Hell for Me I Dare Not even Think of

Author(s): Vimalprabhvijay
Publisher: Vimalprabhvijayji

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know, I convey it accordingly to you. Do not have a doubt in it." Hearing this Akampit bowed to the God and asked a question, "Oh Merciful God! If there are lives in Hell, why they donot come here ? King Pradeshi too, had once questioned Keshi Gandhar, "My grandfather was a great sinner and a great atheist. I had told him, if you go to Hell, let me know about the sufferings in Hell. But though my grandfather has died years ago, but he has not yet returned to me, since he has not come back. I believe that there is no such Hell." Keshi Gandhar then explained the King by giving an example, " For instance, a man leaves his house saying he would return within some time, at the same time your Queen also goes to stroll around at some lonely place. If that man, seeing your lonely queen, gets tempted and rapes your Queen. The Queen keeps on screaming, suddenly your soldiers fortunately hears the screams of the Queen and catches the culprit man and brings him to your palace. What would you do to him? You would definitely hang him. Now imagine, even if that man pray to you in merciful manner to leave him to go and meet his wife and children at home and promise to you to come before you on the next day, whether you would release him? No. Never. Hell is similar to this, beneath the earth in Adholok. Similarly Paramadhãmees in Hell would not let the great sinners escape from Hell and it's torturous sufferings ? Paramadhãmees do enjoy punishing the sinners lives in Hell, so would they let the sinners escape? Oh Pradeshi ! So how could your grandfather return from Hell to even tell you his sufferings?"
some are of high i.e. extreme category. You better understand it clearly that humanbeings, Tiryanch, (birds and animals) do suffer the pains of hunger, thirst, breaking, piercement, death etc., but they cannot be called as pains of Hell as they are 'low category pains. They do enjoy some happiness too. But in Hell, there are pains of high category. Here, a person enjoys happiness, which are of low category again it is a mixture of happiness and sorrows, the happiness is just for a while. Happiness is illusory. The highest category enjoyment of happiness is in the gati of Heaven and highest category of pains to be suffered is in Hell. Say for instance, if there is no Hell, humanbeings will have suffer for their all the sins here itself, which is wrong. A humanbeing with 100 years of life, if he is to suffer for all his sins, then his lifespan would be very much shorter and his life would come to the end. Lakhs of sins are committed, then how many years will be required to suffer the pains of the punishments for those many sins? Thousands of murders / killing, theft and robberies done, the highest punishment [here] is
hang till the death' then where such sinner will suffer the punishment for the remaining sins? Those who never went in a prison [ for the offence committed] then who will suffer their punishments? In Hell, a life period of 100 years would not be enough. If such is the case, the life would end and the punishments would remain pending/ in balance. Then what? Once again the soul has to come back to the Hell. In human birth, the lifespan is not as long as lakhs or crores of years. If punishment for a theft is suffered, then what about the punishment for several and numerous sins of violence, lie, hoarding anti-natural sins, indulging in sexual activities with others wife, rape, use of intoxicants? The punishment cannot be suffered here for the sins committed here. Higher the intensity of extreme passion & attachment in negative & ill thoughts-longer the duration of results & fruits of such sinful Karmas. Such accumulated Karmas itself get matured to give it's result after 20-30-70 kodā kodi sãgaropam [2-3-7 thousands of years] So, 100 years of life here, is not enough. For that purpose soul has to go to Hell to sufer such sins. The pains of humans and tiryanch are limited. Oh Akampit, lions and tigers in their cage get food to eat, humans in prison, do get food to eat, this is good for humanbeings and animals and birds, but in Hell, even this is not available. In Hell, the flesh of one's own body is forced into his mouth. How tremendous?. If here in the present world, assume - if there is no punishment for various crimes such as rape, murder, violence, theft, etc. then to what
Thus, with the logical and factful answer, pardeshi understood the reality that the lives in Hell can not return. Here, sinful activities are committed constantly by the people, hence consequencial punishments for those sins will have to be born / suffered somewhere or the other example given:
A man steals 100 times, hardly once or twice he gets caught, and is imprisoned for 2-4 years. But what about, those 98-99 times of his theft? He may escape the police, but there is no chance to escape from paramãdhãmees. When someone is suffering from disease and is near about to die, can he forget his sins? In this world, a person can forget what he ate, drank but cannot forget his sins. He remembers it. So sins committed here, would have to be necessarily suffered (action & re action, cause & effect). But to what extent the punishments are suffered here in this world?
Oh Akampit ! There are 2 types of sins, some are of low i.e. normal or ordinary category, degree and
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Oh God! Hell for me ?!... I dare not even think of..