If we are not remembering God, whenever God is not in our mind, we are committing sins. We do nothing at all except committing sins, as Lord Krishna said in the Padma Purana,
मन्निमित्तं कृतं पापमपि धर्माय कल्पते।
मामनादृत्य धर्मोऽपि पापं स्यान्मत्प्रभावतः॥Man-nimittaṁ kṛitaṁ pāpamapi dharmāya kalpate.
Mām anādṛtya dharmo’pi pāpaṁ syān mat-prabhāvataḥ.- Padma Purana
“If you are remembering Me by heart, then even if you are sitting in a pub or in any dirty place, you are involved in dharm (righteousness).”
If you are lying and you have to come to satsang (spiritual association) but your family members don’t like it, they fight when you go to satsang, so you say,
“I am going to meet a friend.”
It is a lie. But this lie is dharma. This is punya karm (a pious act). But if you are not lying, you are a very truthful person, you are coming to the temple, and you are sitting in front of the deities, but you are thinking about your family, thinking about your business, then you are committing sin!
“I am sitting in the temple.”
So what? What is going on in your heart? What are you remembering in your heart? That is the word. So you are the sinner.
मामनादृत्य धर्मोऽपि…
Māmanādritya dharmo’pi…
(Even dharm performed without regard for Me becomes sinful).
Although you are doing something very good, and other people may say that you are a very dharmic (righteous) person, you are a very nice person, you are a good devotee, but God, who is sitting in the heart, knows what you are thinking. We are sinners. So, in this way, when we do not worship God, our sins are increasing. Every day, they are multiplying. And when our sins are multiplying, then naturally, in the next life, we will suffer more. Then we will perform more sinful acts, and in the next life, we will be more miserable.
That’s why Shree Maharaj Ji says that we should do it fast, try to understand, and remember God. From now on, think about how you never attained bliss in this world. Even animals learn by the trial-and-error method. But we are human beings, rational creatures, and still, we don’t understand. So many times we are deceived by this world. We have seen the real picture of this world so many times, and still we don’t understand.
And we especially are the most blessed people because we got Shree Maharaj Ji as our Guru, and he infused that philosophy into each and every pore of our self. Even the children know the philosophy of Shree Maharaj Ji. We know that. But still, we are not getting detached from that. We are putting it off.
“Yes, I understand. I will do it! I will do it!”
Because we don’t know that the time of death is chasing us (according to Ved our time of death is pre-determined at our birth) every moment; we are going nearer to death.
