Whenever our mind weakens our connection with reality, we need to stop, not rush forward. Suppose we are talking with someone on phone and say the outer weather leads to a weakening of the connection, as soon as we sense that the connection has weakened, we stop talking. If someone started talking faster, whenever the connection weakened, you would consider that person to be foolish. All that speech would be wasted. Unfortunately that is what we do when our mind weakens our connection with reality. When we start feeling that the things that we know are false are right, when we know the things that cause trouble will give us pleasure, at that time we need to pause. Unfortunately, the mind makes us rush forward. That is why the Bhagavad-gītā states, the wise do not delight in sensual pleasures.

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02.59 Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.