How does one’s past spirituality become activated?
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how does the switch inside get activated it’s a it’s a mystery my my mystery I mean not not saying mystery in the sense that can’t understand it but let’s look at a few examples in Shastra Bruthrasur is fighting against Indra and it’s amazing he is so angry he says Indra you are you are the killer of your you are the killer of your brother you are the killer of a brahmana you are killer of a of your guru and you deserve to die and he says I will kill you and I will offer I will satisfy my brother with your blood which is going on angry expression and suddenly at one particular moment if however you kill me in this battle today then I will offer this body to Narayana and I will attain transcendence and then immediately after that he starts off and all his prayers are pure devotional so till that point till one point it’s like the prayers are all like the statements they are not prayers at all they are like a warriors exhortations for fighting one moment it changes and it’s something different entirely so what’s happening over there it’s that he comes there and completely it’s there is no indication in the Bruthrasur past time that Bruthrasur in his normal conduct till then is remember that he was Chitraketu in his previous life see what happens even if we have some spiritual impressions see somebody has a has a somebody has a very great couple is a very great devotee and they have a child and the child also is a very spiritually evolved soul but no matter how evolved the child may be as a soul when the child comes from the womb the child is not going to say Hare Krishna the child will cry so to a particular point we function according to the body to a particular point but at certain situations certain junctures the body’s pushes are transcended by the soul’s soul’s previous spirituality getting activated so now when that is why the switch is turning on when it will happen now here is the case of Bruthrasur he just comes to fight with Indra and when his soldiers go away he starts chastising them what cowards are you come and fight but then he sees the weapon of Vishnu the weapon has been blessed by Vishnu that what is that Vishnuastra he sees that this I can’t believe this and see that Vishnuastra stimulates the spiritual memory so that switch opens over there now in the case of Gajendra in the case of Gajendra it is when he recognizes his powerlessness that’s when the switch opens for him so that switch can open for us at different situations now for at one level because we are all practicing Bhakti so the switch is open for us but it’s not like you could say at one level it’s like a digital switch so it’s like an analog switch so sometimes the switch is fully open sometimes it is slightly open so for us it’s not completely off now but the it’s dim so it has become on but after on it’s dim or it’s full it varies