​When the spiritual-material are done together, does the spiritual component increase with age?

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the spiritual component increases and ultimately we attain salvation yes when I say the spiritual when you say the spiritual component increases it means that our spiritual our consciousness focuses more on spiritual reality it’s like say somebody speaks for the first time in public first occasion according to some surveys public speaking is the greatest fear of people more than the fear of death also so now if we speak for the first time in public at that time we were very conscious how does my dress look like how is my hairstyle how is this how is that and then at that time we are basically conscious of externals or even if you look at audience what is this person how is this person looking this person is hearing so for us we know we have gone there to speak but the speaking is just one thing we are conscious of hundred other things at that time and those other things sometimes paralyze people stage fright is actually not speaking inability it is domination of consciousness by other things because of which one is not able to speak but as a person keeps speaking regularly then over a period of time they are also aware ok who is there how many people are attentive where am I sitting how am I dressed but these things go into the background and it focus on the content of my speech so when just like for the first time a person flies and say if people have been living in a poor country where airplanes are not so common and first time they start flying they think I have only developed wings now they want to send photos to air I flew in an airplane it is a big thing for them but over a period of time if you keep flying regularly then you know that I am flying is not as important as where I am flying and why I am flying so the same thing that was central initially becomes incidental eventually the same thing when I am speaking initially oh how do I look what are other people thinking about me those things which are central in my consciousness initially eventually they become incidental and my primary purpose of speaking becomes central like that the more we become spiritually evolved which does happen as we progress over age but it can happen it may not happen just by age but actually when we spiritually progress then it is not necessary that we will change our activities but rather we will while we are doing the same activity the spiritual will become central initially even when we are doing a spiritual activity the material component is more central to us so for example if if I am eating food now the food that we eat here is actually not just vegan food it is sanctified food spiritualized food so now initially when I eat I just look at its taste but then as we become more spiritually aware then our focus is not just on this is food this is actually spiritualized food so the focus of our awareness changes and yes in some cases even the quantity of spiritual activities that we do may also change but more important the quantity of spiritual activities changing how much spiritual we do how much material we do more important that in whatever we do the spiritual becomes more central to us rather than the material so I will give another example to conclude this answer that suppose you know a person goes for a job for the first day at that time they are very conscious who is my boss what is my boss thinking about me who are my colleagues and then at that time the work is actually in the background and the purpose of the work is even more in the background but suppose a person is working for 5 years 10 years and they go to office now they are still doing their work attentively but in their heart they are thinking I have my family at home I have to take care of my family members and that’s why I am working so what is happening here the work is happening still and one is aware of the work but the focus the consciousness bigger reality that is there also is that for what I am working so like that when we become more and more spiritually evolved we still keep doing the work that we may be doing but our consciousness in our consciousness Krishna becomes much more central we become rooted in spiritual reality much more so the material becomes incidental and the spiritual becomes central in whatever we are doing does it answer your question thank you