If we feel more devotionally connected with Krishna while hearing than while taking darshan what should we do?

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so if we feel more devotionally connected with Krishna when we are hearing classes but not so much when we go in front of the deities so what can we do all of us have our own natures and for some of us you know thoughts have to precede feelings and for some of us you know feelings come first thoughts come later it’s just the way we are made so for me also I found that if I just go in front of the deities I don’t feel any bhakti over there but if I recite some verses if I have some structure basically it’s not just reciting the verses what I see verses as a ready made template for thinking about Krishna when I say think about Krishna what do you think about but if you have a verse which is describing Krishna’s beauty, describing Krishna’s quality describing Krishna’s merciful interventions and devotee’s life that uses an intellectual template by which we can direct our thoughts towards Krishna and then when we with that template go in front of the deities or we use that to connect with the deities then we can start feeling the devotional connection, devotional emotion so some of us may have more of a visual intelligence some of us may have more of a verbal intelligence so those who have more visual intelligence when they see the deities then they feel the devotion much more some of us may have more of a verbal intelligence or analytical intelligence then we need some kind of stimulation for the intelligence before we can before that devotion gets triggered see that is the nature, that is our nature that’s not an efficiency, that’s just the way we are then we can plan in advance so for example if we hear some classes some points in the class makes us feel very well connected with Krishna then we can actually use that point or note that point somewhere in a book or just remember that and then plan to use that point as a starting point for our prayer to Krishna so that will sometimes I used to try to memorize a verse every day, too lazy now, I don’t do that but I used to memorize a verse every day and every day when we go for darshan I have to recollect that verse and recite that verse so that is the offering to the lord on that day so sometimes I just do there is a Gauranga Shatanaam, 108 names of lord Chaitanya so or there is Krishna Sahasrana, Krishna Shatanaam is there so like that maybe just take one one name of Krishna contemplate a little bit on that and then recite that when we go in front of the deities so basically we need to stimulate our consciousness so that it gets connected with Krishna now how exactly to stimulate the consciousness that will vary from person to person so whatever it takes we do that