Why does God give some people an evil mind?

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God, he has created everyone so why has he given some people good mindset, some people cruel mindset it is not exactly that Krishna has given it is more that we have chosen and cultivated by our own actions so here let’s look at it from this life perspective say parents might have two twins and they are genetically similar their upbringing is similar but still one twin might become a very respectable, upstanding person, the other person might become resentful sullen, disagreeable now we could say there is nothing external about it it was different, their upbringing was different their parenting was different everyone of us makes choices and our disposition is shaped by our choices every, it’s like every action that we do it has not only an external reaction, it also has an internal component to it and that is every action forms an impression within and every impression comes off as a proposition built up that means each time I do something the next time I have that situation, I will be prompted to do it again say nobody is born an alcoholic but they drink once, twice thrice and what happens? that action creates an impression and the deeper the impression the stronger comes the proposition so now you can extend this framework backward backward means to before this life just as two twins they by their actions chose particular impressions and they develop particular dispositions although most of the things about them are identical so similarly the kind of disposition that we get at birth it is true that we do get sometimes some disposition at birth itself even among, if you have multiple children each child has a different personality some children, all children cry some children cry in a way it appears that they are going to bring the whole house down by their crying so now where does this come from? the personality of the child may be very, in a small way expressed in infancy or childhood but still it’s there so that comes from the previous life’s actions so those who have chosen to act virtuously in previous life will be born with a virtuous inclination in this life and those who have acted not impiously in their previous life they will be born with that kind of inclination but the important thing is whatever we have done in the past that comes only as a proposition it doesn’t come as a imposition the past can impel us that means it pushes us, it can’t compel us when it pushes we can counter push we can counter push and that is where our free will comes so these three factors in our past life actions our our past life actions come as a birth characteristic then our upbringing and our present association all these they push us to act in particular ways but we have free will and if we use our free will we can counter push and our power to counter push can be increased by bhakti, by divine grace and not only that the power of divine grace can do two things one is it increases our power to counter push and secondly it also decreases the power of these forces so spiritual growth happens in both ways so when we come in spiritual programs like this we try to practice bhakti what are we doing none of us can change our past life impressions we can’t change our upbringing but our association we can change the association itself is also a positive influence but by coming over here coming for spiritual programs like this our intelligence gets stronger our our capacity to use our free will to push against the inclement forces becomes stronger and if we continuously practice bhakti then gradually that purification decreases those counter forces also those unhealthy forces within us and that’s how nobody is irredeemable nobody is so so evil that they cannot be saved, they cannot be transformed but depending on the kind of conditions different people may require different amounts of time ok thank you