Origin of Sin and Virtue

I am Kedi Ganapati, a foodie, and since food is the first priority of most of the people, I am writing a summary of basic rules of sin and virtue with examples related to food so that more and more people can understand it.

Rule No. 1 – “Due to every deed of a human, human will either attain sin or virtue”. – According to this rule, if a human does any kind of mental, intellectual or physical deed, then the human will get sin or virtue as a result of that deed.

Example 1.1 – When a human imagines delicious food at the mental level, or plans a feast at the intellectual level, or eats food at the physical level, then his physical, mental, and intellectual deed related to eating make him commit sins and commit virtues.

Rule No. 2 – “Virtue will be attained by doing work at the right time, right place and with right intention.”. According to this rule, when any deed is done at the right time, when the place of deed is right, and the intention to do the deed is also right, then the result of that deed is the attainment of virtue.

Example 2.1 – A person is working in his workplace; he feels very hungry at 11 o’clock. According to the rules of the workplace, lunchtime is at 1 o’clock, so that person controls his hunger and eats at the right time at 1 o’clock. According to the rules of the workplace, the place to eat is the canteen, so that person eats sitting in the canteen. That person has to eat quickly and then return to his work, so that person sits alone with a right intention and eats quickly. In this way, by eating at the right time and right place and with the right intention, that person gets virtue as a result of his deeds.

Rule No. 3 – “Sin will be committed by deeds done at wrong time, wrong place and with wrong intention”. – According to this rule, when any deed is done at the wrong time, when the place of deed is also wrong and when the intention of doing the deed is also wrong, then sins are committed as a result of that deed.

Example 3.1 – A person is working in his workplace. He feels very hungry at 11 o’clock. According to the rules of the workplace, lunch time is at 1 o’clock. However, he does not control his hunger and eats at the wrong time of 11 o’clock. According to the rules of the workplace, the place to eat is the canteen. But instead of sitting in the canteen, he eats at wrong place. He did not want to share his food with anyone, but wanted to tempt his co-worker with his delicious food. Therefore, he sits alone and eats with wrong intention. Thus, by eating at wrong time, in wrong place and with wrong intention, he gets sin as a result of his deeds.

Rule No. 4 – “A human will commit sin as a result of some deeds, but that sin will have no value; no misfortune of any kind will be caused by that sin”. – According to this rule, when a human does something at wrong time and place, but his intention is right, then that human will incur sins as a result of his deeds, but there will be no value for that sin, no misfortune of any kind will be received due to that sin.

Example 4.1 – Children and old people, due to their lack of discretion and physical changes, eat food at wrong places and wrong times, but their intentions are right. Therefore, by eating food at wrong places and wrong times, they receive sins as a result of their deeds, but because their intentions are right, there is no value for that sin; they do not receive any kind of misfortune due to that sin.

Rule No. 5 – “A human will gain virtue as a result of some deeds, but that virtue will have no value, no kind of fortune will be gained from that virtue”. According to this rule, when a human does a right action at the right time and at the right place, but his intention is wrong, or the intention is right, but the time and place are wrong, then that human gets virtue as a result of the right action, but there is no value for that virtue, no kind of fortune is obtained from that virtue.

Example 5.1 – A rich man goes to a temple to have darshan. He eats food in a Bhandara near the temple and does not pay for his food because the food is free for the devotees; then, because he eats the food at the right time and with the right intention, that person attains virtue, but because the place is wrong, that virtue has no value, and that virtue does not bring any kind of luck and good fortune. For a rich man, a free bhandara is a wrong place, and to make that place right, he has to pay for his food.

Rule No. 6 – “The bigger a human’s deeds, the more sin or virtue he will acquire.”. – According to this rule, when a person’s deeds have excessive good and bad effects on humans, living beings and nature, then the person will receive more sins and virtues as a result of his actions.

Example 6.1 – A gentleman collects 1 kg of grain from each house of his village with his divine army to provide food to 1000 people in an emergency area and with that grain he provides food to 1000 people in an emergency area. The act of that gentleman has a very good impact on 1000 helpless people and hence that gentleman gets a lot of virtue.

Example 6.2 – An evil man takes his devilish army and occupies the farms and granaries of 1000 people in an emergency area and loots the grains from each farm and granary, and spreads chaos in the emergency area to get the grains. The deeds of that evil man have a very bad impact on 1000 helpless people, so that evil man gets a lot of sin.

Rule No. 7 – “The smaller the deed of a human, the less sin and virtue he will get”. – According to this rule, when the good and bad effects of a human’s deed are less on human, creatures and nature, then the human will get less sin and virtue as a result of his deed.

