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Pariņāma or Physical Transformation :
The physical-transformations like colour, smell, taste, touch, sound, shape etc. are found to be increasingly more inauspicious in the grounds as one moves further downwards.
Body :
The bodies of the hellish beings residing in the different grounds, on account of a manifestation of the karma designated asubhanāma, are found to be increasingly more inauspicious in colour, smell, taste, touch, sound, shape and increasingly more impure and terrifying as one moves further downwards.
Vedanā or Tactile Feeling :
In the seven grounds the hellish beings experience a tactile feeling increasingly more sharp. Thus in the first three grounds there obtains a hot tactile feeling, in the fourth a hot tactile feeling supplemented by cold, in the fifth a cold tactile feeling supplemented by hot, in the sixth a cold tactile feeling, in the seventh a still colder tactile feeling. These hot and cold tactile feelings are so intense that if the hellish beings suffering from them happen to reach the region of human beings duing an extremely hot or an extremely cold season they can enjoy a sound sleep with utmost ease.
Vikriyā or Self-wrought Transformation :
Their vikriyā too is increasingly more inauspicious. Fed up with suffering they endeavour to get rid of it but what results is just the opposite. While seeking to work out a means of pleasure what they actually achieve is a means of pain. Thus with the help of their super-ordinary power of vikriyā-formation they seek to build up something auspicious but what is actually built up is something inauspicious.
Question : What is meant by saying that in the cases under consideration the increasingly more inauspicious phenomena like leśyā etc. are ever there ?
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