What is the source of desire?

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mantra can free us from all sinful reactions and surely during our course of our chanting 16 rounds but there are at least a few mantras we do which we do chant purely so why does the effect not come about the two different things over here first is there are scriptural promises which reflect the heart of god krishna is very compassionate and he wants us to come to him scriptural promises express his heart you just do this much you know i’ll provide you everything that’s one thing and at the same time the heart the relationship between if somebody approaches with the heart we have to reciprocate with the heart you know if a boy says i love this girl and a parent say you know give me a mathematical analysis why you love this girl you can’t do that matters of the heart cannot be approached with the head so like that when scripture gives promises then those are expressions of krishna’s heart if we approach them with a with the analytical head with the mathematical approach krishna has chanted so many mantras therefore now i should be liberated no there is not you know yet they’re happening over we what we if we see in the past time of ajamil when the conclusion is there at that time what is shukadeva swami’s conclusion as well as bhopa’s conclusion it is not that oh see ajamil was saved although he was so sinful therefore we can also be sinful and but if we just chant one name we’ll be saved now that is not the conclusion that they are again the conclusion they give is that see ajamil chanted just once the name of narayan and that also he chanted unintentionally he was referring to someone else his own son but even by that he was delivered so if we chant thinking of krishna and we chant regularly will the holy name not deliver us surely it will deliver us so when we see krishna’s compassion manifested through scriptural promises we should reciprocate with intensification of devotion not increase of expectation not that i chant just this much and everything will happen but ultimately it’s a matter of relationship it’s not purification it’s not just okay the desires go away that’s fine but more important than the worldly desire going away is spiritual desire being awakened and that is awakened by sustained contact with krishna so in general scriptural promises they when i say their expression of krishna’s compassion that does not mean that they’re exaggerations see they are what it means is that this is the extent to which krishna can go out of his love for us but that does not mean that we by our love we demand this from krishna at every time so krishna can even do up to this much things to elevate souls but the important thing is what will purify us what will redirect our love is the steady is the steady practice of bhakti so we should feel we should when you see this compassion krishna we feel more inspired to devote ourselves to krishna to krishna in a selfless mode as much as possible with a not selfless in a with a wholehearted mode yes this will lead to purification and there are certainties even the scriptural promises see ajami did not get liberated by chanting once he was saved from sinful reactions and afterwards he would rigorous sadhana and then he became purified so there is aparadhanam there is namabhas and there is chuddhanam so many of the promises of eternal existence of return to the spiritual world of eternal love of krishna they relate with chuddhanam at present at best our chanting will be namabhas that is this clearing stage so namabhas can lead to purification but there is liberation beyond purification is liberation beyond liberation is love for krishna that requires a conscious redirection of our heart so it’s like can you give me three examples suppose somebody’s shooting and you’re having a gun and a shooting but in the gun there is no gun power then externally sound is coming but not much is happening enemies are going to be fall because of that so if we don’t put our heart in chanting that is like just pressing the trigger but the thing is even that kind of chanting can also dissipate on our thoughts to some extent but not much but then on top of that if somebody has gunpowder or bullets in the gun and then that person shoots that as forward but even with that one has to shoot the target if one is shooting with a proper gun but if i’m not shooting at the shooting at the target then again the hit will not come like somebody says that oh you just shoot once you’ll get an olympic gold medal yes you shoot once you get an olympic gold medal but to shoot once like that people have to practice shooting millions of times before that so like that to chant once with pure love of krishna we uh or at least the pure the desire for pure love krishna we need to chant previously and all the previous chanting you know that when the when you say the olympic gold medalist sharpshooter that person decides to shoot once before that also all the millions of shots have to be done carefully taking as much accuracy as possible similarly we chant if we are that person is shooting millions of times here and there an olympic gold will not hit the target so like that if you are thinking of hundreds of other things and chanting then we are not really hitting the target we are not purifying ourselves so we just focus we use the scriptural promises not to raise our expectations about the fruit of bhakti but to increase our motivation to practice the process of bhakti that way we reciprocate with krishna’s compassionate heart with our repentant spiritually desirous heart and then that heart-to-heart connection will lead to elevation is the answer thank you very much