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(Q.) Bhante ! Are infernal beings alone born among infernal beings or are non-infernal beings born among infernal beings ?
(Ans.) Gautam ! Only infernal beings are born among infernal beings; non-infernal beings are not born among infernal beings.
This statement means that the life-span of an animal or human being destined to be born among infernal beings after its death ends here only. It only has the bondage of life-span as an infernal being. The period of one, two or more Samayas that it takes in reaching the infernal world is deductible from his infernal-life-span only. Therefore, the being destined to infernal world experiences infernal-life-span on the way as well. Thus even during transition it is an infernal being. From the precisionistic view point or that related to specific point or period of time (Rijusutra naya) this statement that only infernal beings and not non-infernal beings are born among infernal beings' is correct. This also applies to the birth of beings belonging to all other dandaks (places of suffering).
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