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KARMAS AND THEIR FRUITS
Page 252. First of all, of course, our present body, like every future one, together with all its senseorgans and mental faculties; thus what we have called before the six-sense-machine is exclusively a product of our previous action, in-as-much as it has brought about the grasping in the material womb; This not, ye disciples, your body, nor the body and another, rather must it be regarded as the deed of the past, the deed that has come to fruition, the deed that is willing actualized. That has become perceptible. (S. N., II p. 64.)
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The eye, ye monks, is to be recognized and regarded as determined through former action, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind, ye monks; to be recognized and regarded as formed and determined through former action (S. N. II. p. 72.)
P. 256. These, ye disciples, a man has won insight with the body, has practised himself in virtue, has developed his mind, has awakened knowledge, is broad-minded, magnanimous, dwelling in the immeasurable. In such a man, ye disciples, the same small crime which he has committed ripens even during his life-time.
Note. In the above passage, the word kamma is translated by deed while it really means karmic molecules.
(6) Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature in Eastern Turkestan by A. F. R. Hoernl (1916).
Sata-panchâ sika stotra by Matricheta.
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