[Advaita-l] Is there a difference between papa and dushkarma

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste sir.
The concept of karma is a huge topic. The karma being experienced by a
present life is almost always "prarabdha karma". That is karma being
experienced that has already been done in previous life's. The prarbdha is
of accidentally performing a crime and is punished for it. It's not
directly the karma of the crime that is being experienced.
If we contend that its the karma of this life itself then what about people
who escape the punishment of crime without any repentance, has the lord
forgiven them without a punishment? Not so.

Hence the punishment of actions done in this life is usually experienced in
a future life. Or in hell or another life. This is the usual case.

Namo narayana.

On Thu, 9 Mar, 2023, 10:54 pm sammit khandeparker, <justsammit at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Please do give a citation of the same. I will be greatly obliged.
> Now lets do  a thought experiment. Suppose  a man by mistake commits
> brahma-hatya. He repents performs prayschit and is forgiven by lord. But,
> government will not forgive him. His guilt will be proven in court and he
> will be sent to jail. So even if he is forgiven by God for sin. He will
> still have to suffer for his paap. How is this possible then?
> Is this because paap is different from bad karma?
>
> Dr. Sammit P. S. Khandeparkar
> PhD(Religious Studies)
>
>
> On Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 04:12:29 PM GMT+5:30, Kaushik Chevendra <
> chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Namaste sir.
> Our acharyas have already provided the answer to this question.
> Only "unintentional" sins are what are removed from devata Pooja, tirtha
> yatra, ganga snana etc or intentional sins committed once but which we
> repentance for.
> Hence there is no contradiction in the karma theory.
>
> On Thu, 9 Mar, 2023, 3:05 pm sammit khandeparker via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Scholars,
> Sadar Pranams. I have a query. It may look simple to learned minds but I
> am quite perplexed by it. Towards the end of shodoshopchar Puja we say that
> performance of such rituals can eliminate papa caused by sins like
> brahmahatya. Many a falashrutis also say that recitation of such an such
> stuti will eliminate mahapapa.
>    - My first question is how is this achieved, i.e. how is maha-papa or
> brhamaHatya eliminated by a devpuja or stuti?
> I have this issue because we are told that we have to pay for bad karma.
> Such falashrutis contradicts karma law.
>
>    - Can such patha of stuti block all types of karma, like say kriyaman
> karma?
> Please guide me on this. It seems so unjust that great sins like brahma
> hatya  be forgiven so easily? How does this thing operates?
> DhanyawadSammit
>
>
>
> Dr. Sammit P. S. Khandeparkar PhD(Religious Studies)
>
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