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Hellish suffering is produced by remembering the study of hellish states, thus it is well said that the karma of the beings is the burden they bear, as a result of the fruition of that karma. ||26|| And another thing -
_Commentary - In this human life, the man who is inclined to cheat others, cheats himself. He deprives his soul by harming other beings for the sake of a little insignificant pleasure. As a result, he takes birth in many births, hundreds of thousands of times, as a fisherman who catches fish, a tiger hunter, and other low castes. In those births, he is greedy for worldly pleasures. He acts contrary to virtuous deeds. As a result, he goes to a terrible and very fearful hell. The beings in hell, suffering from their karma, live for a long time, causing pain to each other.
The sutrakar reveals the reason for this, saying that the being who has done heinous, hateful, and even more hateful karma in his previous birth, with such determination, receives the same kind of pain and suffering. That pain is also self-inflicted. It is also inflicted by others, and it is also both self-inflicted and inflicted by others. Those who were meat-eaters in their previous birth are fed their own flesh cooked in fire. Those who drank meat juice in their previous birth are given their own blood and pus to drink, and they are also given molten lead to drink. The fish-killers and hunters of previous births, who killed fish and deer, etc., are killed and cut in the same way. Those who spoke falsely have their tongues cut off, reminding them of their past deeds. Those who stole the wealth of others in their previous birth have their limbs cut off. Those who were adulterers have their testicles cut off and are made to embrace a thorny tree. Similarly, those who were great accumulators, great hoarders, angry, proud, and deceitful are given the same kind of torture, reminding them of all that. Therefore, it is rightly said that one has to suffer the consequences of one's actions.
_Commentary - The unrighteous people, having earned sins, dwell in hell, which is devoid of desired and beloved things, and is full of foul smell, bad touch, flesh and blood, etc.
_Commentary - The unrighteous, due to their unrighteous actions, having earned sins through the doors of violence, falsehood, theft, etc., dwell in a foul-smelling place. What kind of place is it? - They are devoid of objects of desire, beautiful things, and various kinds of excellence. They dwell in hell, or they are polluted by those who pollute them, such as mother and son.
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