Pingala got realization despite having no spiritual environment – why don’t we get realization despite having spiritual environment?

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Jai Krishna. We can ourselves seek by the study practice of it.
The realisation also comes at the actual level of spiritual knowledge. So that’s why it’s not that although different people may be in similar environments, two people may come at the same time that Krishna comes and Krishna goes to meet. But then one person may grow rapidly and the other person may not grow.
And there is no necessary need that the second person may be sincere. If you look at the first person already practicing Bhakti, then you move forward from there. So basically we can just… we focus on the practice of Bhakti.
And the realisation will come later. We don’t know at what point we are in a spiritual journey. Nor do we know at what point who else is in a spiritual journey.
All that we can do is we move forward from where we are. And while practicing Bhakti, we can see if we are doing anything which is towering our realisations. That means if I am lighting a fire and I put water on it, and the fire will not stay lit for long.
So like that if we do devotional activity which awakens our spiritual consciousness, but then again we engage in sensual activities. Like we are putting water on the fire. So we can try to minimise within our capacity, within our realisation, our real possibility, the activities that determine spirituality.
But overall we just keep practicing Bhakti. Krishna, Maharshi, Dalai Lama, all come to me. Please cause this.
So I will keep practicing. But we study, then we limit it. This is what I am doing today.
So what happens? There are moments of insult which we take in our life also. But sometimes we don’t cherish those moments. Just like in my real life, if people go to say some Niagara Falls or something, they take photos.
They want to have those memories. So like that in our spiritual life also, we get moments of deep insight, moments of deep ecstasy, we experience in a profound spiritual way. And then we partake in an infinite spiritual place.
Sometimes in darshan just, sometimes we go on some yatra. These are spiritual, these are moments of great spiritual experiences. We need to consciously cherish them.
We write them down. These are experiences. We can’t just forget about them.
But we can take horrible photos, writing down what we felt. And then later on when we feel a little bit down, we go back a little. The insight that we get, if we treasure them, we will become much better.
An insight, for example, we have a great glass. It’s so nice. It’s a good glass.
And we may sometimes get lost in our notebook. But there are so many notes, we just get lost. But something which is really, something which is deep inside us, which is a special note, we just take that.
By this, we assure Krishna, whenever we give him insight, we give him this, the ecstasy, to pursue it. And Krishna will do it more. And in general, when we are practicing bhakti, we don’t worry too much about whether, why I am not getting realizations.
We just focus on whether I am practicing bhakti nicely. And in that part, in realizing the realizations, they will come. And that’s it.
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