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to experience sorrow, we have got a number of hells. Yamarāja is incharge of Naraka.
After experiencing hell and heaven, a creature has to come in this world time and again. Happiness and sorrow are experienced in this world by degrees; because sorrowful and happyboth kinds of persons stay in this world. The great significance of this mortal world is that man gets the opportunity of undergoing a new effort along with experiencing happiness or sorrow. Availing of this opportunity, a human being collects good deeds for future and evil deeds also by doing evil. Hence the mortal world is called Karma-bhūmi.
SECTION VIII
KARMA-BHUMI In the Vişnu Purāņa?, it is said that India or Bharatavarşa is described by saints and sages as Karma-bhūmi. In respect of persons going upto heaven and on the way to final liberation ( Moksa )?, it is further added that not only heaven or liberation but it is the centre of every thing after which the man strives, even enters the way to animal life and to the hell, Everything has starting point in Bhāratavarşa.3 It is further added that it is in this country that four Yugas Satya, Tretă etc. flourish. It is also said that it is in this country that penances are performed and sacrificial oblations are offered. It is pointed out that in the entire Jambū dvipa, Bhāratavarșa alone deserves to be called Karma-bhumi while other countries or Varșas are described as Bhogabhími. It is believed that a person who takes his birth in this Karma-Bhūmi and performs Nişkāma Karma and dedicates all his actions to divine is most fortunate.
1. Vişnu Purāņı. Chapter III, Scction II 2. Ibid., Versc 4. 3. lbid. 4, lbid., Verses 19-20 1. Vişņ:: Purīns, Chapter III, Section II, verscs 22.
