What is sweet at first, is poison in the end

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

‘What is bitter at first is sweet in the end, What is sweet at first is poison in the end. To everyone is given the choice. It all depends on the effort put in, and the unflagging determined will; for whoever strives must soon arrive at the city of his choice.’

~ Saint Lalleshwari

Question: Please give us clarity on the words, ‘effort’, ‘determined will’, ‘striving’, and ‘choice’.

Acharya Prashant (AP): ‘What is bitter at first is sweet in the end, What is sweet at first is poison in the end. To everyone is given the choice. It all depends on the effort put in, and the unflagging determined will; for whoever strives must soon arrive at the city of his choice.’

The unflagging determined will, choice.

Existence is freedom because there is nothing except it. It is unqualified, unconditional freedom.

It is free even if it pretends that it is not free. It is free to act free, and it is free to act unfree.

Even in the worst of…