Lonaphala Sutta

Ganges River, India: “Like a Crystal of Salt dropped into the Ganges River.”

Most Ven. U. Dhammajiva Maha Thero conducted a five days residential retreat from end January to the beginning of February 2017.

The Dhamma sermons during the retreat were based on Lonaphala Sutta from Anguttara Nikaya and it explains how to reduce the effects of bad Kamma. The Buddha using a simile of a Salt Crystal explains in the Sutta that the same Kamma can take an undeveloped person to Hell while not making much of an effect on a morally and spiritually developed practitioner of Dhamma.

A PDF of the Sutta from Buddha Jayanthi Tripitaka could be downloaded by clicking here.

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