Part 1b.3a - The brief teaching of the nature

Now the fruition of these is explained:

With bad object, motive, thoughts, and their application,
As for the fruitions of the ten unwholesome actions,
There are ripening, accord with their causes, power, and action.

When these unwholesome actions are produced by an unwholesome object, motivation, thought, and application, a fruition ripens in accord with the causes and the dominant nature or power. So it is said in the great texts. Moreover, in the oral instructions, the fruition of action is additionally explained.