57. Karma which has been made, whether good or evil, must inevitably be suffered. Karma not suffered does not fade away even in tens of millions of ages.

Footnotes

^39:1 This refers to the custom among Brahmins of sitting in a row at meals, and rising together. Whoever gives different food to one than to another is said to break the row also.

^39:2 A bird fabled to live only on rain-drops.

^40:1 A sacred mantra repeated every day by the twice-born caste.

^40:2 A class of evil spirits.