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Taishang Ganying Pian 19: The text’s account of consequences
English rendering of the Japanese reader’s section 19. The 24 divisions are this site’s editorial divisions, not original chapters.
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English rendering
For faults such as these, the deity governing life reduces its allotments according to gravity. When the allotment is exhausted, death comes. If responsibility remains unpaid at death, calamity extends to descendants.
Reading note from this site
This translates the original’s religious worldview. A person’s or family’s illness and misfortune are not evidence of ancestral wrongdoing.
Chinese source passage
如是等罪，司命隨其輕重，奪其紀算。算盡則死；死有餘責，乃殃及子孫。
Based on the classical text and this site’s independently prepared Japanese rendering. Classical source edition