How can we know whether we are using our intelligence in Krishna’s service or are just enjoying Krishna consciousness intellectually?

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Krishna question what is the way to know whether we are actually using our intelligence in Krishna’s service or whether we are simply enjoying Krishna consciousness at the intellectual level answer first of all at the sadhaka stage we don’t have to get into paralysis by analysis by worrying too much about this one of the most important principles at the sadhaka stage is somehow or the other fix the mind in Krishna therefore whatever we do the important thing is to fix the mind in Krishna and even if it is largely at the intellectual level it doesn’t matter so we work at the intellectual level and from there we try to rise upwards to the spiritual level so as long as we are doing our sadhana and we are following the principles of bhakti that will ensure that we will move upwards and we will rise to the spiritual level so specifically if doing devotional activities means doing activities like hearing, chanting, worshipping the deity seems to be a burden and our taste for that does not increase over a period of time and we constantly focus on just new intellectually titillating information and basically the quality of our desires is not transforming we are not really feeling an increase in our attraction to Krishna so dharma swamisthita pumsa vishwaksena kathasurya na utpada yadagirthim shrame vahikebu the bhagatam says that whatever dharma we are doing, swamisthita, according to our nature so if we have a tendency to delight in intellectual things that’s ok, swamisthita pumsa so we act accordingly and if that does not lead to an increase in our attraction to Krishna then that means that what we are doing we will have to take a second look at that so now of course it won’t be exactly a waste of time because this is talking primarily about dharma which is not connected with Krishna that is shrame vahikebu now in our case it is connected with Krishna whatever we are doing, certainly if you are studying Shastra it is connected with Krishna but we need to do it better we need to intensify our devotional intention by associating with devotees who have the devotional intention and especially by associating with devotees who because we have intellectual nature then naturally we will feel kinship with devotees also who are, other devotees have intellectual nature and when we feel that kinship we can look there may be few but those devotees intellectual who also have an intense desire to serve Krishna to go closer to Krishna and who we can see are using their intellect not just to delight at the intellectual level but to use the intellect to go closer to Krishna by associating with those devotees and by keeping our sadhana strong by trying consciously to cultivate the desire to go closer to Krishna we will ensure that gradually we will rise from the level of intellectually enjoying Krishna consciousness to using the intellect to give enjoyment to Krishna and thereby going closer to Krishna thank you and then getting spiritual enjoyment thereby thank you