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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Kaushik
My understanding is that , we cannot say that "only unintentionally done
pApas undergo kxaya by prAyascitta karma. And any pApa karma done knowingly
can not be expiated by prAyascitta karma."

I have seen statements that do talk in that sense. But they can be taken as
arthavAda in order to make people desist from doing whatever they want with
the notion that there is anyway some ritualistic karma which will
neutralize it.


Even in the case of Rama's brahma hatya pApa on killing Ravana, he did
prAyascitta at Rameshwaram by installing the linga etc. and invoking the
grace of Ishvara for neutralizing the intentionally done karma.

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-skanda-purana/d/doc423615.html

Om
Raghav

On Thu, 9 Mar, 2023, 4:12 pm Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 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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