Shouldn’t we take up challenging services to become humble & dependent on Krishna?

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isn’t it that we should take up Chinese services so that we feel humble and we feel dependent on Krishna yes that’s true definitely but then there are challenges which stimulate us and there are challenges that agitate us so yesterday I spoke about what a varnashra means people are allocated the problems that they like to face so in the same concept of challenging when they talk about three zones the comfort zone the stretch zone and then the panic zone so for example if I can lift 10 kg weight then everyday I just keep lifting 5 kg my muscles will never grow so if I can lift 10 kg and if I am lifting 5 kg that is I am in the comfort zone if I can lift 10 kg and I am lifting 10.5 or 11 that is I am in the stretch zone but if I can lift 10 kg and if I am lifting 25 kg that’s panic zone so basically we definitely need challenges for growth but we also have to take challenges that actually help us to grow that just don’t crush us by how difficult they are so as a matter of surrender if the situation demands if our authorities tell us we can do services which are necessary at a particular time but along with that we also take the responsibility of finding out how can I engage myself the point which I was making yesterday is that there is aspect of following instruction and surrender which is very important but the practical reality at the moment is that it’s not that we will always be having authority with us constantly telling us don’t do this don’t do this we will have to become self motivated to be able to sustain a service and we cannot be self motivated in sustaining a service unless we have some inspiration so there are challenges which if we are good at something even within that to do something good there are challenges lets say somebody is a very good singer now they like to sing but even then when they want to improve their singing they spend hours practicing say I like to write so writing it is said that the more you write the more difficult writing becomes why? because the more you write the more you realize how many faults are there in your writing and then correcting all of it takes time so whatever service we are doing whatever service we are gifted to do or whatever we are inspired to do even within that there can be challenges and we can grow within that also so definitely we need challenges but we need challenges that actually help us to grow and yes we need to be humble we need to be dependent on Krishna so sometimes doing something which we are not good at that may help us realize I am not the one so that may help us to become humble and that we can do it that way but that will not be a service which is sustained lifelong and the dependence on Krishna comes when you take up a challenge within something which you are inspired to do and you feel it so the two are not necessarily contradictory they can be complementary do something which you are inspired to do and within that stretching ourselves so that we get we feel the need for Krishna did I answer your question? yes any other questions?