The Culakammavibhanga-Sutta, a discourse dedicated to the theme of karmic retribution establishes a clear link between presently undertaken deeds and their karmic effects.
According to this discourse, killing will lead to short life-span in future lives; harming others will result in becoming oneself diseased and sick; irritability causes ugliness; stinginess leads to poverty; and arrogance brings rebirth in lowly conditions.
- Bhikkhu Analayo
The karmic retribution for unwholesome deeds, described in the Culakammavibhanga-Sutta, extends not only to rebirth to the human realm but can also to rebirth in hell.
Detailed description of sufferings that await the evildoer on rebirth in hell are given in the Devadutta-Sutta.
- Bhikkhu Analayo
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