Example 7.1 – A gentleman provides food to a helpless person in an emergency, the action of that gentleman has a good effect on only one helpless person, hence that gentleman receives less virtue according to his actions.

Example 7.2 – In an emergency situation, an evil person snatches food from a helpless person and eats it himself. Due to the actions of that evil person, only one helpless person is bad affected, hence, that evil person incurs less sin as per his actions.

Rule No. 8 – “No single deed will give only virtue or only sin in all situations”. – According to this rule, no single deed is such that it will give only virtue or only sin in any situation and circumstance. The deed which can give virtue if done at the right time, right place and with right intention, the same deed can give sin if done at the wrong time, wrong place and with wrong intention.

Example 8.1 – A patriot soldier enters the enemy camp in a war situation, lures an enemy soldier with a bribe and extra money, and includes him in his plan, and together they mix poison in the food of the camp, due to which most of the enemy soldiers are killed due to eating poison. A patriot and a traitor both do the same deed, but for the patriot soldier, doing that deed is right and righteous, but for that enemy soldier, doing that deed is wrong, unrighteous, and treasonous; hence the patriot soldier gets virtue for killing enemy soldiers by mixing poison in the food of the enemy camp; on the other hand, that traitor soldier gets sin for killing his own soldiers by mixing poison in the food of his national camp.

Rule No. 9 – “If a human ignores or avoids doing the right deeds at the right time and right place, he will attain sin.”. – According to this rule, when a person is capable of doing a deed yet avoids doing that deed at the right time and right place or refuses to do that deed, then due to not doing the right deed at the right time and right place, that human commits sin.

Example 9.1 – A group of 4 friends goes to the forest for a picnic. Out of the 4 friends, 3 friends cook food. One friend who knew how to cook still does not help in cooking and created a fake emotion of tiredness to avoid cooking. The friend who does not help in cooking attains sin due to not doing the right deed at the right time and right place.

Rule No. 10 – “Only when a human has enough accumulated virtue, will he be able to experience fortune; if he does not have enough accumulated virtue, he will not be able to experience fortune” – According to this rule, the situation and circumstances of luck and good fortune keep arising in a human’s life, but only when a human has enough accumulated virtue, he is able to take advantage of that situation and circumstance of luck and good fortune, and when a human does not have enough accumulated virtue, then he is not able to take advantage of his luck and good fortune.

Example 10.1 – Two friends are walking on the road. Both of them find a 500 rupee note lying on the way. Both take the 500 rupees note and go to a hotel to have delicious food. One boy tastes the delicious food comfortably, the other boy instead of eating keeps arguing with the waiter and in the end, he is not able to eat properly due to mental restlessness. Both of them had the fortune of eating delicious food for free, but one friend had enough accumulated virtue that he could spend his virtue and enjoy his fortune, and the other friend could not enjoy his fortune because he did not have enough virtue.

Rule No. 11 – “Only when a human has enough accumulated sins, will he be able to experience misfortune; if he does not have enough accumulated sins, he will not be able to experience misfortune.” – According to this rule, in a human’s life, situations and circumstances of misfortune keep arising continuously, but only when a human has accumulated enough sins, he is harmed by that situation and circumstance, and when a human does not have accumulated enough sins, then that human does not suffer any harm from his misfortune.

Example 11.1 – Four friends go to a deserted seashore to have fun. After having fun, they sit down to eat the food they had brought from home. Suddenly a strong wind blows and the sand from the sea gets into the food of three of the four friends, but sand does not get into the food of one friend. The food of those three friends gets contaminated and they are unable to enjoy the food and also lose the desire to eat anything else, but the friend whose food is not contaminated enjoys the food to the fullest. All those four friends had to experience misfortune, but one friend did not have enough sin, so that friend did not have to experience misfortune.

Rule No. 12 – “The value of every sin and virtue will be different, the value of some sins and virtues will be zero, then some sins and virtues will have a certain value.” – According to this rule, every deed leads to sin or virtue, and the value of every sin and virtue is different. Some sins and virtues have no value, while some sins and virtues have a fair value.

Example 12.1 – A person feels hungry, he goes to a hotel and eats food. Due to eating food at the right time, he gets virtue, but that virtue has no value. The same person moves forward after eating food, then on the way he sees a mentally ill person, who can neither do any work to get food, nor can ask for food from anyone. He feeds that hungry mentally ill person to his fill, due to which he gets virtue, and he gets the certain value of that virtue. That mentally ill person eats food in a wrong way, due to which some food gets wasted, as a result that mentally ill person gets sin, but that sin has no value. After some time, a beggar snatches the leftover food from that mentally ill person, and does violence to him, that beggar gets sin, and that sin has a certain value.