How can we keep our spiritual intentions strong?

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so how can we keep our intentions strong, there is basically conviction and association, conviction is what comes with philosophy, it is intellectual, so basically people say, although the contaminations are there in senses, mind and intelligence, they are primarily in the mind, the mind is often the reservoir, the primary agent of illusion, for all practical purposes, we could say that maya is equal to the mind, for all practical purposes, philosophically maya is a being, but practically maya is equal to the mind, so basically when we have to counter the sabotaging of our intention that is going to happen, that they have to launch an attack on the mind, so there is a two-pronged attack, it is internally with the intelligence, externally through association, so with the intelligence, what happens is, when we study the philosophy, when we hear the past tense of Krishna, then we start understanding that this is actually the idea, Chetan Chetan would say that, I don’t think this is because of his philosophy, I don’t understand, I just want to pass, I don’t know, so by siddhanta what happens, we have to take krishna ravis into the mind, but our mind becomes too much because we understand, krishna is the reality, krishna is every source of happiness, everything else is temporary, so the interconniction by regular study of philosophy that helps us to solidify our intention and along with that, that is association so usually our desires we think of desires as linear that means I see a particular object and I get excited I see a nice delicacy and I want to eat it so yes desires are linear but desires are not just linear they are also triangular triangular means that say some new phone has come up now there are so many new phones which have come up but there is some D.I some movie star, some sports star who endorses that phone say I am using this phone, this is so nice then people go and trust it so what has happened seeing the phone itself did not trigger the desire but seeing somebody who was using that phone triggered it so our desires are not just linear they are also triangular triangular means when you see somebody else using that activity people inspire to do that activity or when you see somebody else enjoying that object you desire to enjoy that object and this triangularity of desires is especially important in bhakti because the object to which we are attracted in bhakti that may not always appear attractive to our senses sense objects they naturally appear attractive to senses but say Einstein Bhagwati how many people just by seeing Bhagwati they get irresistible desire to touch the Bhagwati not many but if you associate with somebody who is delighting in the Bhagwati you associate somebody who is delighting in the Bhagwati I didn’t know this point I didn’t know there is so much taste of it so what happens by associating with them, we intake desire we come to a temple and there is gunnu always people go to the temple but there is somebody almost completely absorbed lost I want to taste it I close my eyes and try to absorb so it is the association with devotees that triggers spiritual desire and that’s why association is also not physical proximity if you just associate with devotees and discuss mundane things or if you associate with devotees and criticize other devotees then that is not association association essentially means the transfer of desires we are associating with devotees when devotional desires are being transferred from one devotee to another otherwise even the association of devotees may just be mundane association so why and of course in association there is not just the transfer of desire, there is also action we engage in service so in terms of there is intention internal there is conviction internal and there is association external these two, they solidify intention and also just by doing the service by doing the service there is purification that happens by connection with Krishna and that is substandard purification just keep doing the service अतजित्तं समाधातिः शुक्णोस्यनस्तिरम् अभ्याजी ओपियर्तो मां इच्छा पणिनंदे if your mind does not want to get back to to me, it’s trying to fix the non-religiousness and by doing this मां इच्छा पणिनंदे desire for you will come so just by consistently doing service also the intention becomes strong so if you just keep, keep reading dharma to the lord, keep preaching keep doing this gradually and it just becomes a part of our nature and natural behavior so by conviction, by association and just by repetition by these three things you can strengthen our relationship thank you very much मद्राश्यन्भावतिः शुक्णोस्यनस्तिरम् अभ्याजी ओपियर्तो मां इच्छा पणिनंदे