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(3) The third reason is the Vedniya karma (the pain bearing karma) of the hellishing being of his previous life or lives. The period for which such karmas the fruit of which is to be undergone in hellish state have been performed, he shall have to experience their fruit. Without undergoing the fruit of those karmas (actions), he cannot go out from hell, just as a spider cannot get away from her cobweb.
(4) The fourth reason is the life-span or the age of the hellish being. According to Sthiti Pad of Prajnapana Sutra and Anuyogdvar Sutra the minimum life-span of a hellish being is ten thousand years and the maximum life-span (which is of hellish being in seventh hell) is 33 Sagaropam. Their life-span can never be reduced nor increased. They cannot die before completing their life-span.
So Keshi Kumar Shraman says that hellish being cannot come out from the hell even if he desires to see his relatives. These causes have been mentioned in Sthanang Sutra also.
In this aphorism, king Pradeshi gives the factual example of his grandmother. He says that 'she was of religious thought and of religious conduct. According to the philosophical principles, she must have gone to heaven. It can be admitted that in hell, a living-being is not independent and therefore he cannot come out even if he is keen for it. But in the heaven, the gods are independent and free to execute their plan. So the grandmother could come. Why then my grandmother has not come so far?'
While clarifying this doubt (query) Keshi Kumar Shraman first of all gave the example of entering a toilet while going to the temple. It has been clarified that in comparison with the fragrant unique environment of heaven, the human world is more foul-smelling than even a toilet. Here also four reasons have been given for the gods not coming to human world
(1) The first reason is the engrossment in sensual enjoyment and pleasures of celestial world by a newly born god. They become so much absorbed in the pleasures of that place that even having in their mind that they may visit human world, they are not able to discard the attachment to the enjoyments there. They, therefore, are not able to leave the heavenly world.
(2) The second reason is that ordinarily after going to heavenly abode, the relationship with friends and relatives breaks down; the love for them
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