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Chapter 18
Kriyamana actions are of two kinds - Good and evil. Actions which are performed, in accordance with ordinance of scriptures, are called good, while actions performed against ordinance of scriptures, out of desire, anger, greed and attachment, are evil.
These bear fruits, in two forms - direct fruit, and fruit in the form of impression (influence). Direct fruit is divided into two kinds - seen and unseen. The seen fruit, can further be divided into two - immediate and remote. As the immediate frait of tasteful food, is that it satisfies hunger and its fruit in future, is that it gives strength. Similarly, he who eats chilli in excess, with food, has a burning sensation, in the tongue, mouth, throat, ears and eyes. That is immediate fruit. It causes disease, in future, and is future fruit.
Similarly, unseen fruit, can either be reaped here, or hereafter. Acts of sacrifice, gifts, penance, pilgrimage and chanting etc., can bear fruit here, in the form of riches, sons, praise and honour etc.,[1] and hereafter, in the attainment of heaven. Similarly, fruit of evil actions such as theft, robbery and murder in the form of fine, imprisonment and execution is unseen fruit, which is reaped here, while birth as birds, beasts, insects and creepers, and residence in hell is fruit, which is reaped hereafter.
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