Viyahapannatti 18.3.731

18.3.731

"Venerable Sir, is there any difference in the evil karma of living beings that has been done, that is being done, and that will be done?"
"Yes, there is."
"Venerable Sir, why is it said: 'Is there any difference in the evil karma of living beings that has been done, that is being done, and that will be done?'"
"Mākandikaputra, just as if a man grasps a bow, having grasped [it] grasps an arrow, having grasped [it] takes up a stance, having taken up a stance draws the arrow back to his ear, having drawn [it] shoots it up into the sky; is it not so, Mākandikaputra, that as that arrow is shot up into the sky, it moves differently, shakes differently, wavers differently, throbs differently, rubs differently, is agitated differently, accelerates differently, and transforms into various states differently?"
"Yes, Lord, it moves differently, up to transforms into various states differently."
"For that reason, Mākandikaputra, it is said: 'It moves differently, up to transforms into various states differently.'"
"Venerable Sir, [is there any difference] in the evil karma of inhabitants of hell that has been done?" It is just the same. And so on up to celestial beings in celestial abodes.