Sin after the Name is a fang-less snake — it still bites from habit, but the venom is gone
Sin after the Name is a fang-less snake — it still bites from habit, but the venom is gone
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"It is like the snake. If the teeth of a snake have been removed, then if you go near the snake, the snake will still go and rise up like this, and even bite you — but it will have no effect. … No teeth, no poison inside."
"If Ajamila's very first uttered Name already burned up all his sins, why did he sin again afterward?" Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu answers with an image: sin after the Name is like a snake whose venomous fangs have been pulled out. It still raises its head, still lunges and bites — out of old habit. But there's no more venom in that bite, it doesn't kill. So it is with your old tendencies: they may still twitch and pull as before — but the Name has already removed their deadly sting. Don't be frightened when the habit stirs again, and don't think the Name hasn't worked.
Keep chanting — and one day even the fangs will fall away.