Will purification enable us to make good choices always?
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so will there come a time in future when we make only good choices yes if you are talking about good choices in terms of moral and immoral then there will come a time when we become pure enough where we will not make immoral choices so for example now I may succumb to lust, I may succumb to greed I may succumb to anger and that is because of weakness, that is because of conditioning when the more pure we become the less we are likely to succumb to these still the desires may come Swaroop has written in 2.70 that the desire comes but the inclination is not there that means what? I may also if somebody behaves irrationally, I will become angry I will feel anger but I won’t act on that anger so like that, that wrong choices the more we practice bhakti and become purified at that time the wrong choices coming because of our anarthas they will no longer happen but wrong choices in terms of when there is an ethical crisis not knowing what to do it may happen that I may try one thing and then it doesn’t work, I will try something else so it is not that when we become pure we will become god we will never become omniscient so when we say that we are not omniscient that means even when we become pure our knowledge will still remain limited and sometimes based on the limited knowledge that we have we will make a particular decision this was not the right thing to do maybe I will do this one so if you think of wrong in terms of having wrong intentions I mean in terms of wrong intentions short sighted pleasure, short sighted diligence those wrong choices because of wrong intentions they will no longer happen as we become more and more pure but sometimes wrong decisions because of a finite perspective because of a limited perspective that can happen to anyone and the important thing is that the more spiritually advanced we become our perspective remains finite only our perspective always remains limited but we become more aware of the limitedness of our perspective when I am conditioned I think I know everything but as I become advanced I know there is so much that I don’t know then we are also more open to other perspectives I was thinking this way but this is also another way of looking at it and that way even if we go off track we can come back on track more easily