When bhakti provides higher pleasure than sensuality, why does the mind still crave for sense pleasure?

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So when the mind knows that bhakti will provide The highest happiness Why is the mind still attracted to material things This is the first question The mind is a creature of Habitat So whatever it has done in the past It just keeps doing that again and again Almost you can say the mind Acts mindlessly But this There is actually An experiment done by A psychologist, Alexander Pavlov, it’s called Pavlovian Response, so he had An experiment with some dogs And whenever He provided food to those dogs At that time He would ring a bell And gradually What happened is Whenever he would ring a bell The dogs would start salivating Normally they would Salivate and they would see a food But because the food was regularly Associated with the ringing of the bell Their mind started associating Not the sight of the food with The sight of the food with saliva But their mind started associating the sound of the bell With saliva And afterwards, even when you would ring a bell And not provide food, still the dogs would salivate So like that, certain things May have given us some pleasure In the past But over the period of time, so the mind Associates that with pleasure And then now When we grow up spiritually, those things don’t give us Much taste But still Because the mind is a creature of habit So it just thinks This is great And it acts that way That’s why I talked about The default setting The default setting Can’t be changed automatically It has to be changed conscientiously So We need to use our intelligence That means when the mind says I want to go in this direction But the mind is going in that direction But I have to use my intelligence No, it’s going in this direction, but nothing over there So let me bring it in this direction 6.27 Wherever and whenever the mind wanders Bring it back under the controls And by this Probably what will happen Ninja nena atman yogi Niyata manasa Vigata kalyanam ashram Sukhena brahma samskarsam The previous one was 6.26, this is 6.27 So Krishna said by doing this Repeatedly, the mind will become Pacified And it will start to Go in the direction of Krishna So one thing is we need to know that it is going to require Repeated Bringing the mind back on Krishna And second thing is What we could do to make that easier If the mind goes in a particular Wrong direction Then we minimize the access to that Wrong direction So for example If I have an tendency to just Spend a lot of time surfing on the internet Then I may decide to that I may have some Restricted access on the internet May have net to internet which allows Only certain times or only certain sites Or whatever So what happens is Those desires when they come They come as a spike Suddenly a surge of desire And At that time It is almost irresistible But after a few minutes If we succumb at that time Why did I do that I didn’t want to do that, what happened to me So when that surge of desire Comes, it becomes a little difficult to resist But the surge doesn’t Last for that, it will come, it will go If we can just Tolerate during that surge Then we will not succumb So one way to tolerate during that surge is To not have the facility to Act on that desire So it can be with respect to anything You know Some of us may be obese Obese people are told is that Don’t keep fatty food next to you But all you are hungry Keep some healthy snacks next to you Keep some salad, keep some fruits So what happens by that, even if the urge to eat comes Okay, I am hungry Then if there is a fatty food No matter how many reservations I have I am not going to eat this But if it is not accessible Then I have to maybe Go there, go somewhere, buy it or cook it And then purchase it While I am going doing all that Why am I doing this, I decide not to do it Until this comes back So it is good to decrease the access To a particular weakness Or a particular indulgence To which the mind is habituated And by that We can decrease the chances Of the mind going in that direction And increase the chances of the mind going towards it Is the answer to your question? Okay Yeah