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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.63|CC Adi 1.63, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira told Vidura that pure devotees like him are personified holy places because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always with them in their hearts. By their association, sinful persons are freed from sinful reactions, and therefore wherever a pure devotee goes is a sacred place of pilgrimage.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi826_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1142" link="CC Adi 8.26" link_text="CC Adi 8.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.26|CC Adi 8.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one always chants the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, gradually one is freed from all reactions of sinful life, provided he chants offenselessly and does not commit more sinful activities on the strength of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. In this way one is purified, and his devotional service causes the arousal of his dormant love of God.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi831_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1146" link="CC Adi 8.31" link_text="CC Adi 8.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.31|CC Adi 8.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are offenses to be considered in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, but there are no such considerations in chanting the names of Gaura-Nityānanda. Therefore, if one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra but his life is still full of sinful activities, it will be very difficult for him to achieve the platform of loving service to the Lord. But if in spite of being an offender one chants the holy names of Gaura-Nityānanda, he is very quickly freed from the reactions to his offenses. Therefore, one should first approach Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda, or worship Guru-Gaurāṅga, and then come to the stage of worshiping Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.57-58|CC Adi 17.57-58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You have committed an offense at the lotus feet of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura," the Lord said. "First you must go there and beg for his mercy, and then if he gives you his blessings and you do not commit such sins again, you will be freed from these reactions."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.59|CC Adi 17.59, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then the brāhmaṇa, Gopāla Cāpāla, went to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and took shelter of his lotus feet, and by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura's mercy he was freed from all sinful reactions.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17157_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2094" link="CC Adi 17.157" link_text="CC Adi 17.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.157|CC Adi 17.157, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one acts according to the injunctions of śāstra, he is freed from the reactions of sinful activity.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya1194_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="193" link="CC Madhya 1.194" link_text="CC Madhya 1.194">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.194|CC Madhya 1.194, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagāi and Mādhāi chanted the name of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by way of blasphemy, but because they simply chanted His name, they immediately became free from the reactions of sinful activities. Thus later they were saved.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1198_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="197" link="CC Madhya 1.198" link_text="CC Madhya 1.198">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.198|CC Madhya 1.198, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"The activities of devotional service are free from the contamination of material qualities. Therefore, to be free from the reactions of su-viṣaya and ku-viṣaya, one must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In that way, one will save himself from contamination."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya692_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1062" link="CC Madhya 6.92" link_text="CC Madhya 6.92">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.92|CC Madhya 6.92, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When one is actually engaged in pure devotional service, it is understood that he has already attained freedom from all reactions to sinful activities. In other words, it is to be understood that devotees are already freed from sin. A sinful person, a miscreant (duṣkṛtī), cannot engage in devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15107_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3303" link="CC Madhya 15.107" link_text="CC Madhya 15.107">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.107|CC Madhya 15.107, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As for being freed from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa only once, one must chant the holy name without committing any offenses. Then chanting one name is sufficient to rescue a living being from all sinful reactions.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15179_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3374" link="CC Madhya 15.179" link_text="CC Madhya 15.179">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.179|CC Madhya 15.179, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Being very eager to enjoy the fruits of their activities, conditioned souls become involved in the actions and reactions of material life. Consequently they enjoy and suffer the results of karma. However, if a conditioned soul becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, the karma of his pious and impious activities is completely destroyed. Simply by becoming a devotee, one is freed of all the reactions of karma.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1795_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3871" link="CC Madhya 17.95" link_text="CC Madhya 17.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.95|CC Madhya 17.95, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are three kinds of devotees: those who are eternally on the transcendental platform (nitya-siddha), those who have been elevated to the transcendental platform by the execution of devotional service (sādhana-siddha), and those who are neophytes advancing toward the perfectional platform (sādhaka). The sādhakas are gradually becoming free from fruitive reaction.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1871_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4081" link="CC Madhya 18.71" link_text="CC Madhya 18.71">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 18.71|CC Madhya 18.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kālīya-hrada is mentioned in the Bhakti-ratnākara (Fifth Wave):</p>
:e kālīya-tīrtha pāpa vināśaya
:kālīya-tīrtha-sthāne bahu-kārya-siddhi haya
<p>"When one takes a bath in Kālīya-hrada, he is freed from all sinful reactions. One can also be successful in business by bathing in Kālīya-hrada."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2118_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4912" link="CC Madhya 21.18" link_text="CC Madhya 21.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 21.18|CC Madhya 21.18, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with determination." Unless one is freed from the reactions of sinful activities, one cannot understand Kṛṣṇa or engage in His transcendental loving service.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24253_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5569" link="CC Madhya 24.253" link_text="CC Madhya 24.253">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.253|CC Madhya 24.253, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Cheating and hypocrisy are not tolerated by higher authorities. If one understands what sin is, he should give it up with sincerity and regret and surrender unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His agent, the pure devotee. In this way, one can be freed from the reactions of sin and make progress in devotional service. However, if one continues committing sins after making some atonement, he will not be saved. In the śāstras, such atonement is compared to an elephant's bathing. An elephant takes a very good bath and cleanses its body very nicely,</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24254_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5570" link="CC Madhya 24.254" link_text="CC Madhya 24.254">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.254|CC Madhya 24.254, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">By associating with a saintly person, one is able to understand the reactions of his sinful life. When one voluntarily surrenders to a saintly person who is a representative of Kṛṣṇa and follows his instructions, one can become freed from sinful reactions.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2577_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5749" link="CC Madhya 25.77" link_text="CC Madhya 25.77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.77|CC Madhya 25.77, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">""Being touched by the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, that serpent was immediately freed from the reactions of his sinful life. Thus the serpent gave up his body and assumed the body of a beautiful Vidyādhara demigod.""