How can one maintain a devotional attitude while cultivating a lot of knowledge?

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so this required lot of study and I really appreciate it but then in Bhagavad Gita Sulapapada mentioned that we have to learn the spirit of devotion so when we are going for this much knowledge so how we can maintain the spirit of devotion at the same time see it will all depend on so do we do we need so much study so much knowledge and if we study so much how do we maintain the spirit of devotion essentially different people have different natures and we have to use our nature in Krishna sense so it’s not that if somebody doesn’t have intellectual nature that person has to get so much knowledge like we may see somebody who sings with such exquisite expertise that they sing such tunes and we can’t even follow it and we wonder is this so much required it’s not required but if somebody has that nature we can’t stop that person from utilizing that nature so and there will be a certain class of people it can be but it’s not necessary to transform it for example if somebody says I’m lusty I’m greedy I’m angry that has to be transformed if somebody has an intellectual nature somebody has a musical attraction that doesn’t need to be transformed that has to be utilized Krishna says so it’s a matter of utilizing the talents that we have these are not necessary talents for the practice of devotional service but if somebody has these talents we can’t tell people to suppress their talents they have to utilize them so some people have managerial talents and then they may make the systems of management so painstaking everything systematically accounted for I can’t do this those who have the talent to do that we can’t stop them from doing that and that is going to help attract a certain class of people same way it’s not necessary for us to we have certain talents we should utilize them but we shouldn’t think that the absence of those talents is a disqualification for the practice of bhakti so now every individual who has certain talents will have to take the necessary precautions by which while pursuing that talent one can maintain one’s bhakti also so that is if one person doesn’t have that much talent and if one tries to do that then pursuing that will become prayas if somebody doesn’t have musical talent and tries very hard to learn musical skills then learning that musical skills becomes such a mental and intellectual effort that distracts one from the practice of bhakti and then it will become prayas on the other hand if somebody has that talent then when the person utilizes that talent that person gets some satisfaction in bhakti and the person not utilizing that talent that person will feel I am not doing anything worthwhile in my life I want to do something challenging so everybody needs something challenging therefore individually by one’s own sadhana by one’s own philosophical understanding by the guidance of the devotees one actually can balance utilizing one’s own talents and maintaining the spirit of devotion it is not that two are exclusive both can be balanced together and that would require some careful understanding and prioritization and balance in