How can we know which things increase our doubt and which increase our faith?

From Anjan

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any other question? Hare Krishna question from Anjan Bachu how do we know which activities increase our doubts and which activities increase our faith? answer by the fruit when we mix with certain people who are anti devotional then they may spread rumors spread malicious lies or they may talk things which erode our faith and after that we start feeling discouraged am I doing the right thing? should I be practicing bhakti? are devotees like this? essentially if after associating with someone or after reading something or after doing some activity we become disheartened in the practice of bhakti then we see that that is an activity which is causing doubts to us so especially if we become intellectually disheartened that means our intellectual conviction becomes weakened and we can no longer use our intelligence to push ourselves onward in our practice of bhakti then we can see that these are the activities that cause doubts in us and conversely if by doing certain activities we feel more intellectually convinced and our determination gets a strong intellectual push then we can see these are activities that strengthen my faith if I study scripture and I hear some classes or read some articles, read some books and then based on that my understanding becomes clearer and my conviction becomes stronger then we can see those are activities so then after this our enthusiasm for practicing bhakti increases so we can evaluate which activities damage our faith and which activities strengthen our faith based on whether they after doing those activities we feel more enthused in our bhakti or we feel disenthused in our bhakti thank you