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["141'], live in Sivaloka not only by himself but also with his entire, family and friends. 'Nandi became his personal attendant named Pārşadagataganapah” and assumed Siva's form:
In the case of physical. transformation ( Játyantara Pariņāma ) either for good or evil deed, the intervention of death is not necessary. What is indispensable is the so-called apūraņa of the causal forces or praksti as explained in the Yoga literature. The casuality of nimitta is not direct or immediate but through the implementation of praksti as explained there.*
SECTION. VI
HEAVEN AND HELL In the course of our Paurāņic studies, so far, we have had occasion to refer again and again, to the Svarga or Naraka, or .-heaven and hell in the sense of places where pious or wicked souls are sent regularly in order to experience the consequences of their actions. Svarga or heaven in a general sense' is a place for enjoyment of various kinds of pleasures, as a result of a life of good action or pious thought on earth. In the same way Naraka or Niraya meaning hell is supposed to be a place of intense torments and sufferings as a result of wicked thoughts and deeds of unpious persons. A general idea of Svarga or Naraka is analogous to what we find in other branches of Indian literature-Sanskrit,
The' Yogic philosophers are distinctly of the opinion that the relation between the intrinsic or material cause and the efficient cause consists in the fact that the intrinsic cause which is prakrti itself, which transforms itself into the effect without the intervention of the efficient cause, the function of which is simply to remove the barrier in the path of the praksti's transformation. The quickness of time depends upon the intensity of the functioning of the efficient cause. Just as in a hilly country
of a sloping nature, water locked up in the higher fields, comes down - automatically to the lower, after the barrier is removed, it is exactly of
the same nature. On the analogy of this teaching of the Yogaśastro, it is believed that the sinfulness or piety in the case of Nahuşa or Nandīśvara
was so great that as soon as its barrier was removed, it revealed itself : in the form in the effect immediately. Hence the celestial body of Nahuşa .. was instantaneously changed into the body of a snake and the human body
of Nandiśvara in the similar manner was immediately changed into a . celestial one with aut being required to pass through the stage of death,
