Pictorial Philosophical Balpothi

Author(s): Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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THE MERITS AND THE SINS
Why in this world, anything does not happen according to our desire? Why is desired success not achieved in spite of sincere efforts? Why does an unexpected trouble arrive? Out of two different persons under similar circumstances, why is it that one is benefited and the other has to suffer loss? Why do one get happiness and the other get sorrow?
It is because of sins and merits. There are two types of karma(fortunes). The good and the bad. Good fortune gives happiness while bad one gives unhappiness. Good Karma means merits and Bad Karma means sins. Merits bring happiness: give the desired fruits and right understanding to a living being. Sins bring unhappiness, give the undesired fruits and wickedness.
In the first picture, a person is shown who has got grandeur, good food, fruitful business, bungalow, car and a healthy body. Heavenly plane can also be seen there. All these can be got if one has earned merits.
In the second picture, a bullock is seen being whipped and carrying heavy load. Moreover, labour, weakness, scavenging, being kicked by a stronger one, inability to make better study even after hard work, prison, hell etc. are shown. These are due to sins committed previously
There are 158 types of such karma. A merit namedd. shata vedniya gives good health. Merit of uchcha gotra cause to be born in upper class family. With devayushya and manushyayushya punya, one can become a god and a man respectively. Shubh namm karma gives good state, beauty, good physique, reputation, good luck, popularity, publicity, acceptance by people etc.
Ashata vedniya sins bring unhappiness, pain and diseases. Sins of neech gotra cause birth in lower class family. Due to Ashubh naamkarma, one is born as monosensual, ant etc. and gets insult, infame etc. Due to gnanavaran sin, one can neither learn nor remember what he studies. Mohniya sins cause wickedness, anger, proud, greed etc. Due to antaray sins one can't get the desired materials, becomes unable to enjoy and remains weak etc.
The ways to earn merits are doing charity to worthy saints, co-religionists etc; by appreciating the virtuous persons, remembering the God, devotion, obeisance, compassion, vows and regulation, penance, forgiveness, truth, morality, to tend to have good thoughts and good conduct etc,
The sins get accumulated by doing the things like slandering the guru, god and religion, interrupting in doing religion, practicing violence, lie, immorality, worse dids, corruption, kashayas (Anger etc.), lust, hunting, gambling, eating kandamool(ground roots), consuming the inedible, eating in hotels, taking dinner at night etc.