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which transformations are not undergone by living beings on account of varieties of karmas > A king becomes a pauper; a pauper becomes a king. A penniless man becomes wealthy; a wealthy man becomes penniless. Gods on death become either a tiryance or a still lower being; a tiryanca may become a déva ( celiştial being ) on death. An ant during the next life becomes an elephant and an elephant on death becomes an ant. In this way there are numerous transformations during future lives, but one does not remember, what he had experienced during his previous lives. People move about with the pride of the prosperous condi tion acquired by them during this life. A king who during his present life as a king. has obtained imperial authority over the entire world through the medium of his powerful army of seven components and who has been menacing millions of people only by his angry look; who over-powers numerous kings by this powerful army; whose orders are never disobeyed; who kills thousands of lower creatures during his past time of hunting; and who becoming engrossed in the pleasures of singing, dancing looks upon other persons as a piece of straw-the same king, after death, is born as a Näraka (hellish being) and he alone endures the agonies of pain generated in hell; he alone unwillingly bears the punishments inflicated upon himself by paramadhami's (menial gods who torture hellish beings in various ways), and he alone suffers injuries caused by other hellish beings who my have formed animosity towards himself and who are born in the same hell. Having encountered death a number of times, the same individual is born as a tiryance (a lower animal )
There also having killed numerous creatures he is again born as a hellish being in this way, he keeps on wandering. Leaving aside the question of the miseries of the next life, even during the present life one experiences numerous vicissitudes of life caused by the fruits of different karmas Even a cakravartin is reduced to poverty and he wallows in terrible misery.
A living being always keeps on wandering in this world as
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