{"id":1630,"date":"2005-10-17T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/yoga-tradition-en\/yoga-treaties-3712-en\/the-precepts-of-the-gurus-3680-en\/9-the-ten-incentives\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T10:12:07","slug":"9-the-ten-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/9-the-ten-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"9. The ten incentives"},"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\/empsl13.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>1. By reflecting upon the difficulty of obtaining an endowed and free human body, mayest thou be incited to adopt the religious career.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">2. By reflecting upon death and the impermanence of life, mayest thou be incited to live piously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">3. By reflecting upon the irrevocable nature of the results which inevitably arise from actions, mayest thou be incited to avoid impiety and evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">4. By reflecting upon the evils of life in the rooooound of successive existences mayest thou be incited to seek Emancipation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">5. By reflecting upon the miseries which all sentient beings suffer, mayest thou be incited to attain deliverance therefrom by enlightenment of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">6. By reflecting upon the perversity and illusory nature of the mind of all sentient beings, mayest thou be incited to listen to, and meditate upon, the Doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">7. By reflecting upon the difficulty of eradicating erroneous concepts, mayest thou be incited to constant meditation [which overcometh them] . <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">8. By reflecting upon the predominance of evil propensities in this Kali-yuga<span>\u00a0 <\/span>[or Age of Darkness], mayest thou be incited to seek their antidote [ in the Doctrine].<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">9. By reflecting upon the multiplicity of misfortunes in this Age of Darkness, mayest thou be incited to perseverance [ in the treading of the Path].<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These are The Ten Incentives.<\/p>\n<p>yogaesoteric.net<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. By reflecting upon the difficulty of obtaining an endowed and free human body, mayest thou be incited to adopt the religious career. 2. By reflecting upon death and the impermanence of life, mayest thou be incited to live piously. 3. By reflecting upon the irrevocable nature of the results which inevitably arise from actions, [&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-1630","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\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}