Can our anarthas be dovetailed in Krishna’s service?
So you are saying that there is we can invest our emotions in krishna and we can direct our intentions in krishna's service and there is dovetailing our anarthas in krishna's service so are the two different how do we do this so i would say as far as dovetailing the anarthas is concerned that is something which is very specific say in Narottam das Tapani song says he says kama is not referred to as lust specifically kama means desire so we use the desire to work for krishna and we use our power of desire to fulfill krishna's desire kama krishna karma ambarish maharaj also said that he made his desires the servant of krishna's desires so kama krishna karma like that there is a whole series anger we have we direct the anger towards those who are who are envious of krishna who are blasphemers of krishna that is when we go and beat them up when directing the anger means anger also is energy and it has to be directed properly when we use that anger to systematically logically rationally refute their misconceptions that is properly channeled but that is how it is talked about now for doing this we do require to use our intelligence so whatever be my particular conditioning or interest or nature if i am going to direct krishna's service i have to first of all have my intelligence very clear and if you consider say if this is the circle of bhakti and this is the circle of my interest as per my own nature my own conditioning whatever so then there is some point of intersection among the two say i like sanskrit and scripture and sanskrit i like english and english is the medium by which we are speaking we can speak about krishna to most people today many people today so now if you consider the intersection of the two that is where we want to be situated atleast in sadhaka stage and that is where we will be stable if it is of no interest to us if we feel that it is only for krishna's interest then we will not be able to we will feel that as if we are being deprived and occasionally we may do that but on a steady basis that is the whole principle of arunachala a brahmana has interest in brahmanical activities but brahmana has no brahmanical activities for krishna a kshatriya wants to manage wants to control to rule and they do it for krishna so now so for emotional investment that is our circle of interest that is where we are already emotionally invested but instead of getting emotionally invested in those things which are not connected with krishna we focus on those things which are of our interest which are also connected with krishna and gradually as we keep practicing bhakti then we will move our circle of interest will overlap more and more and we will become more and more emotionally invested in krishna so say initially somebody just likes to sing and they may sing initially they may be singing mundane songs and they come and sing krishna songs also their interest is primarily in singing but they sing about krishna that is their intersection point but over a period of time by singing about krishna they start realizing that when i sing mundane songs i don't get that special thing which i get out of it and thus their interest will not just be only singing it will become in singing for krishna that is how we can we need to use our intelligence to move where we are emotionally invested not just in mundane thing to the intersection of krishna and our interest and then from there more and more to krishna directly.