Shikshasamuccaya 319

319

abhidhyā-vipākam āha | atha paśyati riktaṃ tuccham a-sārakaṃ karma-kṛtaṃ bahu-draviṇaṃ para-parigṛhītaṃ tasya karma-codita-vyāmohitasya + evaṃ bhavati | mama + idaṃ syād iti | tataḥ sa nārakas tena + eva dhāvati yena tad dravyaṃ | tasya + abhidhyā-ākhya-mānasasya + a-kuśalasya + āsevita-bhāvita-bahulī-kṛtasya tat-phalaṃ yad asau narake viparītaṃ paśyati | tasya + evaṃ paśyato * abhidhyā-bahulasya haste śastraṃ prādur-bhavati sa tena dhāvati | teṣām apy anyeṣāṃ nārakāṇāṃ haste śastrāṇi prādur-bhavanti | sa taiḥ saha śastreṇa yudhyate yāvat tathā kartyate yathā sarṣapa-phala-mātram api na bhavati māṃsam asya śarīre tathā + asthi-kaṅkāla-avaśeṣaḥ kriyate || pe ||

He states the karmic fruition of covetousness: 'Then he sees empty, hollow, and unsubstantial wealth made by karma, held by others. Confused, impelled by karma, he thinks: "May this be mine!" Then that hell-dweller runs right toward where that property is. That fruition of unwholesome mental action known as covetousness—cultivated, developed, and practiced repeatedly—is that he perceives things erroneously in hell. As he looks in this way, full of covetousness, a weapon appears in his hand, and he runs with it. Weapons also appear in the hands of those other hell-dwellers. He fights with them with the weapon, until he is hacked so that not even a mustard seed's amount of flesh remains on his body, and only a skeleton of bones is left.' And so forth.