{"id":179598,"date":"2026-09-15T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/?p=179598"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:06:10","slug":"the-mother-on-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/the-mother-on-vigilance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother on Vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vigilance<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> ( extract from&#8221;\u00a0 Comentaries on the Dhammapada &#8221; by the Mother)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vigilance means to be awake, to be on one&#8217;s guard, to be sincere &#8211; never to be taken by surprise. When you want to do sadhana, at each moment of your life, there is a choice between taking a step that\u00a0 leads to the goal, or falling asleep or sometimes even going backwards telling yourself &#8221; oh later on, not immediately&#8221; sitting down on the way<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To be vigilant is not merely to resist what pulls you down ward, but above all to be alert in order not to lose any opportunity to progress, any opportunity to overcome a weakness, to resist a temptation, an opportunity to learn somethoing, to correct something, to master something. If you are vigilant, you can do in a few days what would otherwise take years. If you are vigilant\u00a0 you change each circumstance of your life, each action, each movement into an occasion for coming nearer the goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are two kinds of vigilance, active and passive. There is a vigilance that gives you warning if you are about to make a mistake, if you are making wrong choices, if you are being weak or allowing yourself to be tempted,\u00a0 and there is the acive vigilance which seeks an opportunity to progress, seeks to utilise every circumstances, to advance more quickly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0There is a difference between preventing yourself from falling and advancing more quickly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And both are absolutely necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*********************<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vigilance ( extract from&#8221;\u00a0 Comentaries on the Dhammapada &#8221; by the Mother) Vigilance means to be awake, to be on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179603,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179598\/revisions\/179603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}