Sin
idea · 8 works · 11 mentions · 17 anchored passages
sin · sins · a crime · bound impurity · crying sin · evil · fault · impurity · passions · pāpaṁ
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Moral transgression conceived as a binding fetter that Varuṇa can loosen or forgive.
[…] Whatever sins committed against us, O Varuṇa, O wise king, those you have loosened.
Loosen the highest fetter from us, O Varuṇa;
May they release me from the curse-born sin, and from that which belongs to Varuṇa;
Rigveda
Committed wrongdoing conceived as bound within the body, from which release is sought through Soma-Rudra.
release, loosen from us whatever sin has been committed that is bound in our bodies.
When the rays of Agni the mighty go forth from everywhere—burn away our sin.
When through thee, O Agni, thy patrons prevail, when we too prevail—burn away our sin.
Poems
Sin as a moral category invoked by Chloe to object to unchaste love, which the speaker undermines with wit.
Protrepticus
Moral transgression described as a disease of the soul and eternal death, from which repentance saves.
but I would pity him in his drunken folly, and would call him who is thus beside himself to a sober salvation, since the Lord too welcomes the repentance, and not the death, of the sinner.
but you will not bind upon yourselves the heavenly amulet itself, the saving Word, and, trusting the incantation of God, be released from the passions, which are diseases of the soul, and torn away from sin?
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Moral failing and transgression, discussed as forgivable through sincere repentance.
if thou shouldst learn who the rich man is that has no place in the heavens, and in what manner a man, using what he has, might escape both the ill report of wealth and its difficulty as regards life, and might be able to taste the eternal good things—even though he should have, whether through ignorance or weakness or involuntary circumstance, after the seal and the redemption, fallen into certai …
Of the sins already committed, then, God gives forgiveness;
Sāmaveda
The condition of moral/ritual fault from which protection is sought.
Protect us again from sin.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The condition of moral/ritual fault that penance is designed to remove; discussed in terms of concealment, transfer, and destruction.
When the penance (*prāyaścitta* (प्रायश्चित्त)) has been performed and the Brahmin's sin is burned away, I ask in truth, where then does that sin reside?
For they are the physicians for sinners and the knowers of sin, just as accomplished physicians are for the sick who are in pain.
being hidden, it grows.
Slokantara
Moral transgression, whose severity is graded by the status of the one wronged and whose consequence follows the soul after death.
When the life-force is reborn, it is followed by its good and bad deeds;
[Slo_08s-ab] tiryag daśaguṇaṁ pāpaṁ manuṣye śatam eva ca | [Slo_08s-cd] prabhau daśasahasrāṇi anantaṁ munidevayoḥ || 8 ||
A person who quarrels with an animal accrues sin for ten years.