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3 âciõõa-kamma
Habitual kamma which is performed regularly, or it may
be a kamma which is performed once and is recollected
and remembered all the time.
4 Kañattà-kamma
Unspecified kamma which is done once and soon
forgotten.
Now if we have any garuka-kamma, it will produce its result
when we die and condition our next life.
If we do not have any garuka-kamma, which is often the case,
then we must rely on asa¤¤à-kamma to condition our next life.
To get a good asa¤¤à-kamma, sons and daughters or relatives
and friends should arrange wholesome deeds such as offering
robes to monks or listening to Dhamma-preaching for the person
on his or her death-bed. The dying person should also be
reminded of his past good deeds.
A good example is Venerable Soõa’s father in Ceylon. The
father made a living by hunting. When he was too old to go
hunting, he became a monk in his son’s monastery. Soon he fell
ill and had a vision that hell hounds were coming up the hill to
bite him. He was frightened, and so he asked his son to drive
away the hounds.
His son, who was an arahat, knew that his father was having
a gati-nimitta to be cast away in niraya. He asked his disciples to
gather flowers quickly and spread them all over the pagoda in
the monastery. Then they carried his father together with his
bed to the pagoda. Venerable Soõa reminded his father to pay
homage to the pagoda and to rejoice in the offering of flowers
on his behalf.