How can we be emotionally connected with Krishna without becoming sentimental?
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Hospitals here What does being emotionally connected With Krishna mean? Does it mean being sentimental and always crying For Krishna Does it mean being sahajiyaic No Emotionally connected with Krishna means That We Make Krishna The place where we Invest our emotions It’s not that In connection with Krishna we have to always express our emotions But We seek emotional fulfillment In Krishna Basically emotions are two parts When we say love, we offer our love to someone And we expect their love And when we get their love that means we feel happy We feel reciprocated So what we do In sahajiya The focus is not on investing their love in Krishna The focus is on simply Exhibiting their love for Krishna That is sentimentality So our focus is More on investing our love in Krishna And investing our Love in Krishna means Also that we Commit ourselves to Krishna See If a mother has a baby At that time The mother is not constantly Dancing around holding the baby in her hands Oh just see my baby Just see my baby She loves her baby But the primary way Her Love is By her tireless efforts To take care of that baby Isn’t it Especially when babies are young Mothers have to stay awake all night And then sometimes they are sick They have to take care of them Extremely tired So Krishna wakes up and cares for a crying baby Why is that Because that is the nature of love Which is manifesting Not simply as emotional exhibition Exhibitionism It is actually manifesting as Dedication, as commitment And of course during that commitment There will be emotional highs Sometimes the mother may just Feel a flood of love in her heart So like that There are times when we may go in front of the baby And we feel a flood of love in our hearts There are times when in kirtans We feel something very sweet and special That is good But that is not the emotional connection The emotional connection is Primary to commitment, to dedication We are dedicated to serving Krishna And within that also There may be certain manifestations of Krishna With which we become emotionally connected very quickly So for example some of us may like kirtans And not just kirtans There may be a specific mantra Or a specific bhajan A specific tune, a specific devotee singing Some of us may like darshan Of the deities Not just darshan, serving the deities Or whatever A specific dress, a specific way of decoration Specific deities, whatever it is There are some manifestations of Krishna With which we can connect quickly With which we become absorbed So those we can take shelter of more When our emotions start going away We can direct our emotions towards that Those manifestations That is emotionally connecting With specific manifestations Overall emotional connection is not exhibitionism It is dedication