When the mind starts misleading, does the Supersoul intervene?

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When the mind is so loud, does the super soul intervene? Yes, the super soul is always there with us. At the same time, the super soul has given all of us free will.
So depending on whether we, in the past by our actions have shown the super soul, I want to hear you or I don’t want to hear you. So if repeatedly we are told, I don’t, I’m not interested in hearing you, then the super soul voice becomes mute. It is not that super soul doesn’t want to help us, but the super soul doesn’t interfere with our free will.
So if we are regularly hearing Krishna, say, the super soul can speak inside us, but the super soul can also speak through Guru Sadhu Shastra externally. The same super soul is manifesting when we chant the holy names. So when we are doing our devotional activity nicely and are trying to connect with Krishna, at least showing Krishna that we want to connect with him, then those actions will lead to, when the mind starts speaking something, the super soul will speak and we’ll be able to hear it.
So there’s this beautiful explanation of mattah smritir jnanam apohanam ca. 15.15 Krishna says, I give remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. So now when does, about what does Krishna give remembrance and what does he give forgetfulness? That depends on our desires.
If my driving desire in life is to serve Krishna. But sometimes mundane desires, anti-devotional desires start coming up. So when those desires come up, if I’m determined to, if I’m steadily serving Krishna, then over a period of time, Krishna will give me remembrance of the joy of Krishna consciousness.
And he will give me that smriti will be of remembrance of the joy of Krishna consciousness and this smriti, apohana, the forgetfulness will be of the pleasure of material life. So when that happens, then this voice becomes completely disempowered. It’s like some people, they’re speaking and they have lost their voice.
Their lips are moving but no sound is coming. So when Krishna does his magic inside us, the mind may speak but no voice comes out of it. So that is a state when we are liberated from this troubling voice inside us.
So when we consistently practice bhakti, Krishna does that. But if we are only intermittently and half-heartedly practicing bhakti and we also want to do worldly things a lot, then we may hear scripture a lot. But when the temptation comes, at that time seeing our desire, Krishna reciprocates.
And he reciprocates, what does he do? He gives us forgetfulness of the voice of scripture and gives us remembrance of the pleasures of the world. So Krishna basically reciprocates with our desire. So it is very difficult for us to always be Krishna conscious when the mind starts screaming.
But what we can do is, in the intervening period, whenever the mind is not distracting us, that time we can try to practice bhakti as seriously as we can. So during those times we show Krishna, I want to hear you. I want to be conscious of you.
Then at other times, when the mind’s voice is making consciousness of you impossible, at that time Krishna will see what is our majority desire. And he will reciprocate accordingly. It may happen immediately, it may happen after some time.
So the Supersoul’s voice is there. But the Supersoul will interrupt the mind’s voice only if we have shown him that we want it to be interrupted. But if we have repeatedly shown that this is what I want to do and I don’t care who says what, then the Supersoul will give a hands-off approach.