Śyāmasundara: I think that's the difference between the Christian emphasis and Kṛṣṇa consciousness...
Prabhupāda: Because it's simply mental speculation. There is no basis.
Śyāmasundara: The Christian monks, ascetics, they always thought that the life they were giving up, they were suffering, always that feeling...
Prabhupāda: Poor fund of knowledge, that's all.
Śyāmasundara: Anyway, to go on...
Prabhupāda: And they have developed this philosophy and this Bible, after the demise of Jesus Christ. More or less it is concoction.
Śyāmasundara: He says that the opposite of faith is sin, that sin is the same as despair. Sin and despair are the same.
Prabhupāda: Well, unless you have got complete sense of God, there is no question of sin or piety. Because if you do not know what is the standard of sin and piety.