In the metaphor of mind as inner screen how does purification occur? (Vedic wisdom)

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so if you if you want to say that in terms of inner screen how does purification happen I give the example say if we have if in our computer we have visited a particular site say bollywood.com many times then we come to temple or we come to spiritual program and hear about Bhagavad Gita and then now we want to search in google for Bhagavad Gita we type B and immediately it comes bollywood.com so what has happened just like there are preferences stored in our browser similarly the actions that we have done in the past they are stored as impressions within us and the past impressions become the present propositions the past somebody has drunk alcohol a lot those past impressions will come let’s go and drink somebody has never drunk there is no impression over there their browser is blank type B bollywood.com is not going to come so basically for us we could say purification happens in multiple ways one is by simply repetition if I just keep visiting bhagavad gita again and again bhagavad gita.com then if I type B bhagavad gita will come so similarly by mechanical repetition of devotional activity also the fresh impressions are formed in the mind and they can remove the negative impressions and that’s how people by mechanical repetition of a particular activity people who are not even spiritual or devotional they can also form new habits and they can also conceivably break old behavioral patterns so we could say this is simply the repetition method bhakti also involves so purification basically means the unwanted propositions stop coming so bollywood.com just stops coming over there so for us if we consider there will be three stages first is intellectual conviction that I don’t want to visit bollywood.com I don’t want to do these things so that is what we get by our study of scriptures this is something which is unwanted and I need to free myself from it conviction is not purification conviction is simply the decision or the resolution that this is where I want this is where I want to go yeah determination the second we could say is intellectual conviction then devotional application devotional application means that I just go to bhakti.com again and again wherever the mind wanders bring it back to me so that is like choosing repetition again and again but third is then there is spiritual purification where the unwanted tendencies just disappear so in terms of the inner screen when we keep Krishna when we keep invoking Krishna on the inner screen then the unwanted material things will stop manifesting over there. These propositions will either not come that forcefully and that frequently or eventually they may stop coming entirely. So this is how purification gradually takes place and for us there is conviction there is application and then there is purification.
So now purification will take time in general. That’s why we need regular we could say boosting of our conviction by which the application will go on so if there is no conviction and the application also stops most of the time so if I am not convinced that I should visit bhagavad-gita.com then sometimes I go to bhagavad-gita, sometimes I go to Bollywood then if I just keep oscillating then the Bollywood still stays over there and it will keep coming back