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**Verse 147**
**Gati Marg Gga/201**
All four types of living beings are born in hell. Beings with excessive beginning and excessive attachment bind hell-life and are born in hells after death. Fainting is attachment.
Hellish beings are countless, which is proven by the countless worlds. There are the most hellish beings in the first hell, and in the second and subsequent hells, there are countless parts of the first hell. The duration of hell-life for a being is at least as long as the final moment, because the hell-life of a being who is born in the animal or human realm after escaping hell and binds hell-life within the shortest lifespan and is born again in hell after death is found to be the final moment. The duration of hell-life for a hellish being is at most countless particle transformations, which is equivalent to infinite time, because after escaping hell, it wanders in the countless parts of the countless particle transformation time of the un-intended paths and the one-sensed beings, and this duration is found when it is born again in hell.
There are hellish beings in these four states of existence: false faith, partially correct faith, partially false faith, and uncontrolled correct faith. There is a contradiction in being born in hell with the state of partially correct faith. Those with correct faith (either destructive or fully realized correct faith) are born in the first earth (hell) after death, but those with correct faith are not born in the second and subsequent earths (hells).
Up to the first hell, beings are born as unconscious, up to the second hell as crawling, up to the third hell as birds, up to the fourth hell as insects, up to the fifth hell as lions, up to the sixth hell as women, up to the seventh hell as fish and humans.
Beings who escape hell are born as womb-born, karma-born, self-born, and fully-realized humans or animals, but those who escape from the seventh hell escape only with false faith and are born as animals. Beings who escape hell do not become Narayana, Prati-Narayana, Balabhadra, or Chakravarti, but they can become Tirthankara after escaping from the first, second, or third hell. Those who escape from the fourth hell become fully-bodied, those who escape from the fifth hell become controlled, those who escape from the sixth hell become country-protectors, and those who escape from the seventh hell rarely attain correct faith. In the first three hells, some attain correct faith through remembering their past lives, some through unbearable pain, and some through the teachings of the gods. In the remaining four hells, hellish beings attain correct faith through remembering their past lives and experiencing pain. In these four hells, there are no teachings of the gods, because the gods only go up to the third hell, not below. In particular, in the statement of the Gati-Pragati Chulika, in the 484th page, 205th sutra, Shri Bhootvali Acharya has written that a human being does not attain correct faith or partially correct faith after escaping from hell.
Hellish beings are self-born, five-sensed, fully-realized, and have a non-physical body.
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