Friends:
Downfall Rebirth in one of many Hells is Extreme Torture!
There are Eight Great
Hells! These are:
1: The Revival Ever Hell (Sańjīva),
2: The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta),
3: The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta),
4: The Screaming Hell (Roruva),
5: The Loud Screaming Hell (Mahāroruva),
6: The Burning Torture Hell (Tapa),
7: The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa),
8: The Relentless Hell (Avicī).
1: The Revival Hell (Sańjīva)
where one survives & cannot die from pain!
Those who, because of greed, confusion, fear, or anger, kill living
beings
or having nursed them, slaughter them for sale, they will be reborn
in the
Sańjīva Hell. There
though killed and killed again for many thousands of
years, because they revive there again and again for more pain, this
is
called Sańjīva Hell:
The Revival Forever Hell... Even death cannot stop it!
2: The Black Thread
Hell (Kālasutta)
where one is cut up by a black line!
Men who are hostile towards friends, mother, father & good pure
ones,
who are slanderers & liars they go to The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta).
Since they are split like wood with burning saws along a marking
line,
made by black thread, so it is called
Kālasutta: The Black
Thread Hell...
3: The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta)
where one is crushed to pulp repeatedly!
Those men who kill goats, rams, jackals, hares, rats, deer, boar &
other
free living & roaming beings, they end up in The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta).
Since, crushed together between huge mountains, splattered,
squeezed,
smashed, & squashed to fluid mash there in a total slaughter, this
niraya
is called Sanghāta:
The Crushing Hell...
4: The Screaming Hell (Roruva)
where one screams like a bound pig in fire!
Those who harass or torment other being's body & mind & who cheats
go
to The Screaming Hell (Roruva).
There they give forth terrible screams,
howls, yells, in outcry over being constantly consumed by fierce
fire, &
ferocious flames. This blaze is thus called:
Roruva The Screaming Hell...
5: The Loud Screaming
Hell (Mahāroruva)
where one screams even more!
Those who steal what was entrusted to them or steal the possessions
of
devas, high people, recluses & teachers, by causing suffering even
to such
good ones go to Mahāroruva:
The Loud Screaming Hell. There the pain &
affliction of the fire torment & the screaming is even greater then
ever.
This inferno is therefore called
Mahāroruva: The Loud
Screaming Hell...
6: The Torture Hell (Tapa)
is an immense conflagration of bitter pain!
Whoever burns creatures in conflagrations such as forest fires, that
person, weeping and wailing, is eaten by a fiery fire of blazing
flames.
Since this severe burning torture continues without interruption,
this
is known in this world here as
Tāpana: The Burning Torture Hell...
7: The Great Torture
Hell (Mahātapa) is an
even more burning hurting!
The foolish
nihilist who perversely
insists that Dhamma is non-Dhamma
and whoever harms other beings deliberately is tortured by fierce
fire
in The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa).
Since it burns beings even worse
than theTāpana,
this holocaust is called
Mahātapa: Great Torture Hell...
8: The Relentless Hell
(Avicī) where the
pain is without break or pause!
Those showing enmity to those of greater virtue, slaying Nobles,
pure
disciples or also their mother, father, or teachers, they are reborn
in
The Relentless Hell (Avicī).
Even the bones burns to ashes there, since
the heat is excessively terrible. Because there is no interval,
break, or
pause, this is called Avicī:
The Relentless Hell... Without interruption..
These are the 8 great
Hells explained by the Teacher of the 3 worlds!
Source (edited
extract):
Pańcagatidīpanī
by Ashvaghosa &
Saddhammaghosa 11-12th
century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal
of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714
For more on the 136
Hells (Niraya,
Naraka):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/niraya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ways_to_the_Barbeque.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.htm#Chapter
XXII Hell - Niraya
The Buddha on the
Hells: MN 130 The Divine Messengers.
Devadūta
Sutta!
http://www.mettanet.org/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/2Majjhima-Nikaya/Majjhima3/130-devaduta-e.html