How can we be inspired when we don’t get much association of senior devotees?

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How can we Get more association of senior devotees Or if we don’t get much association of senior devotees And we have mostly our equals How can we maintain our inspiration When we don’t get much association Of those who inspire us Association is not just in terms of Time It’s in terms of Transfer of desires So if we associate With those who inspire us Even if it’s intermitted association But it can carry that inspiration with us And nowadays we can hear Classes anywhere And we can make notes And refer to those notes That way we can inspire us Association ultimately depends on our initiative So if we are very inspired by senior devotees Then we can find out some way in which we can Serve that devotee more We assist that devotee in their services Usually The best way to get Association of some devotees is to assist in their services Then That way we can get their association much more And that way we can move on But even if there is not much association We shouldn’t become discouraged By the fact that Okay, I associated, I got inspiration Then The inspiration has gone That’s natural, see The inspiration is like energy So It is just like I ate food today I got a lot of energy But I don’t lament that tomorrow morning I don’t have the energy It’s natural the energy will go away But tomorrow morning I will eat again So it is not Unnatural That the inspiration will decline over time That’s the natural way things are Because energy when it is expended It is lost But every time We assimilate the energy and Expand the energy It’s not just a loss There is also the building of the body that happens Even physically We eat food, we get energy We expend the energy The energy goes away But in that process if you are doing it regularly Slowly the body is getting build up Muscles are growing But still it is not just the growth of the muscles Can at any time Substitute the input of energy further It is not that one day My muscles will grow so much that I can stop eating And still I will have a lot of energy So we always have to Take in energy And we need association of devotees So If we find certain association very inspiring Then we should orient our life in such a way We can get that association And as far as Not getting much association of seniors That is true for everyone Even during Prabhupada’s time How many of them got Prabhupada’s association so much Only in the early days they got Prabhupada’s association Later on most of the inspiration came from Prabhupada’s disciples only Senior Prabhupada’s disciples They did not get so much Prabhupada’s association So We do In one sense when we associate with our equals Although they may not Inspire us in the same way as our seniors But they can Inspire us in a different way Because sometimes when we associate with seniors The mind is so devilish That it can misinterpret it in whichever way you want Now if you associate with senior devotees You may think they are so advanced They don’t have the struggles that I have So I can’t be like them So yes I will admire them And that’s all that it is But when we associate with our equals Then we see they are also going through struggles which I am going through And yet they are persevering Or if we see sometimes they Commit mistakes and fall we can learn from that also This is not what I should not be doing So we have to Learn To Make Whatever circumstance that is there is Anukul to us See bhakti means Anukullese sankal prathikullese varjanam That is Sharanagathi So one is if there is some association that inspires us We should try to get that more and more But apart from that whatever association is there We have to make it anukul for ourselves That means we Approach that association in a way that will inspire us And then we can move onward steadily Does this answer your question?