How can we know whether our emotions are spiritual or sahajiyaic?
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what is the how do we differentiate between spiritual emotions and surgic emotions two main things one is the commitment to the practice of Bhakti and the result of those emotions that means in general the main characteristic of Surgism is that emotions are seen as independent and sufficient of themselves not requiring any commitment to the practice of purification because I experienced emotions so I have already achieved I don’t have to practice any process of purification or for that matter even after purified love is expressed in a certain way bhakti is expressed in a certain way that they don’t do so if we are practicing a committed process of purification then whatever emotions we experience we don’t have to be afraid of them that they are surgic they are authentic spiritual emotions they may not be sustainable because they are not yet purified but we don’t have to be afraid of emotions just because thinking that they are surgic so if they are committed in the practice of bhakti that’s good enough second thing is that the result of practicing those emotions of getting those emotions do we make that the center of our spiritual life in the sense that publicly advertising it I can do this I shed tears, I have this I have this mystical dream I have this vision men have those things but they they are the result of spiritual progress they are themselves not the cause of spiritual progress they can, as can a devotee get a dream about Krishna who are you to stop Krishna from coming in our dream isn’t it but the point is what will define our spiritual advancement is not whether Krishna comes in our dream or not what will define our spiritual advancement is what we do after waking up laughter laughter laughter so if somehow we feel that Krishna came in our dream, fine we don’t have to go about telling the world about it laughter we can tell a few devotees who are very close to us we focus on doing what we are meant to do in Krishna sense so if we are careful that we are committedly practicing process of bhakti and we don’t use whatever spiritual emotions we have got to gather attention gain fame, name and fame in bhakti community but when we see that Krishna is so kind that he is he is giving us some special mercy in this way let me reciprocate by becoming more devoted to him more committed to serving him then those emotions will actually inspire us to move forward, faster towards him laughter small question