Doing Much Good & little evil creates Human Being Rebirth!
Whether deva,
asura or human beings, one is short-lived
because of killing
done in the past or long-lived because of avoidance of all killing in the past!
Leprosy, wasting, fever, madness & other diseases of human beings exist
today because of past human evil of killing, harming & chaining creatures...
Whoever is a thief of others goods & gives nothing whatsoever, will never
acquire wealth, however much he works... Whoever takes wealth not given
yet gives gifts is reborn after death first wealthy, but then later poor...
Any one who is neither a thief, nor a giver, nor an exceeding miser surely
obtains lasting wealth, though only with great difficulty... That man who
is never a thief of others goods, generous & free from avarice, easily &
swiftly obtains many rich possessions, which cannot be stolen... Whoever
gives food is always reborn in comfort, given long life, beauty & strength,
is wise & avoids disease... Whoever would offer clothes is reborn modest,
beautiful, splendid, liked by all & receives many garments & ornaments...
Whoever gives houses here with joyful heart, for that good being there
will arise future deva palaces rich in all possible pleasures of the senses...
Whatsoever men offer bridges, sandals and so on are always comfortable
in the next life & they obtain the best of vehicles & means of transport...
Those who build freshwater wells, tanks, ponds are reborn comfortable,
free from heat, sweat and thirst... Whoever offers a garden, the refuge
for all beings, will be reborn worshipped with flowers, rich & glorious...
Erudition is obtained by giving knowledge, & wisdom by giving analysis...
By giving medicine & safety, one is reborn free from illness & danger...
By giving lamps one becomes clear-sighted, by giving musical sounds one
becomes sweet-voiced, and by giving bed & seat one wins future ease...
Whoever here on earth gives milk, nutriments, vegetables & fine edibles
strengthening the body, becomes strong, beautiful, wealthy & very old...
By giving a maiden one obtains sensual pleasures and a future retinue...
By giving land one is reborn as prosperous and rich in money and grain...
Whichever return is desired whether flowers, money, or beauty, then
that itself should be given to whoever wants it... Then one will get it!!!
Whoever gives only for the egoistic purpose of later gain spoils his gift,
One who gives for the sake of heaven, out of fear, for fame or for own
comfort, or with half-hearted unhappy motivation reaps spoiled fruit...
Whoever gives something for the joy of others, warm, full of sympathy,
happy, altruistic, generous, not only for own good, reaps unspoiled fruit...
Anything whatsoever that is given to another at the proper time in the
proper way returns many-fold in many future lives in just the same way...
Not oppressing others, giving at the right time what is needed & desired,
without spoiling the fruit by regretting, one can adorn oneself with the
future effects of such Noble giving, in fine harmony with the Dhamma...
Since there verily is winning of future fruit from gifts being well given,
giving, and generosity becomes the most important and proximate cause
of all luxury that results from action. Giving causes richness as Effect!
Whoever keeps away from anothers wife, will obtain a beautiful wife!
Whoever with own wife avoids the wrong place & time becomes a man!
But that man who does not stop his horny thoughts of others wives and
who commits adultery becomes a homosexual if light, or woman if grave!
That woman who disgusts being female, is pure in moral, with little lust,
and always longs for manhood, will attain future manhood accordingly...
Whoever rightly enters upon a reclusive Noble life, all correct & pure,
becomes splendid, very blessed, wealthy & adored even by the
devas...
Avoiding drinking, drugs & inebriation one is reborn with clear memory,
neither bewildered nor confused! A truthful person is reborn glorious,
provided with great security & ensured... Whoever causes no division,
even between those already split, is reborn strong-minded with faithful
followers... Whoever always carries out the Teachers bidding in a joyful
mind and who teaches what is advantageous & also what is detrimental,
becomes one whose words are welcome... One will be downed & humbled
by disrespecting others, but elevated & famed through respecting those
who are worthy of respect. Those who enjoy contempt for others, are
treacherous and untruthful, & take great pride in their beauty become
hunchbacks and dwarves. Envying other's skills, one will become stupid...
Unpleasant & rude to the pleasant & polite, one becomes dumb & ugly...
Whoever is angry at friendly words is reborn deaf, mute &
bewildered... Generalizing: Having given good, one gets pleasure. Having given
evil bad,
one gets suffering... Suffering is the result & fruit of own bad behaviour,
while comfort, pleasure & ease is the resulted fruit of admirable action!
Most common is a mixture of pleasure & pain as the resulted effect of a
mixture of own past both good and bad mental, verbal & bodily action...
Know that every event match & accord with the actions that caused it!!!
All being & becoming is thus a complexity of cause & effect playing out...
Action and Reaction! Cause and Effect! Kamma and Fruit! Determines all!
Source (edited extract): Pańcagatidīpanī by Ashvaghosa &
Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
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