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

[V Subrahmanian]

In fact 'pashchaattaapa', repenting, also cleanses the person.पश्चात्तापेन
शुद्ध्यति.  There are smruti texts that go to the extent of saying 'the
person should go about announcing/proclaiming his sinful act so that others
come to know of it.' as part of prayaschitta.

regards
subbu

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 9:03 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 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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