>From The Mahabharata
Santi Parva Section CXCVIII
Translated by Sri Kisari Mohan Ganguli
King Yudhishthira said: Tell me what description of
hell is obtained 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
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