When the Lord’s glance is purifying why did Mohini-Murti’s glance not purify the demons?

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Now, if Lord Mohini Murthy is glancing at the demons, and is the Lord’s glance not transcendental? And were the demons not attracted by that glance, how would they become deluded even after receiving the glance of the Lord? Actually, the Lord is all-powerful, He is all-pure and all-purifying.
But still, He never superimposes His will on the living entity’s will. And if somebody doesn’t want to become purified, the Lord doesn’t force purification on that person. So, we see that even Pururava, he, in this next canto, in the ninth canto, Pururava does a yajna, and he does actually a yajna, it’s a karmakanda sacrifice, but the sacrifice is directed towards Lord Vishnu.
And when Lord Vishnu comes in front of him, what does he ask? He says, please, give me Urvashi. So, he is not purified. Why is that? Because he is approaching the Lord, but he is holding on to his own idea, as I said, his own definition of enjoyment.
And he wants the Lord to fulfill his definition of enjoyment. Whereas, pure devotion means we put aside our own definition of happiness and surrender to the Lord, and the Lord gives us greater happiness than what we could have got otherwise. So, when the demons saw Mohini Murthy, they did not know that it was Vishnu, and they were not attracted to Mohini Murthy in any transcendental way.
They were attracted entirely in a material way, and they had no desire to become purified. So, because their consciousness was entirely material, and there was no desire for purification, so although Mohini Murthy’s glance is in one sense transcendental, but in this case, because of their materialistic consciousness, the effect was that they continued to stay at the material level of consciousness only. That did not purify them.
Thank you. Hare Krishna.