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Dear Devotee Member

"Srila Prabhupad Ki Jai"

Question & Answer on the Burden of Sins and Offences were is the hope

We are already overloaded with so many sins and when we come to the Lord the devotees scare u sof the the many offences which I have never heard of. How is it possible to any kind of hope in such circumstances?


Krsna The Perfect Gentleman never ever stabs someone from behind the back

Best examples are present in Brihat Samita that speakes of omens which people call it as andha visvas(blind faith)

Even before giving us the result of our bad or sinful activities(vikarma's) that is to hits us. The all merciful Lord sends warning signals of the ill effects through the nature. Brihat Samita is book that speaks of such warnings and signals of the Lord to the humans. It also speaks of results of good activities.

This shows the demigods who have to punish us when the time comes from punishment cannot do so without intimating us before attacking us or awarding punishment to us.

Secret to Avoid & Overcome Sinful life 

Root of Sin

5 Places that kali resides are Binding activities – Anything done in mode of passion and ignorance will bind us.
 
Meat eating,
Illicit sex,
Intoxication and
Gambling 
Gold/Aisvarya/Lakshmi 

 Not engaging Gold/Aisvarya(lakshmi) in the service of Krsna and wanting to enjoy her independent of Krsna as Ravan wanted to do with Sita, that is it enjoy Her though She belonged only to Rama.
 
Wealth/Money will destroy us if not engaged in the service of the Lord as Aisvarya/lakshmi when one possesses that person ends up in indulging with sinful thoughts that leads to sinful activities.  We desire subtly first before we could indulge grossly.

Therefore Srila Prabhupada trained us to practice Yukta Vairagya. everything to be engaed in Krsna's service. Parallel to following the above chanting of 16 rounds of Maha Mantra will help us to overcome sins. 

We accept that to come to the Brahma Bhuta platform of we are not this body but spirit souls but to come to this platform we need to work on becoming sinless by following the four regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds of Maha Mantra without offence. To chant the 16 rounds of Mahamantra without offence it is not possible, if we do not surrender to the Panchatattva therefore the Panchatattva Mantra to be chanted 3 times before we start our Japa as these were the set rules by Srila Prabhupada.

At the level of Sins we follow Ekadasi Vrata

Brahma-vaivarta Purana: “Ekadasi destroys all a person’s sin, bestows limitless piety, and causes them to remember Govinda.”

Thus, there are three aspects mentioned here to following Ekadasi (1) removal of bad karma, (2) gain of good karma, and (3) remembrance of Govinda.
This Panchatattva mantra can only help us from all the 4 offences. (Nama Apradha, Seva Apraradha, Vaisnava Apradha, Jiva Apradha) 

Secret to Avoid & Overcome Aparadha

The way to avoid Aparadha is firstly by holding to the Lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada for spiritual strength. The next ladder is to hold the feet's of the Pancha Tattva by chanting the Pancha Tattva Mantra a devotee will be able to avoid Vaisnava Aparadha This Pancha tattva Matra will be able to help the devotee in avoiding. The various Aparadhas and its effect can be seen in full when a devotee with his free will works on developing the 26 qualities of Vaisnavas with utmost sincerity. 

At the level for avoiding and Overcoming Offences we take part in fasts and festivals according to gaudiya calendar.
 
Note:

In both the case the words avoiding and overcoming are used.

We need to execute our free will then the lord will help and the first free will is to depend on the lord and surrender.

If we avoid committing Sins and Aparadhas then the Lord will help us overcome Sins and Aparadhas. That is if we stay away from sinful life and avoid offending others including a jiva by our frivolous behavior then the Spritual Master prays to the Lord and recommends such a soul in his sincere endeavour to award Victory.
The Lord being the Caitya Guru will surely help us overcome but the recommendation from the Spiritual Master to the Lord will only fetch us the Victory of entering into the close domain of the Lord.

Do's
To Summarize to overcome all the sins we need to chant Mahamantra and to overcome all offences we need to chant Panchatattva Mantra

Dont's

To overcome the root of sins that is were Kali resides the five places. Follow the 4 regulative Principles of 
  1. No meat eating
  2. No intoxication
  3. No illicit sex
  4. No Gambling

5th comes Gold this Prabhupada taught us to use it for Krsna by teaching us the Principle of Yukta Vairagya (Utility is the Principle)

The Dont's of offences,

To Avoid 
10 offences to Holy Name that is the Maha Matra (this is interlinked)
64 Seva Apradhas
Vaisnava Apradha (Different level of devotees)
8,400,000  Jiva Apradha (Jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera 'nitya-dasa') every living entity is a Vaisnava so ideal is to try to engage every soul in the service of Krsna. 

Conclusion as per our understanding
12 Brahminical qualities will appear if we avoid 4 sins and Chant 16 rounds of Mahamantra and if we are able to overcome all the 4 types offences by avoiding them 26 Vaisnava Qualities will manifest.

Last but not the least the various fasts and festivals coupled with Deity worship and going to the holy places of the Lords pastimes are the savior activities.

All the Do's (Orders) of Devotional Service Reside in the One Do and that is Always remember Krsna (Offence less life helps us remain hear).
&
All the Don'ts (Prohibition) of Devotional Service Reside in One Don't and that is Never Forget Krsna (Sinless life helps us remain hear)

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