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The five Nidrā.
Five unclassified results.
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and of course also hinders any one from getting that supernatural vision which is only possessed by the omniscient (Kevaladarśanavaraṇīya). If any sin be very heinous, its fruit may ripen in the very life in which it was committed, so that the sinner may suffer for it before death without having to wait for rebirth, but usually the wages of sin accumulate and only affect a jīva in succeeding lives.
Sin seems to have a specially unfavourable influence on attempts at meditation, for one of the fruits of sin is slumber, that great foe to prayer. All indulgence in sin leads to sleepiness if the sin had been slight the slumber is light (Nidra), and the sleeper can be awakened easily; but heavier sin brings on heavier slumber (Nidrānidrā), from which the awakening is painful. In a worse state sleep comes uninvited to a man as he tries to meditate when he is standing up or sitting down (Praċalā); and as a punishment for yet grosser sin it does not wait for movement to cease, but overpowers him even as he is walking along the road (Ċală or Pracala pracala). The worst type of slumber (Styānarddhi or Thinarddhi) is the fruit of gross sin, and indues its victims with terrific vigour, so that they possess at least half of the strength of the great Väsudeva. With this strength they commit in their sleep all sorts of crimes, murders and manslaughters, so that their guilt is increased, and with it is increased also their slumber, hence they are perpetually involved in a hideous circle of crime bringing forth slumber and slumber bringing forth crime, from which there is no relief.
In the long list of eighty-two results of sin one comes after Nidrā to some unclassified results, which we shall deal with more fully elsewhere, such as the being born in a low-caste or poor family (Nicagotra), being born in hell (Narakagati), or suffering sorrow on sorrow (Aśātā. vedaniya), perhaps in hell. As a result of sin, too, the force (Narakānupūrvī) is accumulated which will send one to hell, and the time one will have to spend there (Narakayu) is also dependent on our previous sins.
