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134 THE NINE CATEGORIES OF and of course also hinders any one from getting that super. natural vision which is only possessed by the omniscient (Kevaladarśanāvaraniya). 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 jiva in succeeding lives. The five Sin seems to have a specially unfavourable influence on Nidrā.
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 (Nidrā), and the sleeper can be awakened casily; but heavier sin brings on hcavier slumber (Nidrānidrā), from which the awakening is painful. In a worse stato sleep comes uninvited to a man as he tries to meditate when he is standing up or sitting down (Pračalā); 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 (Calā or Pracalāpračalā). The worst type of slumber (Styānarddhi or Thiņarddhi) is the fruit of gross sin, and indues its victims with terrific vigour, so that they possess at lcast half of the strength of the great Vāsudeva. 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 hidcous circle of crime bringing forth slumber and
slumber bringing forth crime, from which there is no relief. Five In the long list of eighty-two results of sin one comes
assi- after Nidrā to some unclassified results, which we shall results.
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 (Aśātāvedaniya), perhaps in hell. As a result of sin, too, the force (Narakānupūrvi) is accumulated which will send one to hell, and the time one will have to spend there (Narakāyu) is also dependent on our previous sins.
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