Category:Becoming Free From Sinful Activities
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that sinful activities act as a dense curtain, preventing the living entity from understanding Kṛṣṇa. As long as one is involved in sinful life, the heart remains hard and impure. The analysis of these quotes reveals two distinct approaches to dealing with sin: the method of atonement (prāyaścitta) and the method of devotional service (bhakti). Atonement, such as confession or ritualistic penance, is described as temporary because it leaves the root desire to sin intact. In contrast, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement offers the "easiest method" to permanently Become Free From Sinful Activities. By giving people a higher taste through chanting, prasādam, and good association, the very inclination to sin is uprooted, making the devotee eligible to enter the kingdom of God.
- The Flaw of Atonement: Ritualistic cleansing is compared to the bathing of an elephant—one washes off the dirt (sinful reactions) but immediately throws dust (new sins) back on the body because the desire remains.
- The Four Pillars of Sin: Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies the four primary pillars of sinful life: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling. Freedom begins with strictly avoiding these.
- The Power of the Holy Name: Chanting is the most potent counteraction. Even accidental or blasphemous chanting (like that of Jagāi and Mādhāi) can neutralize lifetimes of sin.
- Training for Purity: Freedom from sin is not automatic; it requires training. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement provides the environment where students can learn to control their senses and purify their existence.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Kṛṣṇa Consciousness - The Easiest Way to Become Free from Sinful Activities.
Pages in category "Becoming Free From Sinful Activities"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- A person who is not trained in Krsna consciousness cannot become completely free from the desire for sinful activities
- According to Patanjali, the transcendental state is to become free from sensuous activities and to attain the stage of perfection perceptible purely by the spirit soul
- According to the Vedic system, one should give charity to sannyasis and brahmanas because one who thus gives charity becomes free from sinful activities
- Although one may become free from the reactions of the most sinful activities by following the religious principles of these scriptures (Manu-samhita and parasara-samhita), this cannot promote a sinful man to the stage of loving service to the Lord
- Anagha, O sinless one, means that unless one is free from all sinful reactions, it is very difficult to understand Krsna. One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. BG 1972 purports
- Anyone who looks upon His beautiful body or beautiful face becomes freed from all sins and obtains the wealth of love of Godhead
- As soon as one becomes free from all sinful activities, he becomes firmly convinced of God consciousness. That is called nistha. Tato nistha tato ruci. Then you taste, - Oh, it is so nice, Krsna consciousness
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- By atonement one can become free from sinful activity, but suppose a man has committed murder and then is killed - the sinful reaction of his murder is thus neutralized, but it is not guaranteed that in his next life he'll not kill another man
- By concentrating the mind one can become free from sinful activities, and by withdrawing the senses one can free himself from material association
- 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
- By practicing the process of pranayama, one can eradicate the contamination of his physiological condition, and by concentrating the mind one can become free from all sinful activities
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- If a spiritual master cannot direct his disciples to become free of sinful activities, he becomes responsible for their sinful acts. These subtle laws of nature are unknown to the present leaders of society
- If one has no pious engagement, it is not that one can become free from sinful activities simply by theoretical understanding
- If one practices eating prasada, even if there is some little sinful activity involved, one becomes free from the results of sinful acts
- If those who are not devotees always think of Visnu, they become free from all sinful activities. Krsna consciousness is the highest form of thought. Lord Visnu is thought of in this age by chanting Hare Krsna
- In the Manu-samhita it is said that the King should be considered merciful when he condemns a murderer to death because a murderer punished in this life becomes freed from his sinful activity and in the next life takes birth cleared of all sins
- It is said, "Persons who are constantly engaged in K C, and who remember the transcendental qualities of the Lord, become free from all reactions to sinful activities, and after being so cleansed they become fit to enter into the kingdom of God"
- It is stressed that although one may become free from the reactions of the most sinful activities by following the religious principles of these scriptures, this cannot promote a sinful man to the stage of loving service to the Lord
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- Jagai and Madhai chanted the name of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 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
- Just like in our association we don't allow four kinds of sinful activities: illicit sex life, nonvegetarian diet, intoxication, and gambling. So by following the regulative principles one becomes freed from all these sinful activities
O
- One has to become freed from the sinful activities. Then one can understand. But the easiest method of becoming free from sinful activity is to accept this Krsna consciousness movement. Easiest way
- One is prone to commit sinful activities even after atonement, which is therefore very inadequate for purification. On the path of speculative knowledge one becomes free from sinful life by understanding things as they are
- One who is completely free from the resultant action of sinful activities, they can be engaged fully in Krsna consciousness. So these students are being trained how to become free from sinful activities
- One who is engaged in Krsna consciousness and devotional service has without doubt become freed from all contaminations of material sinful activities
- Our Krsna consciousness movement aims at engaging people in Lord Krsna's service. That will help them become freed from all material contamination and sinful activity. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.10): vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
- Our subject matter is sinful activities and how to check them. If we do not check, if we do not become free from sinful activities, then we will have to undergo this cycle of birth and death. That is our problem
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- Pariksit Maharaja, who was very intelligent, said - By atonement one can become free from sinful activity, but suppose a man has committed murder and then is killed
- People who are thinking, "By going to the church, by confession, I become free from all sinful activities, and then let me go again, commit the same thing for the whole week, come again and confess," this is not very good business
R
- Retirement is absolutely necessary for a materialist who wants to become free from the activities of a sinful life
- Rupa Gosvami has discussed the sequence of sinful activities of the conditioned soul, and he has established, in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, that those who engage in devotional service become freed from the reactions of all sinful activities
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- So anyway, one has to become freed from the sinful activities. Then one can understand. But the easiest method of becoming free from sinful activity is to accept this Krsna consciousness movement
- So the Visnudutas say that "Even though one has committed so many sinful activities, if at the..., if once he utters the holy name of Narayana, he becomes free immediately." That's a fact. It is not exaggeration
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- The Christians are supposed to go into the church and confess the sinful activities and pay some fine, and then he becomes free. But that free, that excuse can be done once, twice, thrice, not perpetually
- The hunter then admitted that he was convinced of his sinful activity, and he said, 'I have been taught this business from my very childhood. Now I am wondering how I can become freed from these unlimited volumes of sinful activity'
- The Vaisnavas are trained to become freed from the four kinds of sinful activities - illicit sex, indulgence in intoxicants, gambling and eating animal foods
- There is no doubt about one's becoming freed from all reactions to sinful activities after visiting a devotee or touching his lotus feet or giving him a sitting place
- They (The hippies) are becoming free from all sinful activities, such as illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling. This is practical proof of the effectiveness of the Hare Krsna movement
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- We must be very careful. Don't take Hare Krsna mantra as an instrument to neutralize your sinful activities. Don't take it. It is a fact that as soon as you are initiated with Hare Krsna mantra, you become free, but don't commit it again
- When we ask our students that "You become free from all these four classes of sinful activity: no illicit sex, no meat-eating," people laugh, "Oh, why you are asking?" They do not know what is the ideal man
- While performing fruitive activities one can become free from the actions of sinful life through austerity, penance, celibacy, control of the mind and senses, truthfulness and the practice of mystic yoga