{"id":675,"date":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/yoga-tradition-en\/yoga-treaties-3712-en\/master-disciple-relationship-3680-en\/the-masters-role\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","slug":"the-masters-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-masters-role\/","title":{"rendered":"The Master&#8217;s Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indispensability of the <B>guru-shishya (master-disciple) relationship<\/B> appears to be a simple superstition in this age of rationalism. However, even though each of us has a spark of divine light, there are&nbsp;few who can sense its presence. How many of us can be open to accept His (God&#8221;s) directions?<BR><BR>In the spiritual field, as well as&nbsp;other fields, there are valuable guides who have&nbsp;genuine deep knowledge and&nbsp;are endowed with&nbsp;rich experience. They can&nbsp;offer the essentials to us at the right time, and can be of great help in using<B> time, energy and effort efficiently<\/B>.&nbsp;They can also help us to get rid of suffering and the possibility of&nbsp;failure. <BR><BR>Similarly, the Guide will act with wisdom to help us relinquish aberrant and unhealthy habits which may&nbsp;impede our spiritual evolution. This will facilitate our awakening and amply&nbsp;capacities for elevating our being.<BR><BR>In actual fact the role of a spiritual master is <B>to accompany you on the spiritual path to its end. The only goal is the Infinite, which we all call GOD.<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indispensability of the guru-shishya (master-disciple) relationship appears to be a simple superstition in this age of rationalism. However, even though each of us has a spark of divine light, there are&nbsp;few who can sense its presence. How many of us can be open to accept His (God&#8221;s) directions?In the spiritual field, as well as&nbsp;other [&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":[806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-master-disciple-relationship-3680-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}