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Papa Punya:
People think sin is only a Theosophical Subject. Every thing in this Universe is Cyclic by nature, like oxygen cycle, Food cycle etc. So when you help some body he is suppose to help you or others. If he helps you or others, cycle completes or starts accordingly and every body involved in the cycle gains Punya that heightens his conscious level. If he don’t he gets Papa. Untimely Papa
(sin) and Papi (sinner) both are destroyed due to cyclic nature of the Universe, which is Called Chakra Sudarsan.
Studies of brain response to various situations may
provide important insights to this question. In the last
post in this series we considered some of the science
pertaining to lust, gluttony, and sloth as discussed in
the article "Seven Deadly Sins" in the September 2009
issue of Discover Magazine (the magazine has a website
at discovermagazine.com - but this article is not
available on-line, at least not yet).
Today I would like consider the last four --- pride,
envy, greed and wrath. Greed has not been studied
explicitly, but the other three have. Despite the fact
that these seem to be sins of the will or spirit rather
than the body, they, like lust, gluttony and sloth, have
biological roots and observable signals in the brain.
Envy is interesting - in a study of envy a number of
volunteers were observed using fMRI (functional MRI)
while they read one of three scenarios - the key one
described a student similar to the volunteer, but better
in every respect. The conflict detecting regions of the
brain fired and the response was similar to that for
pain. This leads to the suggestion that envy is a kind
of social pain. Later, when reading about this student's
downfall, the reward and pleasure regions of the
volunteer's brain fired. Not only this but the greater
the pain in reading about the student's success, the
greater the reward in reading of the student's downfall.
The reward response is along the same line as that
experienced from food - or sex. It feels good.
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