{"id":4832,"date":"2020-07-27T07:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2020-07-27T07:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T01:33:51","slug":"dependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/dependent\/","title":{"rendered":"dependent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do we have to be dependent on alcohol, drugs, smoking, or a guru? Is it because we are scared to accept and live our lives in real sense? We have read or heard that the consumption of foreign substances will make us better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel we are scared of living as we are. Why can&#8217;t we see inwardly? We are afraid of accepting ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the guarantee that the dependence of external substances will guide in the right direction? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When this life is ours, are we not supposed to self introspect, learn our nature, and live with it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we have to be dependent on alcohol, drugs, smoking, or a guru? Is it because we are scared to accept and live our lives in real sense? We have read or heard that the consumption of foreign substances will make us better? I feel we are scared of living as we are. Why &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/dependent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;dependent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}