Description of Hell

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by a Reciter (of sacred mantras)? I feel a curiosity to know this. It behoveth

thee to discourse on this subject. Bhishma said: Thou hast sprung from a

portion of the god of righteousness. Thou art by nature observant of

righteousness. Listen, O sinless one, with undivided attention, to these words

resting on righteousness as their basis. Those regions that are owned by the

high-souled gods, that are of diverse aspects and colours, of diverse

descriptions and productive of diverse fruits, and that are of great excellence,

those cars again that move at the will of the riders, those beautiful mansions

and hells, those various pleasure-gardens embellished with golden lotuses,

those regions that belong to the four Regents and other denizens of heaven, are

O sire, spoken of as hells, when compared with the region of the Supreme Soul.

The region last spoken of (region of the Supreme Soul) is without any fear (of

change for the worse), uncreate (and therefore, in its true nature), without

pain of any kind (such as ignorance and delusion), without any agreeable or

disagreeable element, beyond the reach

of the three attributes (of Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas), freed from the eight

incidents, (viz., the five primal elements, the senses, the mind, and the

intellect), without the three (distinctions between the knower, the known, and

act of knowing); freed also from the four attributes (seeing, hearing,

thinking, and knowing), without the fourfold causes (of knowledge), without joy

and delight and sorrow and disease. Time (in his forms of past, present and

future) arises there for use. Time is not the ruler there. That supreme region

is the ruler of Time as also of Heaven. That Reciter who becomes identified

with his Soul (by withdrawing everything into it) goes

there. He has, after this, never to feel any sorrow. This region is called

Supreme. The other regions (of which I have first spoken) are hell. I have not

told thee of all those regions that are called hell. Indeed, in comparison with

that foremost of regions all the others are called hell. Thank you kumar

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