Dear Nina,

thanks. It is indeed the objective of this sutta to discuss the two
types of faults: one with visible effects, di.t.thadhammika, i.e.
affecting the present life, and the other affecting the future life,
samparaayika.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom wrote:

This sutta reminds us of the danger of akusala kamma that can have a
bad result in this life and even more so in a future life. This is not
in order to frighten us, but to exhort us not to waste this precious
time that we are in the human plane where we can develop understanding
of the phenomena of our life and perform kusala kamma.