{"id":27280,"date":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/2003\/04\/01\/conditions-for-success-and-obstacles\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","slug":"conditions-for-success-and-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/conditions-for-success-and-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions for success and obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The main conditions to successfully practice the Art of Blessing are the following:<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0great faith in God;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\u2022\u00a0love for God;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\u2022\u00a0a clear and profound understanding of the divine processes that start in the moment of blessing;
\u2022\u00a0a genuine state of humility and abnegation;
\u2022\u00a0awakening and maintaining the state of a child (innocence and candor);
\u2022\u00a0to pursue altruism and diminish the ego;
\u2022\u00a0a deep understanding that the reality of God the Father is a complete and overwhelming Mystery;
\u2022\u00a0acceptance of the fact that God the Father is permanently present in us as our Supreme Self (Atman);
\u2022\u00a0the firm conviction that when we have the state of a child, full of humility, and ask God for something which is in accord with the divine laws, He will give us what we are asking for;
\u2022\u00a0the constant effort to surpass the ego through humility and sincere aspiration for God the Father because the intensity of communion with the Supreme Energy poured on us by the Almighty Spirit of God is directly proportional to how much we diminish of our ego;
\u2022\u00a0we have to cultivate the true kindness, the power to totally forgive;
\u2022\u00a0and to inwardly purify ourselves thus to be able to rapidly transform spiritually. <\/span><\/p>\n

The free will with which the human being is endowed is a divine gift that we must know how to use. Through it, we are free to do what we want, but we must know that not everything is permitted to us. In the Art of Blessing, the man who implores to God proposes, and a short time afterwards God disposes. The smaller the ego, the bigger the intensity of the supreme divine energy we receive through Sahasrara (the crown chakra) during a blessing. The divine answer that anyone can receive while practicing the Art of Blessing is a way to test our level of selfishness with the condition that we are sincere and not lying ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The main inner obstacles which could determine some human beings not to realize successfully the Art of Blessing are the following:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0a lack of faith in God;
\u2022\u00a0a pride, haughtiness, and sense of self-sufficiency;
\u2022\u00a0a lack of love, hatred;
\u2022\u00a0a licentiousness, vice, harlotry, softness, fascination for luxury;
\u2022\u00a0greed;
\u2022\u00a0selfishness;
\u2022\u00a0a parsimony, avarice;
\u2022\u00a0badness, sadism;
\u2022\u00a0fury, violence, crime;
\u2022\u00a0a derisive skepticism;
\u2022\u00a0passions: envy, jealousy, gossip, vengefulness;
\u2022\u00a0laziness, apathy, sloth, indolence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one who still doesn\u2019t succeed in practicuing the Art of Blessing will have to sincerely ask himself which of these obstacles is present in his case and eliminate that problem. It is very important to insist again and again and God\u2019s answer, if it is asked for with sincerity and faith, will not delay in coming. No obstacle is permanent in man\u2019s efforts to become closer to God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The main conditions to successfully practice the Art of Blessing are the following: \u2022\u00a0great faith in God;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0love for God;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0a clear and profound understanding of the divine processes that start in the moment of blessing; \u2022\u00a0a genuine state of humility and abnegation;\u2022\u00a0awakening and maintaining the state of a child (innocence and candor);\u2022\u00a0to pursue altruism […]<\/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":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-art-of-blessing-1604-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","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=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}