Is multi-tasking desirable or undesirable?

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Thank you. Yeah, right.
Is multitasking desirable or undesirable for focusing or being productive? See, there is a shoe that fits one leg, bites another leg. Similarly, what works for one person does not work for another person. So, different people are simply different.
Some people can do one thing at a time. Of course, we all do one thing at a time. But some people, they are so, you could say, mentally voracious.
If you tell them to do one thing at a time, they just can’t do it. You know, and each individual has to be honest. Sometimes some people have one screen open on their computer and they work on that.
Some people have two or three monitors. And then some people say, no, if I have two or three monitors, I get distracted. Some people say, no, if two or three monitors are there, I can keep a watch on other things also.
So, now, it’s a matter of individual preference, whether you want to work with two monitors or three monitors or one monitor. So, like that, some people say we should never multitask. But some people can do it well.
Some people can’t. So, it’s not necessarily advantage or disadvantage. We have to see what is the way I work the best.
And we need to give due attention to whatever we are doing. And how we can give the due attention, that will vary according to person to person. And sometimes it can vary according to task to task also.
So, in some tasks, we can do multitasking. In some tasks, we may not be able to do. So, usually, based on our nature, certain tasks are very easy for us.
And when those tasks are easy, they don’t engage us enough. So, if at that time, we do something else also, that engages us. Some people are, say, very visual, very kinesthetic.
They want to move precisely. They want to keep everything well organized. So, for those people, when they’re cleaning also, they are very careful in arranging everything well.
For some people, cleaning is just a core to get me done. So, for them, they want to maybe hear something or sing something or do something else to get the core done. So, it doesn’t matter how we are.
Rather than thinking of this, thinking of such things as right or wrong, we can think of these as right or wrong for me. And don’t extrapolate what works or does not work for us on others. We, when dealing with the mind, we use the strategy that works best for us.
And we encourage others to find a strategy that works best for them. When I take darshan of the Deities, I always find that if I recite some verses, some shlokas, that helps me to connect with the Deities. I think, oh, this verse is describing Krishna, describing the Lord.
That same Lord is present over here. So, once I spoke in a class, we can recite verses when we’re taking darshan of the Deities. And then, after two days, one devotee came to me and he said that, you told that we should recite verses.
But when I go in front of the Deities, and then I think of remembering the verse, remembering that verse causes so much tension that whatever bhakti is there goes away. So, what works for me doesn’t work for that person. So, it’s not right or wrong.
It’s just that what is right for me or wrong for me. According to that, we can decide. Does it answer your question? Yes, Madhani.
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