Severe pain, loss of possessions, bodily injury, serious illness or mental derangement.

This verse lists the first five of the ten consequences mentioned in verse 137. They are: vedanaṃ pharusaṃ (severe pain, violent sensation), jāniṃ (loss, ruin), sarīrassa bhedanaṃ (bodily injury, physical fragmentation), garukaṃ ābādhaṃ (serious illness) and cittakkhepaṃ (mental derangement, insanity).

The list covers the principal areas of existence: the sensory (pain), the economic (loss), the physical (injury), the organic (illness) and the mental (insanity). No aspect of life is outside the reach of consequences.

The description is not a divine threat but an observation about the dynamics of karma. Violence against the innocent unleashes a process of deterioration that can manifest in any of these forms. It is not that one “deserves” the suffering but that one generates the conditions for it to arise.

In the yogic tradition, this list would correspond to the kleśa (afflictions) that manifest as karmic consequences: latent tendencies that activate when conditions are appropriate.