Why does the Supersoul sanction our unhealthy choices?
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When a super soul knows that certain options are undesirable are unbeneficial for the soul how does this sanctioning take place? Why does a super soul sanction? There is free will which is given to all living beings and that free will is given so that there can be reciprocation of love but love requires as an independent choice, the capacity for independent choice the capacity for independent choice also means the necessity of the possibility of wrong choice the scope has to be given otherwise there is no meaning for free will just like I was few months ago in Melbourne so that time somebody asked this question that why is it that the wrong options in life are so many more than the right options so many wrong options so few right options why is it like that? So I explained that’s how it is in any multiple choice exam So usually there will be four wrong options and only one right option If success in a multiple choice exam were only a function of numerical probability then the student could well sue the teacher because you have given four wrong options so my probability of getting the right option will be 20 and 20 is fake therefore you are responsible for my failure but and success in the multiple choice exam is not a function of probability alone success is a function of the level of study of the student the teacher has not just given multiple options, the teacher has given an education by which the student can make the right choice similarly Krishna has given his free will and he has given his knowledge through Guru Sadhu Shastra and through the voice of conscience internally to make right choices and to the extent we make right choices to that extent we get marks we are promoted to a higher level so when Krishna sanctions his sanction is basically based on what is it that we strongly desire so it is in the Bhagavad Gita and after seeing the Bhagavad Gita in any constitution Krishna says deliberate deeply on what I have said and then now do as you desire that means Krishna accepts the reality of our free will acknowledges our human independence and appeals to our intelligence the whole Bhagavad Gita is appealed deeply and after that do as you desire so that is the fact that the soul desires something wrong and why does God sanction that? God doesn’t always sanction what we desire and that is the voice of conscience from within which tells us don’t do this so for example a butcher may be habituated to killing but when a butcher’s son comes to kill for the first time with a hand made trumpet this is a living creature how can I kill? but then first time he cuts, second time he cuts third time he cuts ten or fifteen times down the line fifty times down the line the person just starts cutting like a living creature as if one is just cutting some vegetables now he shall only come back so what has happened? when we don’t hear the voice of conscience then Krishna says you don’t want to hear me? I won’t interfere with you so Krishna reciprocates with our choices and by reciprocating with those choices the choices we make if we continuously reject his voice then he stops signaling to us so it is and Krishna gives us counsel about the right choices but when we reject it then he says that’s what you want you can try it out so he sanctions based on our karma on that everything that we desire is sanctioned but if something is within our karmic budget we could say then he sanctions it and even if it is harmful for us that is how we have to learn our lesson he has given us free will and we can learn either by hearing or we can learn by enduring so if we don’t learn by hearing then he sanctions so that we can learn in alternative because ultimately it is we who have to make the right choice and that right choice has to be forwarded to the leader