A Judeo-Christian proverb says: “the only sin is not loving God enough. “Srila Prabhupada has told us many times that sin is acting against the laws of God. If, as Bhatki-tirtha Maharaja has written, “God’s mercy is greater than God’s law,” then not learning to love Krsna can be considered the original sin (papa in Sanskrit means `sin’). In one lecture, Srila Prabhupada says pinning a flower in the hair instead of offering it to Krsna is papa (lecture in Mumbai on SB3.16.28 on 15 January 1975).