The origin of sinful acts is most often found to be ignorance of the facts concerning God, existential truth, and absolute spiritual knowledge. But ignoring the sinfulness of an act does not prevent its undesirable consequences, which, if committed, give rise to further sinful acts.

Furthermore, we distinguish between two kinds of sins: those that have, so to speak, “reached maturity,” and those that have not yet. By “sins that have reached maturity,” we mean those whose consequences we are currently experiencing; the others are those, numerous and accumulated within us, that have not yet produced their fruits of suffering. A person who commits a crime may not be caught and condemned immediately, but they will be sooner or later.

Similarly, for some of our sins, we will suffer in the future, just as for others, “having reached maturity,” we suffer today.

Thus, sins and sufferings follow one another, plunging the incarnate soul, conditioned by material energy and the energy of illusion, into pain life after life. It suffers in its present life the consequences of the actions committed in its previous life, and prepares itself, through its present actions, for new sufferings in the future. “Ripe” or “completed” sins can result in chronic illness, legal troubles, low birth, inadequate education, or a mediocre physical appearance.

Our past actions burden us today, and our present actions prepare us for future sufferings. But this chain can be broken in an instant for those who embrace the consciousness of God and serve Him with love and devotion. This means that the devotional service offered to God is capable of erasing all defilement.

God says in this regard: “The devotional service offered to My Person acts like a blazing fire, capable of infinitely reducing to ashes everything thrown into it.”

All the good we do, we will reap in blessings, and all the evil we do, we will also reap, but of exactly the same nature, in our next life in the form of suffering similar to that which we inflicted or made suffer one or more victims.

You shall not kill, this is the command we have received from God.

By this command, God asks us not to harm any living being: all human beings without exception, white, black, yellow, red, mixed-race, all land and water animals, and all plants in their diversity.

In truth, all human bodies without exception, all animal and plant forms, contain a spiritual soul, which gives life and animates the body in which it resides. Each of us is a spiritual soul, and it is not the interest of the body that must be sought, but that of the soul, for while the body is perishable, the soul is eternal, immortal. There is no reason, no justification for taking anyone's life.