Is crowding desires out of our mind not superficially distracting?
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is crowding desires out of our mind not superficially distracting? it depends on what it is that we are filling it with like sometimes some people say oh you have to give up drinking try something else, substitution and some people take up eating chocolates instead of drinking ok we say eating chocolates is a lesser evil as compared to drinking but still chocolates taking too many chocolates also is a problem so it’s like we are giving up one bad thing but taking up another superficial thing but actually when we connect with Krishna that is not at all superficial because Krishna is connected with our very core that is the soul so within the practice of bhakti initially there is some amount of discipline that is required see we have to understand that there is a difference between doing what we don’t feel like doing and being superficial being superficial means that ok this is not important for me, I don’t care for it, I don’t value it just for a show for others I am doing it when we are doing something superficially that means we don’t care for it just because others have posted or just to show to others we are doing it but it’s simply a fact of human psychology that our emotions don’t always point the way we want to go or we intend to go so if we rely on our emotions we will never be able to do anything worthwhile so doing something when I don’t feel like doing it that is not necessarily superficial that can very well be a sign of a disciplined person if what I am doing is actually truly important for me with my intelligence I understand this is important with my intentions I have understood that this is what I have decided this is what I want to do but right now I don’t feel like doing it so determination means to subordinate emotion to intention determination means that this is my emotion this is my intention the two both work together great and sometimes they will but sometimes they will not so if my emotion points in some other direction my intention points in this direction so I subordinate my emotion to my intention that is not being superficial that is actually being disciplined and that is the way to growth that is the way to bringing out our best so when we are with our intelligence we have decided as an intention to do something which is constructive which is positive for us even if I don’t feel like doing it that is not superficial that is being determined