When we become purified does the predominant mode of the mind change?

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thank you so when we question when we practice spiritual life and become purified does the predominant mode of the mind change actually it will vary from person to person generally the composition will change that means of the percentage everybody has some level of goodness, passion, ignorance even a person who is in satva guna that person has to sleep at that time to some extent the influence of tamo guna will be there but generally when a person becomes advanced there may be some rajo guna there may be some tamo guna remaining still but they don’t have any controlling role that person develops enough self control by which one can follow scripture and follow the super soul from within the heart so it’s not that a kshatriya will develop entirely a brahmana’s propensity that is unlikely to happen a kshatriya will remain a kshatriya lifelong but even within the kshatriya there can be too much rajas and there can be less rajas so in general in youth the passions are much more as one grows older the passions decrease now in general if one does not practice dharma then the passions don’t decrease just the body’s capacity to indulge in those passions decreases and that’s why there is frustration that results but if one practices dharma then even the passions decrease so that means the basic psychophysical nature of the person will not change but at the same time the overall capacity of the person to be self controlled and to be able to harmonize with scripture to live a life of dharma that will become easier over a period of time that’s why we will see that in the third chapter there are two almost contradictory things Krishna is saying in 3.34 he says that nigraha kim karish he says that what will depression accomplish but then after that immediately Arjuna asks about lust and then he talks about lust and when he talks about lust there he says that you have to control lust so it’s almost the same word nigraha and niyamya so that means first when Krishna is talking about he is talking about varna and varna dharma saying you are a kshatriya you cannot repress your kshatriya nature but then later when he is talking about kama he is saying that as a kshatriya kama can drag you away you have kshatriya dharma and within that you have certain license within which you can engage in kama but the nature of kama is it will drag you out of that license and then you have to control that so that means it’s unlikely that our basic nature will change but within the nature that we have the relative percentage of the modes will change in such a way that we will be able to do the same things in a less passionate way we will be less influenced by the lower modes and we will be able to stay more in a sattvic consciousness and a devotional consciousness as we become purified so it’s not necessary that a person who is in a say a kshatriya mentality or a vaisya mentality will give up that mentality a person may have that mentality lifelong overall but still a person’s capacity to balance it out with sattva guna and with a devotional consciousness will increase