Chanting God's name purifies absolutely, but sinning deliberately while chanting constitutes the gravest offense against that divine mercy.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.3 — September 7, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750907SB-VRNDAVAN [23:15 Minutes] SB-06.02.03_750907SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Second Chapter, verse number three.
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Prabhupāda: prajānāṁ pitaro ye ca śāstāraḥ sādhavaḥ samāḥ yadi syāt teṣu vaiṣamyaṁ kaṁ yānti śaraṇaṁ prajāḥ [SB 6.2.3] prajānāṁ pitaro ye ca śāstāraḥ sādhavaḥ samāḥ yadi syāt teṣu vaiṣamyaṁ kaṁ yānti śaraṇaṁ prajāḥ [SB 6.2.3] So yesterday we discussed that aho kaṣṭaṁ dharma-dṛśām adharmaḥ spṛśate sabhām [SB 6.2.2]. Just like in the court, court of justice, if there is adharma, then it is very painful situation. That is happening now in this Kali-yuga generally. Big, big court justice, magistrate, they are giving favorable judgment, being bribed.
This is Kali-yuga. But śāstra says, "No. Justice must be given very honestly." That is the rule. So about this Ajāmila, these Yamadūtas, they came to take him away to Yamarāja, but the Viṣṇudūtas said, "No. He is not to be taken away.
He is now cleansed of all sinful activities. You do not know that; therefore you are not giving him justice." So yatrādaṇḍyeṣv apāpeṣu daṇḍo yair dhriyate vṛthā [SB 6.2.2]: "One who is not punishable, if he is punished, that is injustice. So you should not take him away. He is not punishable." Yamarāja is there for punishing the sinful men.
So all of them are not sinful. There are many pious men. Sinful men, they are of small number. So one must be very cognizant of justice.
Just like in the prison house the number of prisoners are not greater than the number of free persons. That is natural. Although this material world is mixed—sinful men and pious men—still, at least formerly, there were sinful men less. It is said in the śāstra that in Satya-yuga there was no sinful men at all.