Do the spikes of desire vanish when we become spiritually advanced?
So when we come to advanced levels of bhakti is it that the spikes vanish the spikes of desire that come, do they vanish and without those spikes we move towards Krishna, yes yogi yunjit, satatam, no yunjan, evam, sadat, manam yogi, vigat kalmashah sukhena brahma samsparsham atyantam sukham asnute prashantam anasam yenam, yoginam sukham uttamam, upaitim shantarajasam brahma bhutam kalmasham the sixth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita talks a lot about controlling the mind, at 6.27 and 28 they say by steady practice of yoga in our case it is bhakti yoga, by steady practice of bhakti yoga what will happen? prashantam anasam yenam, the mind will become peaceful, at that time yoginam sukham uttamam the yogi will experience the uttamasukha, the highest happiness upaitim shantarajasam the rajoguna the passion within the mind which is making it restless that itself engulfs sometimes to gain peace of mind we may go to a peaceful place, we may go to a hill station, that also helps in getting peace, but actually the problem is not just having agitating extremities, the problem is agitating internals so that the force which agitates the mind that force itself goes down and then shantarajasam become peaceful, brahma bhutam kalmasham akalmasham we become free from impurities and we realize our spiritual nature brahma bhutam this happens by the steady practice of bhakti definitely we can come to a stage where there are no spikes and where we can actually without the mind distracting us, we can use the mind to focus wholeheartedly on Krishna that is the stage when the mind becomes our friend and it helps us in moving towards Krishna any other questions?