To savor what is most sweet, we often need to shed the most sweat Gita 18 37

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sensitive means, we try to explain Hare Krishna to savor what is most sweet we often need to shed the most sweat no pains, no gains it’s a common saying which reveals a fundamental truth of the world that nothing comes free in this world but at the same time this doesn’t necessarily mean that all pains will lead to gains we have to choose product purposefully and wisely so that we can choose the pain that is the pathway to pain that is the pathway to gain and for this purpose, each one of us needs to choose wisely the Bhagavad Gita points the nature of higher pleasures which are uplifting spiritually, which are situated in the mode of goodness so in 1837 it is stated that that which tastes like poison in the beginning will taste like nectar in the end and this is happiness in the mode of goodness and it actually gives us spiritual intelligence so not only do we become joyful but we also become wise so it’s interesting that sometimes people think that pleasure and wisdom don’t go together but in goodness if we are ready to tolerate the initial pain then pleasure and wisdom come together but the important thing is for our context that there is poison initially which we need to tolerate and resist and persevere through so that means that if we want to grow in our spiritual life we need to begin by the willingness to go to shed sweat so among all sweet things any good habit is valuable but the sweetest of all things is love for the one who is supremely sweet, one who is supremely attractive that is Krishna in fact everything attractive in the world just manifests a spark of his splendor as the Gita 1041 states mam tejo amshi sambhava so he is the sweetest of all realities and connecting with him often requires us to shed the most sweat, not physical sweat but emotional sweat intellectual sweat spiritual sweat that means we have to direct our intelligence toward Krishna we have to focus give up those emotions which take us away from Krishna and prop up strengthen those emotions which take us toward him and ultimately we have to offer our heart and soul to him this is inner work and if we do this inner work we will find that there will be the supreme satisfaction so knowing that we have to shed sweat let us shed sweat for that which will give the most sweet result that is connect to us with and absorb us in Krishna thank you, Hare Krishna