Swami Sivananda mentions various torments and tortures that take place within the hell realms, a lot of them are graphic and highly disturbing, for example;
Swami Sivananda mentions that there are hundreds and thousands of such hells, too many to describe, anyhow just these descriptions of hell are indeed terrifying
We have to suffer in one way or another, voluntarily or involuntarily, what are the key differences? We know that the suffering in hell is really without fruit since we once again re-emerge bound to the wheel of birth and death where more suffering awaits, then we have voluntary suffering where we transcend this wheel of birth and death, thus overcoming the types of suffering experienced while bound. However what I am asking is; while in hell we suffer in various ways depending on our actions/defects, each action/defect results a different form of suffering, however on the spiritual path in which way do we suffer for those same actions/defects?
In some of these descriptions of suffering in hell, one has to endure various tortures depending on the mistake that one made, we are paying karma for our past negative actions, thoughts and emotions. However this is just for paying the karma, then we have the ego which we created and which compels us to commit those actions. Is the ego simultaneously disintegrated within those spheres of torture or is that process reserved to the ninth sphere?
Thank you.
Those men who indulge in passions are eaten here (Maharaurava) by carnivorous (flesh-eating) animals.
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Those who worship gods by offering human victims, are thrown into a hell where they are cut to slices and eaten by devils, but even then they do not die but only experience pain.
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Those householders who get angry with guests and look at them with cruel eyes as if they would burn them are plucked out their eyes after death by vultures possessing bills hard like adamantine rock.
Swami Sivananda mentions that there are hundreds and thousands of such hells, too many to describe, anyhow just these descriptions of hell are indeed terrifying
We have to suffer in one way or another, voluntarily or involuntarily, what are the key differences? We know that the suffering in hell is really without fruit since we once again re-emerge bound to the wheel of birth and death where more suffering awaits, then we have voluntary suffering where we transcend this wheel of birth and death, thus overcoming the types of suffering experienced while bound. However what I am asking is; while in hell we suffer in various ways depending on our actions/defects, each action/defect results a different form of suffering, however on the spiritual path in which way do we suffer for those same actions/defects?
In some of these descriptions of suffering in hell, one has to endure various tortures depending on the mistake that one made, we are paying karma for our past negative actions, thoughts and emotions. However this is just for paying the karma, then we have the ego which we created and which compels us to commit those actions. Is the ego simultaneously disintegrated within those spheres of torture or is that process reserved to the ninth sphere?
Thank you.