What is Sin?

Sin is not the nature of man. According to Vedanta, it is only the tarnish that has come to dim the brilliance of the Self, due to an error of judgment in the individual. Sin is only a mistake committed by a misunderstood individual ego against its own divine nature as the eternal soul.All those acts performed and the motives entertained, which create grosser mental impressions and thereby build stronger walls between us and our cognition of the real divine Spark in ourselves, are called sins.Any act of sensuousness which the mind pants for in the world of objects, hoping to get thereby a joy and satisfaction, creates necessarily within itself increasing agitations and this type of mistake of the mind, is called a sin.The craving of the mind and intellect, to live in subservience to the calls and appetites of the grosser outer world, is the root cause of the negative values entertained by us, which ultimately results in sins.He is called a sinful person in whom his body makes the heaviest calls on his time and attention. In such a person, the body becomes the dominant partner, and it ‘enslaves’ the Self. An extrovert life – a life spent in pursuing the satisfaction of his sensuous desires, to comfort and console everyone of his paltry emotions – is the way of the sinful.Kill the ‘little I’ and live. See, think and act as the ‘great I’.

What is Sin?

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