In every religious system there is a process of atonement. In Christian religion there is a process of atonement called confession. The Pariksit Maharaja is practical politician. He said that… He had also experience that a criminal is punished and again he commits the criminal act. Nowadays we practically see also that government has enacted so many laws against criminality, but criminality is going on without any stoppage. We have got practical experience, as we have explained last night, that in the airport the security checking is going on for everyone, which means that after so much education, every one of us, we are dishonest. This answer is there in the sastra: yasyasti bhaktir bhagavaty akincana sarvair gunais tatra samasate surah. This means that if one is turned to be a pure devotee, then all the good qualities automatically become manifest in him.
Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-guna manorathenasato dhavato bahih [SB 5.18.12]
Whereas a nondevotee, he has no good qualification because he is acting on the mental platform, as such, he will be always attracted by material things.
karmana karma-nirharo na hy atyantika isyate avidvad adhikaritvat prayascittam vimarsanam
The Sukadeva Gosvami said, “O son of Vedavyasa…” The Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vedavyasa… Sukadeva Gosvami is the son of Vyasadeva. He answered, “My dear king, since acts meant to neutralize impious action are also fruitive, they will not relieve one from the tendency to act fruitively. Persons who subject themselves to the rules and regulation of atonement are not at all intelligent. Indeed, they are in the mode of darkness. Unless is freed from the mode of ignorance, trying to counteract one action through another is useless because this will not uproot one’s desire. Thus, even though one may superficially seem pious, he will undoubtedly be prone to act impiously. Therefore real atonement is enlightenment in perfect knowledge, Vedanta, by which one understands the Supreme Absolute Truth.” In this verse there is one particular word, vimarsanam. The meaning of this vimarsanam: “full knowledge of Vedanta.”
Then Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak, “My dear king, if a diseased person eats the pure, uncontaminated food prescribed by a physician, he is gradually cured and the infection of disease can no longer touch him. If one follows the regulative principles of knowledge, he gradually progresses toward liberation from material contamination.” Therefore in the Vedanta-sutra it is said that athato brahma jijnasa: “Now this life, human form of life, is simply meant for inquiring about Brahman.” At the present moment, especially in this Kali-yuga, nobody is interested in brahma-jijnasa. Therefore he prescribes from scripture,
tapasa brahmacaryena samena ca damena ca tyagena satya-saucabhyam yamena niyamena va [SB 6.1.13]
One should make his life successful by tapasya, austerity, penance. So brahmacarya is one of the item.
Full Lecture: http://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/sb/6/1/9/nellore/january/07/1976
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.9
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Nellore, January 7, 1976
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