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(2) Creatures in hell are smashed in machines like sugarcane.
(3) They are roasted completely like corn in hot iron furnaces.

(4) They are cut into pieces like cucumber.
(5) They are pealed constantly like papaya and are made like
a salad.
(6) Like a deer in the forest who is constantly frightened
of wild animals, a creature in hell is also constantly
frightened from all directions.

These creatures in hell are bearing all this horrible troubles
and pains even at this moment. If this is constantly in front
of our eyes, then the various difficulties in this human birth
seem unimportant.
Even Sitaji constantly visualized the pains in hell and felt that
her present troubles were nothing compared to them. Hence,
her mind was not always occupied in those sad thoughts.
Instead, she was mentally calm and composed.

Secondly, our problem is that we immediately take our
physical pains on our mind and constantly think about it
and its solutions. But we do not give similar importance to
our soul’s endless pains. We do not think about it and its
solutions and hence our mind always remains uncomposed
and disturbed.

Compared to the soul’s endless sorrows, these worldly
sorrows are meager and unimportant.
The soul’s endless sorrows :

(1) Even after taking birth as the great Indra, death is certain.
You have to compulsorily leave all the heavenly luxuries
and comforts. Isn’t this less painful ?

(2) After that the soul has to roam in various high-low births.
Isn’t this painful ?
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