Hell for Me I Dare Not even Think of

Author(s): Vimalprabhvijay
Publisher: Vimalprabhvijayji

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patience and think that punishments are the results of their own previously committed (sinful) Karmas. It is worthless to blame others as the Karma are fixed and destined and necessarily to be suffered, no one else is responsible for the offence or for the benefit - others are merely media. Oh soul! There is no suffering without a [ bad) Karma as its' cause, and how a bad] Karma get destroyed or ended or nullified without it's fruit? Therefore, why the soul feel grief while suffering the results of its own Karma? The soul itself is the enemy when it marches towards bad Karmas and the soul itself is the friend when it does good Karmas. Thus, it is the soul who is a friend or a foe. Well-versed and Religious preceptors have explained and warned from committing sins but you ignored them, then why you are annoyed and angry, after your own buying the pains and sorrows?(by committing sins). You used to claim that there were no such Hell and if at all, they are only 7 of them, there isn't the 8th Hell. Now why do you repent?. Such are the humble thoughts in the minds of the lives with Samyakdrishti in Hell. Thus they bear the bad karmas and end their Karmas, later they are born as human beings in some royal family and gradually attain the salvation. While the others' with their wicked thoughts in Hell are later born as tiryanch and wander in the cycle of gati's (incarnations) of births & deaths in the world. [58]APPEARANCE/ CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL THE 7 HELLS:
1st Hell:- Ratnaprabhã. Meru mountain is situated in the centre of 14 Răj lok. There is Urdhva lok [Dev lok i.e;Heaven), Adho lok [ Patal lok i.e; Hell], & Tircchã lok [Manushya lok i.e; World of Humanbeings). Meru mountain is surrounded by Jambodweep and other number of dweep seas i.e; seas with islands. From the surface level of Meru mountain, Tirchã lok is situated below it, upto 800 yojans, which is followed by Narak lok Adho lok i.e:Hell). 7 earths of Hell are situated within the area of 7 Raj. The size of 1 Hell earth is similar to that of 1 Rāj. It is in the descending order. The name of 1st Hell earth is Dhammã. There are 16 various types of precious stones there, such as Vaidurya, Vajra, Lohit, Masar, Galā etc.in this Hell. It has a unique shine / luster therefore, Dhammã is also known as Ratnaprabhã earth. It is 1 Rāj broad, its width at the bottom is similar to the infinite dweep seas up to Swayambhu Raman sea, and it is 1 lakh 80 thousand yojans, in this area excluding 1 thousand yojans at the top and I thousand yojans at bottom portion, the Hell lives reside respectively. There are 13 paths/ ways to the dwelling places. As
they are of similar class each path is also called as 1 praster. The height of praster is 3 thousand yojans. There is 1 Narkendra for 1 praster. Each and every praster leads to the dwelling place. There are 30 lakh dwelling places in 1st Hell. The dwelling places are situated in all the directions in this Hell. Each direction has several dwelling places in different numbers. It is spherical/round/ circular from within and square from outside. The length and breadth of this dwelling places is of numerous yojans. Certain dwelling places are of innumerable yojans. Similar are the dwelling places in all the 7 Hells. Here we do have beautiful buildings, flats, furnitures, etc., but there, the appearance of the surface of land is rough, ugly and like a spear. It is very frightful, and it's mere look gives fear. Beneath the Ratnaprabhã earth there is Dhanodadhi, Dhanvãt, Tanvāt and Akash, all four. It is similar upto 7 Hells. Beneath the Ratnaprabhã earth, the area like a ball of rice, of Dhanodadhi is 20 thousand yojans thick, and Dhanavãt is of innumerable thousand yojans, below it is innumerable yojans of Tanvãt, further below it, Ãkāsh is also of innumerable yojans. Similar is upto 7 Hells. The structure of Ratnaprabhã and all other Hells is spherical. There is an end after 12 yojans from the Ratnaprabhā Hell. Alok is situated 16 yojans away from 7th Hell. Similar is the position at all the four corners. At the end of Ratnaprabhã earth-first is Dhanodadhi circle, second is the circle of Dhanvāt & third is the circle of Tanvāt. The circumference of Dhanodhadi is 6 yojans thick, in Ratnaprabhã earth of Hell. Ratnaprabhã earth of Hell admeasures 1 lakh 80 thousand yojans, excluding area of one thousand yojans from the top and also excluding the area of 1 thousand yojans at the bottom, in the remaining area of 1 lakh 78 thousand yojans, 30 lakh Hell dwelling places are situate. It is round from within and square from outside. It is the Hell full of pains, sorrows, tortures, and sufferings. Alok (i.e. non - world) is 12 yojans far from Ratnaprabhã earth.
1 Yojan = 6 Miles
2nd Hell:- Sharkarã prabhã also known as Vanshã. There are pieces of stones in abundance. Therefore it is called as Sharkară prabhã. Its breadth is of 2.5 Rāj. There are 11 prasters in it. There are 25 lakh Hell dwelling places. Its area is 1 lakh 32 thousand yojans in thickness.
3rd Hell:- Valukā prabhã, also known as Shaila. It has abundance of sand, therefore it is called as Valukã prabhã. Its' breadth is 4 Rāj. There are 15 lakh Hell dwelling places. There are 9 prasters in it,
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