What does it mean to be a slave to sin?

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for what does being a slave to sin mean a slave to sin means that as some wrong activity we are addicted to it and we are unable to give it up give up that addiction so that’s slavery basically means that a slave is forced to do things often against one’s will and is forced to do activities which are degrading denigrating humiliating so similarly now we as souls are meant to be situated in our eternal spiritual glory as parts of God and we can delight in pure everlasting pleasure in spiritual love for God Krishna but when we repeatedly indulge in sinful activities then the sinful activities get a grip on us they bind us for example when a person becomes an alcoholic then the there is there is like we could visualize a subtle rope invisible subtle rope that ties the person’s thoughts to alcohol so the mind repeatedly goes towards alcohol and seeks to indulge in alcohol and every time we indulge in every time the alcoholic indulges in alcohol then it is as if that rope which is there the rope is becoming thicker and tighter and rougher thicker means it becomes stronger tighter means the distance becomes less and rougher means one cannot when one attempts to resist it becomes painful so when we become slaves to sin then that means even when we want to give up sin we can’t give it up and the Bhagavad Gita talks about this in 3.36 to 43 and it describes that Arjuna the Arjuna says that what is it that impels me to wrong doing and Krishna gives a whole elaborate analysis of the inner enemies that reside within us and he gives us a strategy by which one can become free from slavery to sin but that freedom begins first by recognizing that we need freedom and that we have been deprived of freedom so when we are addicted rather than seeing the addiction as pleasure we need to see it as torture as misery and then although there might seem to be a little pleasure but there is so much misery before and so much misery after and therefore we recognize that I don’t want this pleasure that actually in the name of pleasure I am being bound and just as say a fish is bound by a bait there may be a little pleasure in the in the fish the bait but once the bait grabs the fish from inside then everything is lost so like that our life becomes miserable when we in the hope of sinful pleasures take the bait of sin and then become entangled become entrapped become enslaved thank you