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
You want: long life, health, beauty, power, riches, high birth, wisdom? Or even some of these things? They do not appear by chance. It is not someone's luck that they are healthy, or another's lack of it that he is stupid. Though it may not be clear to us now, all such inequalities among human beings (and all sorts of beings) come about because of the kamma they have made individually. Each person reaps his own fruits. So if one is touched by short life, sickliness, ugliness, insignificance, poverty, low birth or stupidity and one does not like these things, no need to just accept that that is the way it is. The future need not be like that provided that one makes the right kind of kamma now. Knowing what kamma to make and what not to make is the mark of a wise man. It is also the mark of one who is no longer drifting aimlessly but has some direction in life and some control over the sort of events that will occur.
- Bhikkhu Khantipalo
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