Regret For Wrongdoing Reforms Regret For The Consequence Of Wrongdoing Deforms Gita 03.40

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Regret for wrongdoing reforms, regret for the consequences of wrongdoing deforms. Suppose a teenager drives beyond the speed limit and gets caught, that regret and when they are penalized and they are educated to understand how dangerous speeding can be, that may impel us to start driving more cautiously in future. But instead, they start thinking that, oh, if only I had been more careful, if only I had kept a better eye on when cops come, then I could have avoided the fine.
By such an attitude, they will end up doing the wrong again and they may get habituated to it. And eventually they may end up in a deadly car crash. To prevent such a thing from happening, they need to recognize that wrongdoing is wrong intrinsically, not extrinsically because of the consequences.
So the Bhagavad Gita questions that the inner impurities impel us all to wrongdoing. And when such impurities take over our intelligence, when they take over our intelligence, then they can hurt us enormously. Because then rather than using our intelligence to not do the wrongdoing, we use our intelligence to cover up our tracks after doing the wrongdoing.
And that is trouble indeed, big, big trouble. Because the most damaging consequences of wrongdoing are not just the material tribulation that we may experience after doing wrong. Far more damaging is the spiritual disconnection that we experience, by which we end up hurting ourselves, by which we end up losing our spiritual connection and the spiritual happiness available thereof.
To prevent such misdirection, if we gain spiritual education and understand how wrongdoings are intrinsically harmful, not just intrinsically harmful, not just in terms of the consequences we eventually get, but the consequence we immediately get because our consciousness is disconnected from Krishna and eventually become more vulnerable to further wrongdoings, then we become more impaired to not just avoid wrongdoing, but start doing the right thing, gaining more and more absorption in Krishna and gaining higher satisfaction thereof. Thank you.