We have to appreciate why Krsna consciousness is better in so many ways. And we have to be thoroughly convinced that our life is much better than the life of others and when we are actually experiencing that then we know that of course it’s better.

We have the four regulative principles- the regulative principles of freedom. We have it and everyone else is caught in sinful activity, which is just creating a network of reactions leading to death and we are free. All the activities of a devotee, each act, is making us more and more free from distress, whereas a materialist, each activity is pulling him down more. From early in the morning, as soon as a materialist will open his eyes it will begin….put some coffee in there, put some cigarettes in there, put some unedible things in there and just sinful activity after sinful activity the whole day! And karma upon karma upon karma! So each day collecting more and more karma whereas a devotee each day is throwing off karma. Throwing it off, less and less and the burden becomes removed. It is mentioned that a devotee is in this way becoming released from the darkness of the sinful reactions.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011, Helsinki, Finland)

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