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## The Sufferings of the Tiryanchagati
**The Sufferings of the Narakas:**
Just as described in the Yoga Shastra, Chapter 4, verse 67, the Narakas are ground in a mill. When they are thirsty, they are thrown into the Vaitarani River, which is filled with boiling hot molten glass or copper. When they want to escape the sun, they are taken to the shade of the Asivan tree, where leaves as sharp as swords fall on them, cutting their bodies into hundreds of pieces, each as small as a sesame seed. They are reminded of their past lives, where they engaged in sexual misconduct with other people's wives, and are forced to embrace the branches of the Salmali tree, which are covered in sharp thorns like vajras, and hot iron dolls. They are reminded of the meat they ate in their past lives, and are fed with their own flesh, cut piece by piece. They are reminded of their past lives where they drank alcohol, and are forced to drink boiling hot molten glass. They are roasted over fire, thrown like clubs, pierced with sharp spears, cooked in a pot, fried in boiling oil, roasted like chickpeas on hot sand, and subjected to thousands of other tortures. These sinful Narakas suffer endlessly in hell, crying and lamenting. Cruel and violent birds like herons and crows tear their bodies apart with their beaks. Their eyes and other senses are pulled out. Their limbs, separated from their bodies, rejoin. In this way, the Narakas suffer great pain and are deprived of even a shred of happiness. They remain in hell for a long time, ranging from ten thousand years to thirty-three Sagaropama years.
**The Sufferings of the Tiryanchagati:**
When a being is born into the Tiryanchagati, many of them take the form of a one-sense being, with a body made of earth. They are dug up with tools like ploughs, crushed under the feet of elephants and horses, drenched in water, burned by fire, tormented by salt, alkali, urine, and other corrosive substances, destroyed in boiling water, baked in the ovens of potters, cooked into pots, bricks, and other objects, turned into mud, and baked into mud bricks. They are heated in fire when gold is melted, and they are struck by hard stones. They are cut by the swift currents of rivers, and they fall apart as mountains. When they are born as an Apkayik, they are scorched by the sun's rays, frozen into ice, dried in the dust, and die when they are mixed with various types of water, boiled in pots, or drunk by thirsty beings. The Agnicayik beings are killed by water and other substances, injured by thunderbolts, and burned by fuel and other things. They suffer pain in the form of being burned, injured, and killed. The Vayukayik beings are killed by fans and other things, and they die constantly due to the combination of cold and hot substances. They are tormented by winds from all directions, including the winds from the mouth, nose, and other parts of the body. They are eaten by snakes and other creatures. The Vanaspatikayik beings are killed by ten types of things: piercing, digestion by fire, friction, being cut, beaten, being sprinkled with alkali, being burned with fire, being fried in boiling oil and water, being burned to ashes by fire, being uprooted by the swift currents of rivers, being broken by storms, and being eaten by other beings. All types of plants are food for all beings. They are constantly tormented by all types of weapons. The two-sense beings suffer from cold, heat, rain, fire, and other things. They are crushed underfoot, eaten by chickens and other birds, swallowed with water, killed by shells, squeezed by leeches, and killed by medicines that are given to kill worms in the stomach. The three-sense beings, such as lice, bedbugs, and fleas, are crushed, pressed, and killed by ants, brooms, and other things. They are trapped in mud, burned by the sun or hot water, and crushed by mats and other things. The four-sense beings, such as flies, mosquitoes, and other creatures, are destroyed by many causes. People who collect honey from bees and wasps throw stones and other things at them. They are killed by fans and other things. Flies, spiders, and other creatures are eaten by lizards.