Book Title: Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01
Author(s): H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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________________ 310 RELIGIOUS SECTS Kármańa, the form which is the necessary consequence of acts. These two last are necessarily connected from all time, and can only be disunited by final liberation, or Moksha. Other varieties of ‘Good' are colour, odour, flavour, touch, warmth, coolness, and the like. IV. Pápa, or "Ill', in contradistinction to the preceding, and implying that which is the cause of unhappiness to mankind: there are eighty-two kinds; As the five Avaranas, or difficulties in acquiring as many gradations of holy or divine wisdom. Five Antaráyas, disappointments, or impediments, as not obtaining what is about to be presented, not being able to enjoy an object of fruition when in possession of it, and want of vigour though in bodily health. Four Darsanávasánas, obstructions, or impediments to information derivable from the senses, or the understanding or to the acquirement of divine knowledge. Five states of sleep, inferior birth, pain, as a condition of existence, as when condemned to purgatory, belief in false gods, defect of size or shape, and all the human passions and infirmities--as anger, pride, covetousness, &c., including, amongst the ills of life, laughter and love. V. Asrava is that source from which the evil acts of living beings proceed. The varieties are the five Indriyas, or organs of sense; the four Kasháyas, or passions, as wrath, pride, covetousness, and deceit; the five Avratas, non-observance of positive conmands, as lying, stealing, &c. and three Yogas, ad

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