Ignorance cannot be removed by karma; only divine knowledge through devotional service restores original goodness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number twelve. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Eleven?
Prabhupāda: Thirteen? Eh? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Eleven?
Prabhupāda: Eleven. No, eleven I have discussed. Yes. You have got eleven there?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Hari-śauri: We did ten yesterday.
Prabhupāda: All right. [leads devotees in chanting] śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca karmaṇā karma-nirhāro na hy ātyantika iṣyate avidvad-adhikāritvāt prāyaścittaṁ vimarśanam [SB 6.1.11] [break] [01:28] ...and I have several times said that what is the use of? That is the same, hasti-snāna. If he does not know how to keep, the elephant, how to keep neat and clean, if he has no this knowledge, so repeatedly he'll take bath and throw dust. So Bhāgavata, Parīkṣit, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the next step.
Next step means to become cultured. First of all prāyaścitta: "You have done this wrong; you should be punished." But the punishment will not rectify him. And that is practical. There are so many rules and regu..., punishment.
In common cases... Just like every day the police is giving a ticket to the motor driver; still, the same thing is going on. So to keep oneself in darkness and makes rules and regulation will not help. Just like your government has admitted that they have spent millions of dollars, they could not stop the intoxication habit of LSD.