How does guilt practically help increase our bhakti?

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of truthfulness yeah in a practical sense how do we differentiate between attachment, detachment, commitment see broadly there are areas we know that this is where I am attached to we all know our attachments and if we observe ourselves we also come to know about our aversions some people, some situations some places we have our aversions so if we observe ourselves we can come to know about our attachments and our aversions in broad contours and similarly we can also find out what is it in Bhakti that I am attracted to that I can connect with strongly and we try to develop some commitment for that so now once we have these broad contours clear then in the specifics we will not always be right that means sometimes we may veer towards detachment where instead of we may just be acting too much out of aversion or sometimes we may be acting too much out of attachment that will be we will learn by experience but broadly speaking if we have an overall understanding that these are the things which help me to move towards Krishna and I will keep doing these things sometimes I may just veer too much in this direction sometimes I may veer too much in that direction that is ok they say that when a plane is moving from I came from Mumbai to Orlando so when the plane is moving it is not that the plane goes in a straight line they say that almost for 95% of the plane time of the flight the plane is off track because there is wind pressure atmospheric conditions and all that the plane just keeps going off track but then the pilot keeps getting it on track back so because the pilot keeps getting the plane back on track that is how the plane eventually reaches its destination so like that because we have this, we have some attachments we have some aversions so they may make us go off course sometimes but if we are we have an overall understanding of where we want to go then we will understand this now I have gone off track, I have to come back so generally if we are an association of devotees and if we have some good devotee friends, they may tell us ok now we are going off in this direction or we also have an introspective nature then periodically maybe once in 15 days, once a month just look back and see how is my life going then ok this is, I have got too much into this basically quite often when we start going in excess in any direction the result is there is dissatisfaction, there is frustration there is resentment, there is stress negativity starts coming up too much when our connection with Krishna becomes weakened so when we start sensing that see the problem is I will conclude with this point, we can continue tomorrow see when material desires come up we often think that oh now I have to indulge or we think why are these material desires coming up but the material desires may not necessarily be indications that I have to indulge in some wrong way they may just be indications that my connection with Krishna has been cut, so whenever we start feeling our anathas rising in the practice of bhakti that can also be an indication that I am doing something wrong over here so then I do course correction and I come back so if we are introspective if we broadly understand our attachments our aversions and our commitments and we are introspective so that periodically we check out then we can always do course correction and come back on the right track so if you have any more questions, we will continue tomorrow thank you very much Shri Jai Gauranga Mahaprabhu Ki Jai Jai Shri Krishna so how do we understand