Is the initial poison in spiritual life same for everyone?

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so the initial poison that is experienced in spiritual life, is it same for everyone or is it different? no, it depends on one’s conditionings it depends on one’s nature it depends on one’s circumstance lot of factors come in for example if I have an intellectual nature then in studying scripture I may find very little poison I like to study and I study scripture also it’s not necessarily so if I have an intellectual nature that intellectual nature might also mean a sceptical nature and then I study scripture I read scripture but I get a lot of doubts also which others don’t get so it’s not necessarily always a blessing but depending on our particular situation there are certain activities which will be naturally relishable for us if somebody already had an interest in music and singing and they come to bhakti for them there will be very little poison in kirtans the poison may be when others don’t sing well but for themselves if they are singing they can easily connect themselves so it’s our own nature our own conditionings so because of certain conditionings we may just not be able to do certain activities so for some people say if they have a little unhealthy body sitting on the floor that may be very difficult and then if they try too much to do that better sit on a chair and whatever is required and continue practicing that may be too difficult certain physical activities may be too difficult because of our own body-mind conditioning and a lot depends on association also that inspiration to move forward through that poison that comes through association like initially say if we decided to go for Harinam kirtan now we may think how can I go and dance on the streets what will people think when we come to the temple we may have a lot of apprehension there may be that poison but then all other devotees around us they are enthusiastically dancing and singing and we say they are all blissful the world is not falling around we may also start dancing and singing so our association determines also how much we feel that poison because this joy is also contagious so if we are associating with the devotees who have taste in a particular thing then by their association also we get taste so basically our nature our conditioning and our association they determine how much will be the poison that we experience and usually we should find out that activity where we have the least poison and at least commit ourselves to that and then we can move forward and do other activities also any other questions?