How can we increase our tolerance to temptations?

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the process. Thank you. External or stifled to indulging in temptation.
Not having the temptation, easily available to indulge in it. That itself is a positive. तस्मात्तों विव्यानियादों न्यांत्याभवेतर्ष्य। Krishna says in 3.41, he talks first of all about the विव्यानियादों, regulating the senses.
Regulating the senses means, now one important aspect of regulating the senses is that don’t keep sense getting easily available. In America, now people have ready access to guns. It’s a complex issue, gun laws.
But the problem, one problem is that when people have access to guns, somebody gets angry and shoots something. So, what happens is, if we have ways in which we can stop the temptation of easily available, then it’s much more difficult to resist. So, that’s the first thing.
Second thing is, in general, it’s something which we can learn from experience. When a firefighter goes for the first time, or the big fire is there, at that time, if a civilian is there, civilian will see the fire. Oh, it’s not panicking anymore.
Because it’s not ready to go. But then, if a new tire of a firefighter is there, a firefighter goes there with the hose, he drops the hose, panics. But then, over a period of time, I have the dream in front of me.
Then when the fire comes, let’s put water on it. Let’s put water on it. Then it works in a coordinated way, creatively.
And the difference between a new firefighter and an experienced firefighter is, the reflex time becomes lesser and lesser. The reflex time, what to do, becomes so ingrained. And whenever the fire comes, okay, okay, okay.
If we attack the fire on this side, it’s the best way to stop the fire. Do this, do this, do this. You know.
So like that, last is the fire that burns in our heart. bhushbu re anale, bhushbu re anale, anale means fire, bhushbu re means fire. So when the fire of lust burns in our heart, what happens is we become bad.
Now the desire has come, now what can I do, I’ll have to do something. No, we don’t have to suffer. So as we make spiritual advancement, our reflex actions will become faster.
Our spiritual reflexes will become sharper. And they will say, no, we don’t have to suffer. Let me study some scripture.
Or what we can do is, we can find out some passages from scriptures which talk about the nature of lust. Something which is very, you can hear some point in some lecture, it’s a very immediate point for us. So hide it somewhere in your pocket, I don’t know where it is.
Repeat it. Repeat the words, repeat the sentence. And then pretend to know it.
So we can find out what will work as a fire extinguisher. There are two things in this. First is, I should have a fire extinguisher and I should use the fire extinguisher.
So both are required. So we have to be equal, and we have to be great. So we can individually find out what acts as a fire extinguisher.
The holy men, in general, can act. But what happens is, when the temptation comes, we use the desire to take shelter of the holy men. And put it aside.
So no need to jump. So in that time, we don’t need to use our intelligence. Say some scripture passage, you remember.
Like that will help us. So each of us can find out what will be our fire extinguisher. And then we train ourselves to use it.
So that way, over a period of time, our tolerance will increase. So tolerance is essentially a matter of spiritual reflexes. So the more we contemplate and plan, contemplate on this gratification, contemplate on how we focus on gratification, and plan how to get rid of it, gradually our reflexes will become stronger.
Certainly we integrate in Krishna and seek his help. And the help we need will not just that overnight the temptation will go away. But we will use the intelligence to deal with the temptation.
And to the extent we deal with the temptation, to that extent it is okay. If you are not interested in this, then I will not help you with this. And over a period of time, we will be able to concentrate.