If we are born with demoniac qualties are those qualities God’s gift to us?

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Okay So if you are born with demoniac qualities Are those demoniac qualities Something is God’s gift to us And if somebody becomes a big demon Is that their gift to God Okay There is When we say that Something is God’s gift to us What it essentially means is That it is a resource How we use the resource Is up to us Now within whatever we have So We all have done certain karma Karma in the past And based on that karma We have a constellation of good and bad Some talents, some limitations Some virtues, some vices Now Whatever that combination is That combination Is suitable for our spiritual growth So when we get karmic reactions When we get a particular body We get a particular mind It is not just a random package of karma Put together You know it is not a random heap of karma Just like randomly mixed together So we are given what we need For our life journey To grow through it And to move towards Krishna So now For any person in the world Even people who are talented They also have instinct They also have impulsive side And they need to Discipline their impulsive side There are many In sports there are many Players who may have great talents But they can’t overcome their nerves And they can’t develop their talents So yes So by their past karma they had the talent But they also had that That insecurity That vulnerability to nerves So then they have to train themselves To overcome the lower side So basically we all have a higher side and lower side So The combination Is what we What is suitable Best suited for our growth From where we are But how we use that is up to us If we develop our lower side Then we are Neglecting the gifts that God is giving us So we could say that The good things that we have The bad things we have That combination is something Which is the starting point But how we choose it is up to us So what we become is our gift to God It is not just a factual statement It is more like a prescriptive statement That we should become something Which will be a gift to God So we have to bring out The best within Not the beast within We all have our lower side And if we fuel those impulses Then what we are doing is not a Gift to God It will become like a burden to the world So the process of God has given us A certain starting point But then he has also given us The spiritual knowledge By which we can bring out the best within us So if we neglect that spiritual knowledge If we neglect that process Say It’s like we have been given some ingredients for cooking something So now I have also been given a manual by which I can cook If I use the manual, cook Then I can have a nice delicacy to eat So Similarly we have been given certain Higher side, we have a lower side But we have been given the guidelines by which We can bring out the higher side and we can cook the lower side So to the extent We follow that manual Then we will be able to tap the gift Otherwise we neglect the gift And we instead of Becoming a gift, we become a burden That is the responsibility of our freedom So everybody Even people who are demoniac, they have certain abilities But they misuse those abilities But scripture guides us How we can best use our abilities When we do that And when we guide ourselves according to scripture Then we can actually become And our life can become a gift to God