Shikshasamuccaya 319

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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.