WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Unkindness yields spoiled fruits, called pāpa, and good deeds bring forth sweet fruits, called punya.

Detailed explanation-2: -Punya and pāpa are the seeds of future pleasure and pain, the former, which sows merits, exhausts itself only through pleasure and the latter, which sows demerits, exhausts itself only through pain; but jivan mukti ends all karmic debts consisting of and signified by these two dynamics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pap Karma. We acquire Pap or sinful karma when we perform or reflect on any non-virtuous work associated with violence, dishonesty, stealing, not behaving chastely, attachment to worldly objects, anger, conceit, deceit, lust, revenge, and having impure thoughts.

Detailed explanation-4: -punya, (Sanskrit: “merit” ) Pali punna, primary attribute sought by Buddhists, both monks and laymen, in order to build up a better karma (the cumulative consequences of deeds) and thus to achieve a more favourable future rebirth.