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## Hellish Torment: A Study
**Verse 6:**
The vultures, with their sharp beaks, tear at the bound, their heads thrown back in agony. Their bodies are firmly gripped, their tongues ripped out, their flesh consumed.
**Verse 1:**
The vultures, with their sharp beaks, tear at the bound, their heads thrown back in agony. Their bodies are firmly gripped, their flesh consumed, their tongues ripped out.
**Verse 7:**
Their bodies, mangled and torn, are pierced by sharp thorns, their bones shattered. Even a moment of respite is a rare luxury, their suffering unending.
**Verse 1:**
Their bodies, mangled and torn, are pierced by sharp thorns, their bones shattered. Even a moment of respite is a rare luxury, their suffering unending.
**Verse 8:**
This is the terrifying hell where countless beings suffer. Only those who have abandoned truth and accumulated a mountain of sins find themselves in this abyss.
**Verse 1:**
This is the terrifying hell where countless beings suffer. Only those who have abandoned truth and accumulated a mountain of sins find themselves in this abyss.
**Commentary:**
Those who are consumed by attachment and aversion, who engage in grand enterprises and accumulate vast possessions, who kill sentient beings, consume flesh, and indulge in other sinful acts, who desire a life of unrestrained indulgence, and who commit acts of violence, deceit, and other transgressions, will, upon the ripening of their karma, be plunged into the terrifying darkness of hell.
Here, their bodies are invisible to their own eyes, their vision clouded like that of an owl in the daytime, despite possessing the knowledge of clairvoyance.
The scriptures describe this state:
"O Lord, how far can a being in hell, marked by the black karma, see with their clairvoyance?"
"Gautama, they cannot see very far, only a small area. They can only see a small area, and their vision is limited."
These beings, burdened by their heavy karma, are plunged into the fiery depths of hell, where the heat is more intense than a mountain of burning coals. They are unable to renounce the pleasures of the senses, and thus they suffer unimaginable torment.
It is said:
"Those who do not renounce the pleasures of the senses will fall into hell, where flames of fire rage and where suffering reigns supreme."
In hell, the righteous gods trample upon the chests of the damned, their mouths spewing blood. They are torn apart by sharp iron saws, their bodies ripped in two. The cries of the tortured fill the air, their bones crackle and shatter as they are roasted alive. They are pierced with skewers, their bodies lifted high. This is a place of terrifying sounds, impenetrable darkness, and foul stench.
The damned are imprisoned in chains, their bodies mangled and broken, their flesh dripping with blood and fat. Their heads are severed, their bodies dismembered. Their tongues are ripped out by burning tongs. Their bodies are torn and shredded against thorny trees. They are denied even a moment of respite, their suffering unending.