The Nirvana Sutra teaches the principle of lessening one’s Karmic retribution. If one’s heavy karma from the past is not expiated within this lifetime, one must undergo the sufferings of hell in the future, but if one experiences extreme hardships in this life [because of the Lotus Sutra], the suffering of hell will vanish instantly. And when one dies one will obtain the blessings of the human and heavenly worlds, as well as those of the three vehicles and the one vehicle.
Lessening One’s Karmic Retribution (WND, 199)
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