{"id":1645,"date":"2007-04-24T18:51:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/the-wings-of-light\/the-wings-of-light-part-1\/seven-categories\/"},"modified":"2012-10-28T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T09:35:55","slug":"seven-categories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=1645","title":{"rendered":"Seven Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who sees good<br \/>\nIn all, and everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>A second class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who sees good<br \/>\nAs good and bad as bad.<\/p>\n<p>A third class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who uses his binoculars<br \/>\nTo enlarge the bad qualities<br \/>\nAnd diminish the good qualities of others.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who enjoy his good qualities<br \/>\nAnd enjoy other&#8217;s bad qualities.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who tries to devour <br \/>\nOthers&#8217; good qualities<br \/>\nAnd ignores his own bad qualities.<\/p>\n<p>A sixth class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who feels that<br \/>\nEven God Himself is not always <br \/>\nPerfect, let alone his Master.\n<\/p>\n<p>A seventh class disciple<br \/>\nIs he who thinks that he has made <br \/>\nA serious mistake<br \/>\nIn accepting the spiritual life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Excerpt from &#8216;<a href=\"..\/the_wings_of_light_part_1\">The Wings of Light Part 1<\/a>&#8216; by&nbsp; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Copyright &copy; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a> 1975<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Links<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/\">Library of Sri Chinmoy Poetry<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href=\"\/selected-poems\/\">Selected Poetry<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/aphorisms\">Aphorisms<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1546,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1645\/revisions\/5611"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}