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Prabhupāda: In the last meeting we were discussing why people are forced to commit sinful activities. This point is also …

Just like the same example that one man is seeing practically that one who has committed something criminal, he is …

If you steal, then you will be imprisoned for six months. If you cheat, you'll be imprisoned for such-and-such period. …

So kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ [Bg. 3.37].

Kāma and krodha. Kāma means desire, lust. Kāma. And when the desire or lust is not fulfilled, then there is …

As we have discussed many times that we are in this material world controlled by the three modes of material …

So goodness... Yes, passion and ignorance is the..., are the causes of our bondage. And goodness is also cause of …

So Śukadeva Gosvāmī's question is that suppose a man commits some sinful activities and he executes some atonement. In atone... …

[child sounds in background]

[aside:] This is disturbing. Attention is diverted. Yes.

So just like in the Christian church, they have the atonement process, confession. So suppose if you go weekly in …

If you make it a business that "The whole week I shall commit sinful activities, and on Sunday I shall …

So Parīkṣit Mahārāja's question is that, that the atonement is there. But if one commits atonement and again commits sinful …

Similarly, if I am accustomed to commit sinful activities and for that reason I confess and make some atonement, then …

So in every religion there are processes of atonement, prāyaścitta. In Hindu religion also there is such thing. Every religion …

Just like a child has committed some wrong and he comes to the father. The father sees that he has …

But if on the third time again he commits the sin, what the father and the teacher will do? He …

So if I go to God, if I go and confess, "Father, God, Supreme Father, I have done these sinful …

So people should come to the understanding that "These sinful activities I shall not do." But he is forced to …

So we have to come to the platform of goodness from the platform of ignorance and passion. Then our life …