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Karma Vipaka
The manasika paapaas are - to think about taking away another's property, to
think about performing bad deeds and not to believe in paraloka or life after
death.
The vaachika paapaas are - cruel and harsh words, telling lies, gossip
mongering and blabbering.
The results of maanasika paapaas are suffered by the mind, those of vaachika
paapaas by word and those of kaayika paapaas with the body. One who
performs serious kaayika paapas will be reborn as immovables such as trees,
those performing vaachika paapaas as birds and animals and those
performing serious shaareerika paapaas will be reborn as chandala.
The results of these paapaas are experienced either in the present birth, in
paraloka or future birth, or some now and some later.
All the sinners spend time in various hells for various durations depending on
the intensity of the sin and take rebirth as plants and trees, birds and
animals, yonis such as pisachas or humans.
The equivalent sins are lying about one's varna, giving false information
causing somebody to be punished, false accusation against Guru.
2. Surapanam - drinking alcohol
The equivalent sins are to talk bad about vedas and also to forget the veda
learned, being false witness, killing of friend, eating what is forbidden and at
forbidden time.
3. Steyam - stealing from brahmin
The equivalent sins are stealing of treasure, children and women, horse,
silver, land, diamond and jewels.
4.Gurutalpagamanam - maithuna with the Guru's wife
5. Tatsamsarga - to interact with one who has performed the above sins,
1. Killing of cow.
2.Performing yajna for the forbidden cast
3. Having illicit relation with somebody else's wife
4. Selling or pledging oneself
5. Not taking care of guru and parents
6. Relinquishing vedic study
7. Not performing the agni rituals
8. Not taking care of the son
9.Younger brother marrying before the elder
10.To speak ill about the chastity of a girl
11. To make living out of lending money
12.To break vows
13.Selling of lake, garden, wife and son
14.Non performance of upanayanam at the proper time
15. Not helping one's relatives
16. Teaching for salary
17.Learning of vedas and sastras by paying fee (not gurudakshina)
18.Selling prohibited materials
19.Indiscriminate mining
20.Buiding dam etc.
21.Destroying trees and plants
22.Running brothel
23.Black magic
24. Cutting tree for fuel
25. Cooking only for oneself
26.Eating forbidden food
27.Not performiong agnihotra
28. Theft
29.Not repaying debt (deva,pitru and manushya)
30.Learning subjects that are against veda and smrutis.
31.Acting and dancing to entertain others.
32.Having relation with a woman who consumes alcohol
33.Killing
34.Lack of belief in life after death
Jathibhramshakaras
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One who drinks alcohol after spending time in hell will be reborn as insect,
worm, those birds feeding on excretion or tiger lke animals.
One who steals gold will be reborn as spider, crocodile, snake or will go into
pishaacha yoni.
One who engages in maithuna with gurupatni, after suffering in hell will be
reborn as grass, creeper, bush, flesh eating animals and birds like vulture or
cruel animals sucha as tiger.
One who takes life of animals, birds (life in any form) will be reborn as flesh
eating animal or bird.
One who eats forbidden food will take rebirth as insect or worm.
Thieves in the next birth will be killing and eating each other.
Those maintain contact with the forbidden or enter itno illicit relationship with
a married woman will remain as pretas and will not attain salvation.
One who steals amimal fat will take birth as sea crow
One who steals silk will take birth as a bird called Tithiri.
One who steals white silk or clothes made of jute will take birth as frog
One who steals cotton clothes will take birth as bird called krouncha
One who steals edible leaves and vegetables will take birth as peacock
One who steals cooked and uncooked food will take birth as porcupine
One who steals fire will take birth as crain
One who steals domestic tools will take birth as an insect called gruhakaari.
One who steals dyed clothes will take birth as chakora bird.
One who steals fruits and tubers will take birth as monkey
One who steals any other kind of animal will take birth as goat
A brahmin who leaves his own prescribed duties will becoma a preta called
ulkamukha
A kshatriya who abandons his prescibed duties will becoma a preta called
katapootana which feeds on excreta.
A Vaishya who leaves his prescribed duties will become a preta called
maitakshajyotik which feeds on puss.
A shudra who takes up some other task than the prescribed ones will become
a preta called chailashaka.
After spending long tiime as preta, when they take rebirth they become
servants of their enemies.
One who disrespects his teacher will be a dog in the next 100 lives and
therafter will be born as a chandala.
One who conducts himself in a satwik manner will take birth in devayonis.
One who is rajasic in nature will be born again as human and tamasic ones
will take birth as birds and animals.
One who performs sins and does not perform peance for it will go to hell and
thereafter when takes rebirth will exhibit signs in his physique such as
deformities and diseases and also other forms of suffering. These are
reminders of past sin and prompts for performing prayaschitta.
