No.301 - Kamma

Kamma

“..Grain, wealth, silver, gold,

Or whatever other possessions there are,

Slaves, workers, messengers, and those who live as one's dependants:

Without taking anything one must go, everything must be left behind.

“But what one has done by body, or by speech or mind:

This is what is truly one's own; this one takes when one goes;

This is what follows one along; Like a shadow that never departs.

“Therefore one should do what is good;

As a collection for the future life.

Merits are the support for living beings;

When they arise] in the other world.”

The Book Of The Gradual Sayings (Anguttara-Nikaya)Vol. III (The Books Of The Fives And Sixes), translated by Hare, E.M., The Pali Text Society, Oxford, 2008, P.294