Karma: Freedom from Reactions

Q. 1. What do the scriptures including the Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam have to say about "collective karma"? Our individual karma is generated by our own intentional and unintentional actions but what about the actions we perform as part of a group or as a society? Does responsibility get assigned to each one of us? Particularly, in the context of the planetary environment, we have collectively made impacts on the earth and are now seeing the consequences.

Q. Please help me understand the term 'sarva papebhyo mokshayishyami' (BG 18.66).

My understanding is that a conditioned living entity accrues sins and material piety when not engaged in devotional service. When Krishna says He or His bonafide representative delivers from sinful reactions, what happens to the material piety accrued? Does sinful reaction include both sins and material piety? Wouldn't the living entity be still entangled due to material piety and thus not relieved from material bondage? Or does Krishna take away both sins and material piety when a living entity surrenders unto Him?

Q. Part 1: Krishna says in BG "Surrender unto me and I'll take all your sins" but sometimes we see a devotee of Krishna also suffers. So please explain how karma affects a devotee (i.e. karma done in previous life, in this life and all future karmas).

Complete surrender to Krishna destroys all stages of karma, both a priori and a posteriori, just as Krishna promises. In other words, a fully surrendered devotee is NOT AFFECTED by karma.

Q. 1. I work in a hotel that serves meat. By working there have I committed a sin? Would I be ineligible for Krishna Consciousness?

Q. It is said that 7 generations up and down get liberated when a pure devotee is born in that family or if a family member has perfected himself at the end of life. Also we hear that one cannot go back to godhead unless he has fully surrendered and achieved love of Krishna. What happens when the people in that family are not devoted? We can take Srila Prabhupada's family as an example. Please explain.

Q. In the Bhagavad-Gita, last verse of the second chapter, Krishna says that "... If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God". Also the purpose of all the practice that we do is to remember Krishna at the time of our final exam - The DEATH. Regarding Ajamila's deliverance, is his previous karma also involved in this or is it just purely because he chanted Krishna's name?