One who steals hidden treasures will be childless in the next birth.
One who takes part in a feast uninvited will take birth as crow.
One who imparts forbidden knowledge to women will have bad odour in the
mouth.
One who abducts women of royal class will take birth as donkey.
One who does not help the needy will become brahmarakshasa.
One who steals land will become worms and spend long time amidst the
excreta of dogs together with his pitrus for seven generations. He will be tied
up with varuna pasha and will be reborn as bird or animal.
One who steals cow, gold or land will spend time in hell till pralaya and any
punya that he has gained will be lost.
One who obstructs free movement of cows or destroys cremation ground will
spend time in hell till pralaya.
One who kills cow goes to hell called kaalasootra and on rebirth will be
genderless for 7 birth and will also suffer from leprosy.
One who beats up his guru will suffer from epilepsy in the next birth.
One who sells defective cows and horses ( such as those with one hoof) will
be reborn as tiger.
One who undertakes wrong path will suffer from a disease called gandamaala
in the next birth.
One who engages in maithuna with woman of same gotra will suffer from
elephentiasis in the next birth.
One who performs yajna for the forbidden will be reborn as chandala.
One who takes money for performing yajna and does not use it entirely for
the purpose will take birth again and agin as crow for 100 years
One who steals God's or brahmin's property will live amidst donkey dung
after death for a long time.
The gossip monger will emante foul smell from his nose in the next birth.
One who talks ill of others will have foul smell in the mouth in the next
birth.
One who performs adulteration in grains, milk etc. will have excess organ
such finger.
One who extinguishes lamp and fire(agni) improperly will be blind in one
eye.
One who is cruel towards fellow beings will suffer various ailments
One who engages in illicit relationship wtih another's wife will suffer from
obesity.
One who kills or harasses his father will suffer from congenital nervous
disorders such as birth paralysis or cerebral palsy
Killing or harassing one's sister or or killing of crow will result in being reboen
deaf.
Killing or harassing of women will cause chronic dysentry in the future birth.
One who kills a person of authority will suffer from tuberculosis in the next
birth..
Killing someone from the servant class will result in a k ind of rheumatism
called apatanaka where limbs become stiff.
One who kills craftsmen will suffer from dryness of the body
One who kills a horse will be reborn with an ugly and crooked face
One who kills a buffalo will suffer from a disease called krishna gulma
Killing of donkey will lead to having hair like donkey in the next birth.
Killing of deer called tarakshu will cause squint in the eyes in the next birth.
One who kills a goat called urabhra will suffer from pandu roga.
Eating- forbidden food, those touched women during menstraution and also
by lowly class will result in chronic worm trouble in the next birth.
One who does not feed others even when he has resources will suffer from
Indigestion ( mandagni) in the future birth.
A gossip monger in his fuure birth will have chrinic respiratory ailments.
Chronic respiratory problems
A tormentor of fellow beings will suffer from shoola roga in the futre birth.
One who has set fire to a jungle will suffer from chronic rakataisara (dysentry
with blood)
One who has broken statues(holy) will be fickle minded and indecisive in the
future birth.
One who is rude in his speech will be handicapped in the next birth.
One who teases and talks ill of others will be bald in the next birth.
One who mocks others will be single eyed in the next birth
One who steals brahmin's wealth will end up destroying his own vamsha
One who steals brass will have yellow eyes in the next birth.
One who steals sugar cane products wil suffer from a disease called
udaragulma
One who steals iron will suffer from a disease called karbura
One who steals cooked rice will suffer from tongue disease
One who steals fruits will suffer from ulcer or frequent injuries to fingers
One who steals vegetables will have blue eyes when reborn.
Stealing of tubers will lead to being reborn with short hands
One who steals perfumes will have a foul smelling body in the future birth.
Stealing of wood will lead to being reborn with unusually thin hands
Stealing of wool will result in rebirth with excessive hair in the body
One who steals medicine will suffer from migraine in the next birth.
One who steals red clothes and ruby will suffer from raktavata
Maithuna with brother's wife will result in skin disease called galatkushta
Maithuna with daughter in law will result in skin disease called krishnakushta
Maithuna with step mother will lead to kidney and bladder stones.
Maithuna with father's sister will result in boils or ulcer on the right side of the
body
Maithuna with maternal uncle's wife will result in rebirth with hunch back
Maithuna with mother's sister will cause boils or ulcer on the left side of the
body
Maithuna with a widow will cause untimely death of wife in the next birth.
Maithuna with woman of the same gotra will cause suffering from fistula
Maithuna with deekshitastree ( woman under vow) will be reborn with red
eyes.
Illicit relationship with a married woman of the same caste will result in heart
ailments.
Maithuna with horse will cause suffering from frozen shoulder ( bhuja
stambha)