Won’t cultivating satisfaction take away our urge to improve?
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isn’t it dissatisfaction that inspires us to do better whatever we are doing without that if we are satisfied what will be the urge to improve the word satisfaction sometimes it can refer to different things so when I use the word satisfaction it is more in terms of not letting stray desires make not letting stray desires steal away our basic sense of satisfaction that means say I am going along the road to my office there is an important meeting but along the way there is a hotel maybe I will go and eat this or along the way there is a movie say I will go and watch this or there will be a garden I will just go and take a jog over there so these are stray desires now if I let myself get carried away if I feel if I let myself feel dissatisfied oh I can’t go and eat over there oh I can’t watch this movie then that dissatisfaction is actually distractor but I have a purpose I have to go to the office and I have to do something over there and unless I have that purpose I will not even go to the office ok I want to earn a living or I want to perform so that I get an increment, I get a promotion or whatever so that purpose is important so in that sense we can say that satisfaction is more a selection of desire rather than the rejection of desire so I talked about how when we are spiritually connected when we are devotional connected then there is no dissatisfaction in the sense of insecurity I will just complete this answer so there is no insecurity, there is no lack of self-esteem there is no self-worth problems but there is a desire for contribution and yes so God has given me these abilities and I have to work only by work will I be able to improve all these abilities will I be able to contribute better so basically so I talked about two aspects there is no distraction by stray desires but the selection of desire and second is there is no insecurity from within because one is secure in one’s connection with Krishna but after being secure in one’s connection with Krishna secure in one’s connection with Krishna one also wants to have contribution for that contribution one is ready to work so that’s how we can have the urge for improvement and still have satisfaction thank you