Well, there's a way in which, if you eat candy every day, you may think "I'm okay," but if you cultivate knowledge about where diabetes comes from, and what happens when you ingest junk food over a long period of time, then you can get an overview. When we're practicing a discipline, it's always helpful to take directives seriously that even though I don't know what the result is going to be exactly, I can take it from the experts. This is the outcome. The doctor will say, "If you do this enough times, it's going to lead to this." Or if someone says, "If you play tereketa carefully, you're going to be able to move your hands on the mridanga in a certain way, in a certain time," in the beginning, you have to follow the authority. It's part of the mighty practice is take the order as a military order that "this is the way to march. This is the way to do these things," trusting the doctor and trusting the order that's coming down.

And if I do it properly, then the result will come on it's own accord. So Kṛṣṇa says, "evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā, saṁstabhyātmānam ātmanā, jahi śatruṁ mahā-bāho, kāma-rūpaṁ durāsadam (BG 3.43)—Fortify your intelligence and be smart about it, and don't give into the whimsies of your mind. Rule by your intelligence, not by some idea that your mind has, like, who cares? Be more strict with yourself in the process," and that always seems to turn out better in all aspects of our life, doesn't it?

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