The Supreme Lord says: "The devotional service offered to My Person acts as a burning fire, infinitely capable of reducing to ashes all that is thrown into it."

Thus he who, fully conscious of God, genuinely engages in the path of pure devotional service, necessarily becomes purified from it; he can only be free from all defilement from his past material acts. Devotional service therefore has the power to nullify all the consequences of our guilty acts. However, the holy being will watch constantly to no longer commit a fault. This is precisely the mark of a holy being.

If he is born among the outcasts, it must be concluded that his past acts were guilty; but he who enters the path of devotional service and begins to sing the Lord's holy names.

Hare krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare

Hare rama, Hare rama, rama rama, Hare Hare

He neutralized at once, by the song of the Holy Names, all the consequences of his faults.

There are four series of consequences to guilty acts:

1) those that have not yet borne fruit;

2) those which remain in the state of germ;

3) those that have reached maturity;

4) those that have almost reached maturity.

He who abandons himself to God, the Supreme Lord, and engages himself in the devotional service offered to his Person, in full awareness of Him, can at once reduce them to nothingness.

Among the consequences of our faults, "those which have almost reached maturity" are assimilated to the sufferings that undergoes being in the present time; and "those who are still in a state of germ" represent the mass of desires in the heart. In the case of faults "that have not yet borne fruit," sprouting has simply not begun. This writing can make us understand how subtle the contamination by matter is. Its origin, its blossoming and its consequences, manifested in the form of multiple sufferings, follow each other like so many links of an interminable chain. It is often very difficult to determine the exact cause of a disease, to specify its origin, as to predict its development. But the evil is not born suddenly. Thus, just as, as a preventive