Does repeated exposure to something we are averse always increase our aversion – doesn’t krishna-bhakti taste like poison initially and nectar eventually?
So if I say repeated exposure leads to aversion or something but we also say that repeated exposure to Krishna to sadhana bhakti leads to attraction just like when we take sugarcane juice in a jaundice condition I think the context there are very different the primary context here is that the same object we are exposed to again and again, alcoholics they keep drinking and their craving for alcohol increases if somebody is angry with someone, the more they interact with them the anger increases more and more out of sight is out of mind as we say so that is also a principle that applies but I would say that applies to material material stimuli with respect to spiritual stimuli there is not just the interaction going on there is also the purification that is going on so Krishna is supremely attractive but we don’t perceive he is attractive essentially and to the extent we start perceiving his attractiveness to that extent we move forwards in our life so we start moving we start becoming more and more attracted and we start getting more and more satisfied so when there is repeated contact with Krishna through the process of bhakti through the process of sadhana bhakti that purifies us at the same time it may also happen that if somebody doesn’t have even the slightest of devotional intention there is one school I won’t mention where where they take complete non-devotee kids and they have these non-devotee kids wake up every morning at 4 o’clock come for mangalarthi, do the full morning program and then have a full school throughout the day we will demonstrate how the process of bhakti can reform people now those kids they stay in the school for 6 months 1 year, 2 years but I found that practically when I talk with some of the kids and some of their teachers nobody leave alone becoming a devotee they actually become very resentful resentful because they feel we are forced to do this because they are not financially independent right now they are dependent on their parents and their parents force them to go there if some of them have some devotional inclination then that is good so devotion is something which has to be chosen it can never be imposed this sadhana bhakti involves force but it is voluntary force it is not external force externally if you force people to do bhakti they may do it for some time till we have some control over them but afterwards they will rebel and rebel violently they will become very averse so in that sense we may say coming to the temple we are going to purify them yes it is going to purify them if they want to be purified otherwise their exposure to Krishna may still purify them at a subconscious level but it is don’t we sometimes care for people’s future life so much that we don’t care at all for their present life it shouldn’t be like that we care for their present life and we care for their future life so we may be purifying people at a subconscious level by exposing them to Krishna but if at a conscious level we are making them averse then they are going to go away from Krishna and they will stay away from Krishna so sometimes a little bit force is required but it should not be compulsion it should not be compulsion that leads to aversion so for us if there is devotional intention a little devotional intention that is what will lead to purification and that purification is what leads to what is poison initially will become nectar eventually