Are unconsciously committed offenses also counted as offenses?

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Yeah, so when we commit offences, are unconscious offences also counted within them? Yeah, so usually it is like two things are there the process of Bhakti itself is a process of becoming increasingly conscious of things that’s why when we remember, we hear about the offences regularly, we remember them then we are conscious of them and we are meant to avoid them more but we should know that Krishna is not a fault finding God, so the principle of offences is not just to catch us doing wrong and to punish us for doing wrong the principle of offences is or rather the purpose of talking about offences is that we develop a proper reverential disposition towards the things which are actually worth reverence so the underlying principle of all offences is that we see material that is actually spiritual, we don’t value what is to be valued, so within offences there are you could say intentionally done offences, that means say for example I don’t like some devotee and that’s why I want to pull that devotee down and that’s why I spread some rumours about that devotee or even if I tell some truth which is not necessary to be told so that which is done with a malicious intention, that is a very serious offence but something which may just be done because of the habitual conditioning that we have which is not really done with malice that is not such a serious offence if we realise it, then we can apologise or we can do something to correct ourselves and gradually as we become more and more aware, then we can try to avoid committing that offence but unconscious offences are not definitely taken as seriously as conscious offences or much more than that the most dangerous are consciously meditated or consciously premeditated actions, they are the most dangerous if we speak something and someone feels hurt by that now that, is that an offence if that person is hypersensitive and they feel hurt, then quite often it’s their problem, but if we know about that they are hypersensitive and still we speak about that then that is a lack of sensitivity in our part and that could be some level of offence, but if we are not aware of that at all and then we speak something and they feel hurt, then that’s not really a very serious offence, we come to know about it we can clarify later, but it’s not that the whole concept of offences is meant to make us paranoid while living in devotee association no, we should feel at home in devotee association, not home in a taking people granted sense but home in the sense that we feel comfortable and safe with devotees so the offences should not make us feel the fear of offences should not make us paranoid okay Thank you How are you doing? Tomorrow when we sit for chanting we will remember this These are the two things which you have not seen That’s what you have found So don’t take life as personal Okay Yes So I think they have made that a column This is the type which I have seen Maybe they did it with their attention Yes They are not putting in the table of contents So the They are not putting in the table of contents It’s fine Table of contents is not good What is the page number there? Page number is 47 Page number is 47 So they have put it as a pillar somewhere towards the end That’s fine He has said that huge territory is there So 8000 members So it means close to 8000 people all are Indian Oh Ramneet is a Hindu 96% Bangalore is not Bangalore is not Delhi they are not Where is all? Here there is only 4 sections No more than 2 No more than 2 This is definitely Let’s see So I don’t know about how many of them are reading How many? If there is any noise it automatically removes it That’s why many tools record but the noise