</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.77|CC Madhya 25.77, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When this serpent attacked Nanda Mahārāja, Nanda Mahārāja began to call, "Kṛṣṇa! Help!" Kṛṣṇa immediately appeared and began to kick the serpent with His lotus feet. Due to being touched by the Lord's lotus feet, the serpent was immediately freed from the reactions of his sinful life. Being freed, he again assumed his original form of Sudarśana, the Gandharva.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya1202_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="201" link="CC Antya 1.202" link_text="CC Antya 1.202">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.202|CC Antya 1.202, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A pure devotee, free from the reactions of the material modes of nature, executes devotional service with tolerance like that of a tree. He also feels humbler than the grass. Such a devotee, who is called niṣkiñcana, or free from all material possessions, is always absorbed in emotional love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3126_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="514" link="CC Antya 3.126" link_text="CC Antya 3.126">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.126|CC Antya 3.126, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Pure devotees chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and simply by hearing this chanting from a purified transcendental person, one is purified of all sinful activities, no matter how lowborn or fallen one may be. As soon as one is thus completely free from the reactions of sinful activities, he is eligible to render devotional service to the Lord. This is the process for engaging the fallen souls in devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3139_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="527" link="CC Antya 3.139" link_text="CC Antya 3.139">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.139|CC Antya 3.139, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees collect the money of others for the service of Kṛṣṇa, and they are satisfied with Kṛṣṇa's prasādam and whatever He gives them for their maintenance. They do not desire material comforts. However, they go to great pains to engage the possessions of prostitutes, or persons who are more or less like prostitutes, in the service of the Lord and thus free them from sinful reactions. A Vaiṣṇava guru accepts money or other contributions, but he does not employ such contributions for sense gratification. A pure Vaiṣṇava thinks himself unfit to help free even one person from the reactions of sinful life, but he engages one's hard-earned money in the service of the Lord and thus frees one from sinful reactions.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3177_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="565" link="CC Antya 3.177" link_text="CC Antya 3.177">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.177|CC Antya 3.177, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Some of them said, "By chanting the holy name of the Lord, one is freed from the reactions of all sinful life."</p>
<p>Others said, "Simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord, a living being is liberated from material bondage."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya6200_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1256" link="CC Antya 6.200" link_text="CC Antya 6.200">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 6.200|CC Antya 6.200, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone, whether an insect or the King of heaven, is entangled and bound by the actions and reactions of his karma. However, when one becomes a pure devotee, free from material desires and from bondage to karma, jñāna and yoga, one is freed from material actions and reactions by the causeless mercy of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="TLC1_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="7" link="TLC 1" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 1|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The seventh offense is to commit sinful activities on the strength of chanting the holy name. It is understood that by chanting the holy names one is free from sinful reactions, but this does not mean that one should act sinfully on the strength of chanting. That is the greatest offense.</p>
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<div id="TLC16_1" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="22" link="TLC 16" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are grossly sinful are not at all afraid of committing sins, but here we can see that because his purification began in the association of a great devotee like Nārada, the hunter became afraid of his sinful activities. The hunter therefore replied: "My dear sir, from my very childhood I have been taught to kill animals in this way. Please tell me how I can get rid of all the offenses and sinful activities which I have accumulated. I am surrendering unto your feet. Please save me from all the reactions of my sinful activities which I have committed in the past, and please direct me to the proper path so that I can be free."</p>
<p>"If you actually want to follow my directions, I can tell you the real path by which you can be freed from sinful reactions."</p>
<p>"I shall follow whatever you say without hesitation," the hunter agreed.</p>
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<div id="TLC22_2" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="28" link="TLC 22" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 22|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 22]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī then quoted another verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.34.9) regarding Nanda Mahārāja's being attacked by a serpent who was previously Vidyādharārcita. When the serpent was touched by the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, he regained his previous body and was freed from the reactions of his sinful activities.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD1_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="5" link="NOD 1" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 1|Nectar of Devotion 1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This sinful desire-seed can be removed only by achieving Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And this can be accomplished very easily by chanting the mahā-mantra, or Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, as recommended by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. In other words, unless one adopts the path of devotional service, he cannot be one-hundred-percent clean from all the reactions of sinful activities.</p>
<p>By performing Vedic ritualistic activities, by giving money in charity and by undergoing austerity, one can temporarily become free from the reactions of sinful activities, but at the next moment he must again become engaged in sinful activities.</p>
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<div id="NOD7_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="25" link="NOD 7" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 7|Nectar of Devotion 7]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa it is said that one who observes fasting on Ekādaśī day is freed from all kinds of reactions to sinful activities and advances in pious life. The basic principle is not just to fast, but to increase one's faith and love for Govinda, or Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="NOD8_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="32" link="NOD 8" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 8|Nectar of Devotion 8]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Padma Purāṇa it is stated that even a person whose life is completely sinful will be completely protected by the Lord if he simply surrenders unto Him. So it is accepted that one who surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes free from all sinful reactions.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 8|Nectar of Devotion 8]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">(7) To commit sinful activities on the strength of the holy name of the Lord. (It should not be taken that because by chanting the holy name of the Lord one can be freed from all kinds of sinful reaction, one may continue to act sinfully and after that chant Hare Kṛṣṇa to neutralize his sins. Such a dangerous mentality is very offensive and should be avoided.)</p>
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<div id="NOD10_4" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="58" link="NOD 10" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 10|Nectar of Devotion 10]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee should not expect immediate relief from the reactions of his past misdeeds. No conditioned soul is free from such reactionary experiences, because material existence means continued suffering or enjoying of past activities. If one has finished his material activities then there is no more birth. This is possible only when one begins Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, because such activities do not produce reaction.</p>
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