​How can people who are conditioned to be child abusers be cured?

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question so in our movement there will be child abuse and these people who do these things they are also conditioned very strongly for doing these things so what is the cure for that the cure is available for those who want to be cured there are there are certain wrongs which can often be so grievous that it’s not just it requires not just a cure it also requires a correction it requires a punishment so that means that say if I have greed and because of my greed instead of working 8 hours or 10 hours I work 14 hours and my whole life gets disrupted by that that’s greed but that is greed which is working with a legal framework but if because of my greed I start robbing places I start robbing a bank I start robbing other people that’s again greed but this greed has gone to such a level that at that time purification alone is not enough purification is required but some punishment also is required so now similarly if somebody has has got uncontrolled tendencies say uncontrolled sexual craving or whatever that they are they are going and molesting others then it’s not just a matter of purification there’s some serious correction is required some disciplinary action is required some punishment is required now there is you know the purification is the ultimate solution but it is not always the immediate solution or even the intermediate solution you know if a thief comes and robs in a somebody if a thief comes and robs someone and then the king comes the king what will the king he has to punish the thief okay there should be in the present some means for reformation also but punishment also is required you know if if we wave away the punishment and just presume that purification solves all the problems and then you know whether that person is actually going to practice the process of purification seriously enough whether the person is actually going to be transformed the by the gravity of the suffering that someone has gone through that is sometimes minimized and trivialized if we assume that all that the wrongdoer requires is purification purification is what they definitely require but certain actions are so grievous that along with that some some disciplinary action in terms of punishment may also be required and unfortunately when people become this kind of conditioned to doing this kind of things say molesting others then often they also become manipulative by which they can keep doing the things without others coming to know about it so then externally they may seem to be following the process of purification but internally they are just looking for opportunities to repeat what they have done in the past so that so that means you know if somebody has done something wrong then at one level there is forgiveness which is required but another level justice is also required there is a balance between justice and forgiveness justice means some wrong has been done punishment has to be given forgiveness means the wrong can be forgiven no punishment is given so sometimes some wrong is such that actually they call not just for forgiveness they call also for justice so without firm action against those who have done this kind of molestation it becomes a license for other people to also do such things I will also be forgiven I will also be you know things will go on it becomes like that so first of all you know even danartha laal, stanger, greed and whatever they are there are there are limits which are forgivable and there are certain limits which when they are exceeded then the actions are penalizable it’s not just so I’m not minimizing the importance of purification I’m just underscoring that that purification is the ultimate solution it’s not always the immediate solution so immediate solution somebody has a track record of doing something wrong then they have to be they have to be not given access to any situation where they have power or their position by which they repeat such things and that’s the only way we can earn the trust of those who have been victimized otherwise you know people feel that oh in the name of forgiveness all that I went through we’re not taking it seriously I went through something horrible and it has to be taken seriously so now after that if the person is earnest the person has done wrong if they are also they are earnest in wanting to change themselves then they can be given certain facilities certain services where they themselves don’t have the opportunity or the temptation for relapse and then they do work at purifying themselves so what that service might be what the situation might be that will have to be determined according to time place circumstance according to individual nature but these kind of conditionings they can also be purified by the practice of bhakti but the person has to be diligent in wanting to practice bhakti so if bhakti is just a front for getting the opportunity to do what one wants to do then the process of bhakti is not going to purify them because they are not really practicing bhakti but if somebody really wants to practice bhakti and purify oneself then the process is so potent that any and every condition can be overcome and even this kind of tendency also can be overcome no doubt about it does this answer your question yes thank you very much thank