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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 2]
kept nicely sheltered, completely confident that their masters will protect them, but unfortunately as soon as the animals are fat, they are immediately sent for slaughter. Such cruelty is condemned by Vaiṣṇavas like the Viṣṇudūtas. Indeed, the hellish conditions already described await the sinful men responsible for such suffering. One who betrays the confidence of a living entity who takes shelter of him in good faith, whether that living entity be a human being or an animal, is extremely sinful. Because such betrayals now go unpunished by the government, all of human society is terribly contaminated. The people of this age are therefore described as  mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ . As a consequence of such sinfulness, men are condemned ( mandāḥ ), their intelligence is unclear ( sumanda-matayaḥ ), they are unfortunate ( manda-bhāgyāḥ ), and therefore they are always disturbed by many problems ( upadrutāḥ ). This is their situation in this life, and after death they are punished in hellish conditions.
TEXT 7
अयं हि कृतनिर्वेशो जन्मकोट्यंहसामपि ।
यद् व्याजहार विवशो नाम स्वस्त्ययनं हरेः ॥ ७ ॥
ayam hi kṛta-nirveśo janma-koṭy-aṁhasām api yad vyājahāra vivaśo nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ
ayam —this person (Ajāmila);  hi —indeed;  kṛta-nirveśaḥ —has undergone all kinds of atonement;  janma —of births;  koṭi —of millions;  aṁhasām —for the sinful activities;  api —even;  yat —because;  vyājahāra —he has chanted;  vivaśaḥ —in a helpless condition;  nāma —the holy name;  svasti-ayanam —the means of liberation;  hareḥ —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Ajāmila has already atoned for all his sinful actions. Indeed, he has atoned not only for sins performed in one life but for those performed in millions of lives, for in a helpless condition he