Is adopting something because it works a sufficient criterion for choosing a spiritual path?

Anwser Podcast

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so when we surrender the intelligence saying that this works for me so what it is actually I don’t understand but because it works I will do it but by this way some people may surrender to some some teachers who are actually who are frauds or who cheat them so how do we check this see there is if you look at the broad philosophy of Krishna consciousness there are huge parts of it which make very wonderful sense and not only the philosophy makes sense, the philosophy helps us to make sense of life the philosophy helps us to make sense of the world around us so in many ways a large portion it is shines through with profound reason and wisdom but there are some aspects of it which may not be, may not seem to be so reasonable, which seem to be difficult for us to understand but most of it as far as the fundamental questions are concerned about our identity, our activity our destiny now for us from our practical perspective you know I do seminar on science and spirituality so the usually the way I differentiate is science can help us to make things better spirituality helps us to make ourselves better if I am short tempered, there is no pill provided by the scientist, you pop the pill your temper goes away nobody can do like that but by chanting like Krishna, by practicing bhakti our anarthas of anger, of greed of lust, they go down so when we talk about the utilitarian way of approaching things yes, science works in some fields but as far as answering the fundamental questions of life, the scientist doesn’t address the fundamental questions you know, where did I come from what is right, what is wrong what is the ultimate purpose of life so these are who am I or what is my identity, what am I meant to do and what is the ultimate purpose of my life these questions these are very wonderfully answered by the Krishna conscious philosophy and many other spiritual or semi-spiritual pseudo-spiritual ideas that may be there they don’t really address these questions very well most people’s version of spiritual practices today is that they see spirituality as a shock absorber for their material life I’m facing problems in my material life and I do some meditation I do something by which I cool down and then I pursue my material life so it’s it really doesn’t offer them a higher vision or ultimate purpose of life so as far as fundamental questions of identity, activity destiny, Krishna conscious philosophy is profoundly coherent with respect to some details, there may be something which you don’t understand so if the fundamental issues of life are well addressed then we are not being utilitarian actually we are very much concerned about the nature of reality when it comes to central questions of life but with respect to some specific aspects we adopt a functional approach okay, this is what I need to do I will understand it as much as I can so that I know I’m in my right am I addressing your question? or was your question something else? I guess I’m thinking more like concise, like somebody somebody might be like there are respective scriptures how it answers the basic, most fundamental questions of life, but then in regards to amongst the scriptures, like okay, well, this meditation really works for me, I feel like my life has improved from it the four rags, I’ll take two out of three and oh, I actually like this scripture because it’s already working for me so in regards to a broader sense, like scientific literature is good for material things and scriptures of the thought in that really broad sense, I’m on the same page