How can we increase our attraction to reading Prabhupada’s books?

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So how to get more attracted to reading Prabhupada’s books? Generally, our desire, any desire, it is not linear.
It is triangular. What do you mean by triangular desire? Suppose, say, a new, you are drawing, okay, nice. So, suppose a new video game comes in.
Say, a few months ago, there was this video game. Have you heard of Pokemon Go? So, when that Pokemon Go first came, the people thought, okay, what is this Pokemon Go? Some new, there are so many video games. Now, a new game has come.
But then, say, some kids are just playing it. Some people are just, you know, trying to walk here, go there, catch, imagine a Pokemon, catch a Pokemon here. Maybe he is behind this tree, he is in this ground, he is in this garden, wherever it is.
So, when people get totally caught in watching this, when playing this Pokemon Go, then somebody else who also, who is, what is this game? I am not interested. But they say, what is this person so interested? Then the second person also starts playing. Starts playing, hey, he is caught in it.
The first person says, hey, enough now. No, I want to play. So, what has happened? That means, the Pokemon Go game was here.
This person was here. But initially, this person did not get much desire for the game. Okay, there are so many video games.
Now, a new game has come. One more game is there. So, what is the big deal? But when he saw somebody playing the Pokemon Go, so, he is here, the game is here and the second person is here.
And when he saw the second person having so much interest in the game, having so much attraction to the game, then what happened? Seeing that person’s desire created his desire. So, like that, the desire was not, did not come just by seeing the game. It came by seeing others playing the game.
So, similarly, especially in spiritual things, our desires don’t grow linearly. They grow triangularly. Just if I sit with the Prabhupada book, okay, I read this before.
Okay, I read it. But we don’t feel so attracted. But if we associate with someone who has great eagerness to read, maybe it’s our friend, maybe it’s some senior devotee, whoever it is.
If they are very interested in studying scripture and they teach, then they speak on scripture and they say, oh, this is so interesting. I never thought like this. So, try to find out some friends, even one friend if it is there, who is there, who also likes to study.
And then whenever you meet, you can tell, hey, you know, I read this point. And then say, I’ll read this point. And then like that, when both of you meet each other, then it will become interesting.
So, even if you meet that friend once a day, if you meet him in school, you decide every day, I’ll read at least one page. And I’ll tell my friend what I read from that page. And that friend will tell me what I read from, what he read from that page.
So, that way, that both being together, that will create the desire. So, the easiest way to have a strong spiritual desire is by association. Sangat sanjayate gama.
By association, desire develops. Therefore, the best way to get desire, first in the Prabhupada’s books is by not just reading them ourselves, but by reading them with someone who has interest in them. And even if somebody doesn’t seem to have interest right now, they’re not reading it also, we read it and we speak with someone.
That way, they’ll get interested. When they get interested, sometimes our interest goes down, they will interest us. So, basically, try to find just even one friend who likes to study and share with them.
By that,