(“evil”) A word sometimes used as an
adjective to describe people and
actions, but most often used as a noun,
either to denote a particular deed as evil
or to refer to the collective evil one has
accumulated through the bad deeds in
one’s karmic career. Since, according to
karma theory, all one’s deeds will eventually come to fruition, the evil that one
has done is seen as already existing,
even if only in a potential state. The
opposite of pap is punya, the most general term denoting religious merit.