality, are not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">3. Obscuring passions, being the means of reminding one of Divine Wisdom [which giveth deliverance from them], are not to be avoided [if rightly used to enable one to taste life to the full and thereby reach disillusionment].<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">4. Affluence, being the manure and water for spiritual growth, is not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">5. Illness and tribulations, being teachers of piety, are not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">6. Enemies and misfortune, being the means of inclining one to a religious career, are not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">7. That which cometh of itself, being a divine gift, is not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">8. Reason, being in every action the best friend, is not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">9. Such devotional exercises of body and mind as one is capable of performing are not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">10. The thought of helping others, howsoever limited one\u2019 s ability to help others may be, is not to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These are The Ten Things Not To Be Avoided.<\/p>\n<p>yogaesoteric.net<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Ideas, being the radiance of the mind, are not to be avoided. 2. Thought- forms, being the revelry of Reality, are not to be avoided. 3. Obscuring passions, being the means of reminding one of Divine Wisdom [which giveth deliverance from them], are not to be avoided [if rightly used to enable one to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-precepts-of-the-gurus-3680-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}