Does bad karmas (including thinking) leads to the depletion of accumulated naam jap

Hare Krishna,

I got closely introduced to Krishna consciousness in mid of 2023.

I started naam jap, Ekadashi fasts & other rituals like Deep Daan and Damodarashtakam etc.

With working and homely life I am able to do 4 mala daily.

Though it has positively impacted me and my outlook towards life, self etc and I understand it BUT sometimes I end up doing or thinking wrong feelings like of vasna, due to presence of some alluring object or material, anger and abuse while driving.

I feel so so ashamed and bad afterwards. It gives me a feeling that main kahin dhong toh nahi kar raha...also I repent ki maine jitna Jaap kiya, aur kriyaen ki woh sab barbaad kar di aisa ganda soch ke..ya bol ke..

I feel ki aise mein toh woh log jo Jaap nahi karte lekin aisi buri soch nahi laate mujh se better hain as their actions are better than mine...so what is point of doing all this...pehle main aur achha insaan banu phir naam jap karun....ya vice versa...naam jap mujhe aur achha insaan banne mein madad karega....

Waise main bura nahi hoon lekin bahut achha ban na chahta hoon.

Please help.

Hare Krishna

Puneet

Hare Krishna,

Control bad thoughts. Don't put it into action.

Mental sins are not culpable sins in kaliyuga. Just don't act it out.

if possible avoid.

I know it is next to impossible when kali ki kripa bahut hai humpe. harr time pe toh hum satva guna mein nahi hote hai 24/7

I myself am not.

slowly slowly all vasanas will go away from us when we increase our chanting.

The day you got a bad thought. Just increase one mala and see by the end of one month .. .how many bad thoughts came.

this is nice for me too to implement. wow.

I surely will get more than 30 bad thoughts in a month. ( i mean i will sometimes even think bad about others that also becomes counted).

seriously mental sins are not big big paap but little bit paap tho hai ki..

But in kaliyuga itseems if we think god about others we reap more great piety. Look at what Srila Prabhupada is saying in here

Correspondence

1972 Correspondence

Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972:

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of you letters dated December 6 and 13, 1972, and I have noted that you have sent two airline tickets for my coming there along with my one assistant. If that is so, where are those tickets sent, with which airline, where to pick them up? I am prepared to come there, as you have made such enthusiastic arrangements, but I shall be holding our Hare Krishna Festival again in Cross Maidan from January 12th to 21st, and after that there are a few programmes in Calcutta, so I may leave from Calcutta round about January 25th or so, go first to Djakarta, then as you suggest me. But one thing is, I must travel at least with two secretaries, Srutakirti and Syamasundara.. So you may send three tickets to Bombay, informing us name of airline, etc. But I think your programme is bit strenuous. We should not work strenuously. Whatever can be done easily, that will be better. However, I am prepared to do as you think best, but flying here and there, so many places, that will be little troublesome, what do you think? Better a few programmes with many persons attending of high interest and intelligence, instead of many programmes here and there if there is chance nobody may come. At any rate, I shall be very glad to come there under your invitation to see all those nice boys and girls and how the things are going on. You mention Mohanananda, now he wants to stay there in Sydney. I had requested him to go to Gurukula school because he desired to do it. They very much require a Headmaster there with his experience and enthusiasm, so I do not know if he still wants to do it. Somehow or other our children in Gurukula may not be neglected due to our mismanagement. But we shall discuss further when I come there.

Regarding you question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga. Yes, you are correct in stating that spiritual activities, even mentally performed, are beneficial. You have seen the picture in NOD how a brahmana simply by mental service was promoted to Vaikuntha.

Keep doing all the bhakti activities that you are doing.

dhong ho nahi ho koi baat nahi hai keep chanting.

holy name of Lord Sri Krishna has power to burn unsurmountable sins just as wildfire. Just keep chanting someday humari paap ki ghatri khaali ho jaayegi.

All the best

Hare Krishna

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Gayatri October 24, 2025 at 12:13pm

Hare Krishna,

Control bad thoughts. Don't put it into action.

Mental sins are not culpable sins in kaliyuga. Just don't act it out.

if possible avoid.

I know it is next to impossible when kali ki kripa bahut hai humpe. harr time pe toh hum satva guna mein nahi hote hai 24/7

I myself am not.

slowly slowly all vasanas will go away from us when we increase our chanting.

The day you got a bad thought. Just increase one mala and see by the end of one month .. .how many bad thoughts came.

this is nice for me too to implement. wow.

I surely will get more than 30 bad thoughts in a month. ( i mean i will sometimes even think bad about others that also becomes counted).

seriously mental sins are not big big paap but little bit paap tho hai ki..

But in kaliyuga itseems if we think god about others we reap more great piety. Look at what Srila Prabhupada is saying in here

Correspondence

1972 Correspondence

Regarding you question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga.
Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972:

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of you letters dated December 6 and 13, 1972, and I have noted that you have sent two airline tickets for my coming there along with my one assistant. If that is so, where are those tickets sent, with which airline, where to pick them up? I am prepared to come there, as you have made such enthusiastic arrangements, but I shall be holding our Hare Krishna Festival again in Cross Maidan from January 12th to 21st, and after that there are a few programmes in Calcutta, so I may leave from Calcutta round about January 25th or so, go first to Djakarta, then as you suggest me. But one thing is, I must travel at least with two secretaries, Srutakirti and Syamasundara.. So you may send three tickets to Bombay, informing us name of airline, etc. But I think your programme is bit strenuous. We should not work strenuously. Whatever can be done easily, that will be better. However, I am prepared to do as you think best, but flying here and there, so many places, that will be little troublesome, what do you think? Better a few programmes with many persons attending of high interest and intelligence, instead of many programmes here and there if there is chance nobody may come. At any rate, I shall be very glad to come there under your invitation to see all those nice boys and girls and how the things are going on. You mention Mohanananda, now he wants to stay there in Sydney. I had requested him to go to Gurukula school because he desired to do it. They very much require a Headmaster there with his experience and enthusiasm, so I do not know if he still wants to do it. Somehow or other our children in Gurukula may not be neglected due to our mismanagement. But we shall discuss further when I come there.

Regarding you question, do mental sinful activities cause a bad reaction? The answer is no, they do not. We do not suffer for thinking something sinful. Not in this age. That is a special concession for Kali-yuga. Yes, you are correct in stating that spiritual activities, even mentally performed, are beneficial. You have seen the picture in NOD how a brahmana simply by mental service was promoted to Vaikuntha.

Keep doing all the bhakti activities that you are doing.

dhong ho nahi ho koi baat nahi hai keep chanting.

holy name of Lord Sri Krishna has power to burn unsurmountable sins just as wildfire. Just keep chanting someday humari paap ki ghatri khaali ho jaayegi.

All the best

Hare Krishna

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