Why does the world offer more wrong options than right options?
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thank you so the question is that I said the world is for purification, not gratification but we see more opportunities for gratification than for purification, why is that? that’s how it is in any multiple choice paper 5 options 4 are wrong, only 1 is right since the students were left only to probability to make the choices then it would seem very unfair the student is arbitrarily going to check any option then the probability of the student choosing the right option is 20% and the student will get only 20% marks so before a multiple choice exam the teacher provides education and when the student learns based on an education, then although there are no wrong choices the student can make the right choices similarly yes there are many wrong choices in this world but Krishna gives us education through sculpture and through conscience so that we can make right choices and even when you say wrong choices there are also grades within that, there is goodness, passion and influence and not all choices are equally wrong although from the sculpture point of view if anything is not connected to Krishna then it is wrong but even within that there are grades of rightness or wrongness and further also the larger number of wrong choices is because we have larger number of middle desires so Krishna has arranged the world in reciprocation with our desires, so because we have desire for sense gratification, Krishna has arranged that there are so many sense objects through which we can gratify our senses but at the same time the more we become purified, the more we make right choices, making right choices also becomes a habit and then gradually we start seeing the wrong choices, not as wrong choices per say, we start seeing wrong choices also as pointers towards the right choices, what does that mean? that means initially if you look at sense objects you will say this is Maya I should stay away from it but the Bhagavad Gita also offers a more evolved conception in 8.41 Krishna says that so all beautiful, opulent, glorious things in this world they reflect the spark of Krishna’s will, so if we see something very beautiful in this world, if a sense object seems irresistibly attractive rather than just simply rejecting it as Maya we can also think that if this which reflects only a spark of Krishna’s splendor is so attractive then how attractive is Krishna therefore let me devote myself to Krishna so in this way Krishna gives us more options there are multiple options for sense gratification because that’s what we desire but once we start desiring to purify ourselves once we start desiring to move towards Krishna then even the material objects which were earlier seen as wrong options we start seeing them also as reminders of Krishna and then even through them not necessarily by enjoying them but even by connecting them with Krishna even that can help us move towards Krishna