Don’t fight against your bad habits – cultivate good habits and let them fight against bad habits

Don't try to fight against your bad habits cultivate good habits and let them fight against bad habits when we have some bad habits we often strive to give them give them up if you fail repeatedly you may become disheartened and quit why is giving up bad habits so difficult? because why is giving up any bad habits so difficult? because because that habit is like a heavily armed enemy and we are like a unarmed defender just like a weapon can pierce far sharper than bare hands can resist our habits can penetrate into our consciousness far faster than our raw determination can resist to improve our odds we need to arm ourselves how? by cultivating a good habit when we are habituated to something we can easily get absorbed in it and when you are absorbed in one thing neglecting or rejecting something else becomes much easier the Bhagavad Gita recommends habit replacement over habit resistance that means rather than resisting a bad habit we replace it with a better habit first it cautions that even the discerning and endeavoring can be dragged to sensuality by the wild senses then it urges us to use whatever sense control we have to focus on the all attractive ultimate reality Krishna let's do 260 and 260 and 260 is yadato yapi kaunteya purushasya vipashchita indriyani kamathini haranti pasavammana 261 is tani sarvani sainghamya yuktaasita matparha vashe yasya indriyani tasya prajna pratishtata so when we develop the good habit of connecting with Krishna we arm ourselves with the weapon of absorption in him that weapon can act both as a shield and a sword as a shield it defends us whenever temptation thrusts itself into our consciousness by absorbing Krishna we don't feel so much the torment of temptation and it also acts as a sword for it can equip us to drive temptation out of our inner world by filling our consciousness with Krishna well the strategy of habit replacement can work when we develop any good habit a devotional good habit is most empowering because it connects us with the all pure, all powerful all pleasurable Krishna by that divine connection replacing driving the negative habit out becomes much easier and faster thank you.