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Out of hell he gets animal birth,
PANCALINGIPRAKARAṆAM: 77
Oppression, branding, fear, thirst,
Hellish sufferings there,
to hell again and there again |
and hunger again and again ||
too,
as a human if evil karma writs |
Born in low caste and family to suffer
indignity of lowly deeds || 39 ||
38-39. After suffering boundless pain and misery in the hell, on shedding karmic bondage the soul comes out and takes birth in animal species. From there it goes to hell and is born as animal again. There, too, it suffers pain and misery of oppression, branding, fear, thirst, hunger etc, which are as bad as hellish sufferings. As a human being, too, if his evil karma comes to rise, he is born in lowly caste and family and suffers indignity in that birth as well as bonds further inauspicious karma to suffer in later births.
In order to underline the fact that the whole world is full of pain and misery, in these two verses the author mentions the pains, sorrows, and misery that a person may have to suffer even in human rebirths, what to talk of hellish and subhuman (animals, birds, fishes, insects, bacteria, etc) rebirths.
