Prior or later evil action
makes present evil action (Kamma) worsen!
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Regarding the effects of actions, Ananda, as to the person here who kills
living beings,
who takes what is not given, who misconducts himself in sensual pleasures, who
speaks
false, who speaks divisively, who speaks aggressively, who speaks idle & empty
gossip,
who is envious & jealous, who is of ill will, and who holds wrong views and who
at the
breakup of the body, right after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation, a dreadful
destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells: Either
earlier - prior to this -
such one also did evil actions to be felt as painful, or later - after this -
such one also
did evil actions to be felt as pain, or at the death-moment such one entered &
maintained
wrong views! Because of one or more of these, right
after death, such one is reborn in
a bad state of deprivation, a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or
even in
the hells. And since such one furthermore has here also now in the
present killed living
beings, taken what is not given, misconducted himself in sensual pleasures,
spoken false,
spoken divisively, spoken aggressively, and spoken empty & idle gossip, and
since such
one is envious & jealous, and since such one is of ill will, since such one and
holds wrong
views, such one will experience the result of that either here and now, or too
in such one's
next rebirth, or too in some subsequent later existence...
For details on the mechanics
of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_Action_(kamma)_is_Delayed.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
