Hare Krishna All,
Pamho,
AgtSP!
I need an advice on different processes of atonement for various sinful activites that I committed.
I want to undergo purification process before I get initiated by my guru maharaj. I request some
senior devotees to kindly help this fallen soul to get mercy of guru and Krishna.
Your Humble Servant
Aakash
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Hare Krsna dear Bhakta ,
Please read Nectar of Instruction Verse 1 purport. It will answer your query completely. A brief is attached below for reference.
A sinful activity cannot be counteracted by a pious activity. Thus real prayascitta, atonement, is the awakening of our dormant Krsna consciousness.
Real atonement involves coming to real knowledge, and for this there is a standard process. When one follows a regulated hygienic process, he does not fall sick. A human being is meant to be trained according to certain principles to revive his original knowledge. Such a methodical life is described as tapasya. One can be gradually elevated to the standard of real knowledge, or Krsna consciousness, by practicing austerity and celibacy (brahmacarya), by controlling the mind, by controlling the senses, by giving up one's possessions in charity, by being avowedly truthful, by keeping clean and by practicing yoga-āsanas. However, if one is fortunate enough to get the association of a pure devotee, he can easily surpass all the practices for controlling the mind by the mystic yoga process simply by following the regulative principles of Krsna consciousness — refraining from illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling — and by engaging in the service of the Supreme Lord under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master. This easy process is being recommended by Srila Rupa Gosvāmī.
thank you.
your servant
Haladhar Das