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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
[“I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṇava devotees of the Lord. They are just like desire trees who can fulfill the desires of everyone, and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls.”] He takes responsibility for all the fallen souls. That idea is also in the Bible. Jesus Christ took all the sinful reactions of the people and sacrificed his life. That is the responsibility of a spiritual master. Because Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa, He is  apāpa-viddha —He cannot be attacked by sinful reactions. But a living entity is sometimes subjected to their influence because he is so small. Big fire, small fire. If you put some big thing in a small fire, the fire itself may be extinguished. But in a big fire, whatever you put in is all right. The big fire can consume anything.
BOB:  Christ’s suffering was of that nature?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Mm-m?
BOB:  Was Christ’s suffering—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That I have already explained. He took the sinful reactions of all the people. Therefore he suffered.
BOB:  I see.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  He said—that is in the Bible—that he took all the sinful reactions of the people and sacrificed his life. But these Christian people have made it a law for Christ to suffer while they do all nonsense. [ Bob gives a short laugh. ] Such great fools they are! They have let Jesus Christ make a contract for taking all their sinful reactions so they can go on with all nonsense. That is their religion. Christ was so magnanimous that he took all their sins and suffered, but that does not induce them to  stop  all these sins. They have not come to that sense. They have taken it very easily.