>>40691221
First thing is a fundamental shift to focusing on the eternal, the spiritual. This is your only true free will choice you will ever have. Focus on spiritual, or on material.
Then comes the searching, guided by Paramatma, God in the heart. You will find a path that makes mental sense, but has no certainty.
Next is faith in the path, and determination to follow.
Then comes encouraging symptoms, and obstacles that are meant to purify.
Finally, one develops direct experience and realization and revelation which makes one firm in their stance and devotion.