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86
Tattvarthasutra
[3. 1-6]
The leshya of the Ratnaprabha is of the color of a pigeon. In the Sharkarprabha, there is also a pigeon leshya, but it is more intensely trilinear than the Ratnaprabha. In the Valukaprabha, there is a blue leshya resembling a pigeon. In the Pankaprabha, there is a blue leshya. In the Dhumaprabha, there is a blue-black leshya, in the Tamaprabha, there is a black leshya, and in the Mahatamaprabha, there is also a black leshya, but it is the most intense among them.
Results - Color, smell, taste, touch, sound, and other various types of material phenomena are increasingly inauspicious in all seven realms.
In the bodies of hell beings across the seven realms, due to the rise of inauspicious karma, there are increasingly inauspicious characteristics concerning color, smell, taste, touch, sound, and location, all of which are impure and horrifying.
Pain - The pain of beings in the hells of the seven realms is increasingly severe. In the first three realms, the pain is of heat, in the fourth, it is of warmth and coolness, in the fifth, it is of mild warmth and mild coolness, in the sixth, it is cold, and in the seventh, it is very cold pain. This heating and cooling pain is so intense that if hell beings were to come into the terrible heat or cold of the mortal world, they could fall into deep sleep due to great pleasure.
Activity - Their activities are also increasingly inauspicious. They, overwhelmed by suffering, strive for liberation, but it results in the opposite. In gathering the means for happiness, they obtain only means of suffering. They begin to create something auspicious through activities, but end up producing only inauspiciousness.
Question - What is the purpose of stating the leshya and other increasingly inauspicious states as eternal?
Answer - Eternal, meaning continuous. Due to the rise of movement, species, body, and significant karmas, in the hell realms, the leshya and such states remain inauspicious throughout life; there is not even a moment's difference, nor are they ever auspicious.
Firstly, in hell, due to inherent nature, there is indeed the terrible suffering of cold and heat, but the suffering of hunger and thirst is even more terrible. Hunger torments so much that it does not calm down even with complete consumption, rather it intensifies further. Thirst is such that no matter how much water is consumed, there is no satisfaction. Additionally, the immense suffering arises from mutual hatred and fighting. Just as the crow and owl and the snake and mongoose are natural enemies, likewise, hell beings are born enemies. Therefore, upon seeing one another, they fight like dogs, bite, and burn with anger; that is why they are called those who generate mutual suffering.
In hell, three types of pain are considered, which arise from inherent nature and