During our sadhana why is focusing important for getting results ?

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So, how important is the focus during our sadhana for us to get the rewards? See, basically it is our consciousness which has to be available for the fresh impressions to be formed. If we are sleeping and the consciousness itself is not there, then what happens is that fresh impressions are not formed. Like the mother is giving medicine to the child, but the child doesn’t want to take the medicine, the child just goes to the bowl or the child keeps shaking the head.

If the child keeps shaking the head, the mother’s giving the medicine is not just a ritual or you know, I put two spoons. If the two spoons go inside the belly, that’s the important thing. It’s not just giving the two spoons.

So, if our consciousness is not there, then also some effect will be there. Because it’s not that it’s zero. The child is shaking his head, I don’t want to drink, I don’t want to drink.

But then suddenly the mother tries to hold it and what happens, the child is drinking and saying no, no, no, I don’t want to drink. And somehow a little bit taste goes and then, hey, I feel better. No, no, no.

I want to drink. It will become like that. So, broadly speaking, the impressions that are formed inside us, the impressions, we want to make ourselves mentally fit.

So, we want to become fitter, like I talked about muscles improving. So, to become fit, there are three factors that matter. The frequency, how often we do something, the intensity, how much are we involved in doing that thing and how long do we do that thing.

The frequency, intensity and time duration, these three determine how much the samskaras are changed inside us. So, I was visiting a city in America, so I’m reconnecting with many of my school and college friends. So, one college friend said, no, I literally go to the Iskcon Temple.

It is a small temple over there. So, almost everybody knows everyone over there on a very large school. So, I asked the community leader who was hosting me, have you seen it? He said, no, I’ve never seen it.

So, I asked him, okay, you come regularly. How regularly do you come up with that? He says, I come every year in March to me without me. Now, it’s good.

He’s coming every year in March to me. But if it’s that occasional, it’s not really going to create any deep impressions in the mind. So, frequency.

So, how often do we do it? How much are we involved in doing it? Like if you’re absent-minded, then the impressions won’t be formed. And how long do we do it? So, the more quality time we spend, like in the browser, that’s why there’s a difference between the mind and the browser. The browser doesn’t really care after you open the window whether you watch the window out.

It’s that you can keep the window open only. And you might go away from your screen and do it somewhere else. But the browser will store it and revisit it with that particular website.

But with our mind, the impressions that are formed depend on how much are we involved in it. How much are we in use? That’s why if we can increase the frequency, we can increase the intensity, we can increase the time duration. That is very helpful.

So, many times when you go for yatras, or you go for youth retreats, you go for camps, you’ll find that that will give a lot more spiritual energy than just coming for a weekly program. Why? Because there, the time duration becomes more. It’s not just a couple of hours a week.

It’s two, three days fully or immersively also. And then everybody around is spiritual. So, the intensity also becomes more.

So, in that way, we can see if we want to faster purify ourselves, see what we can do more. Can we increase the frequency? Can we increase the intensity? Can we increase the time duration?