Narac Naraka : the condition of misery in the subtle body; Hell; a place of torture to which the souls of the wicked are sent. Authorities vary greatly as to the number & names of such places. Manu enumerates twenty-one.
... start a new life on earth. That is what happens usually—but there are some beings who are more developed and do not follow this course. That is a superstition [ that people have to live in naraka (hell) due to their bad actions ]. People after death pass through certain vital and mental worlds or through certain psychological states which are the results of their nature and action in life ...
... loka; Kailas above, between 7 tiers of 14 worlds, according to types—Pashu, Pisacha, Pramatha, Rakshasa, Asura, Deva, Siddha— Swarga—7—Kama, Yuddha, Prema, Manas, Jnana, Nishkama & Bhagavata Naraka—offences of or against Kama, Prema, Satya, Ishwara, [?Devata], Jnana, Atma— 12 hells in each Notes - VIII Idomeneus. Coriolanus. Antony. Richelieu. C. [Caius] Gracchus St Louis. Charles V ...
... back to its heaven as soon as possible & be again God's menial. Therefore, as the shortest way, it hurled itself against God in a furious clasp of enmity. 510) The greatest of joys is to be, like Naraka, the slave of God; the worst of Hells, being abandoned of God, to be the world's master. That which seems nearest to the ignorant conception of God, is the farthest from him. 511) God's servant ...
... of pain and suffering and hideous darknesses. Depending on the traditions and their specific terminology, these two classes of pleasant and unpleasant regions were variously named as 'svarga' and 'naraka', 'heaven' and 'hell', 'jannat' and 'jahannam', 'behest' and 'doze', 'paradise' and 'purgatory', etc. By the way, these regions ('loka', 'bhuvana') exist at the same time both subjectively and ...
... hint of this pejorative nomenclature from the Veda is in the paragraph in Kangle just preceding our context: "I bow to Bali, the son of Virochana, to Śambara of the hundred guiles, to Nikumbha, to Naraka, to Kumbha, to Tantukaccha, the great Asura." Śambara, who at once rivets our gaze with the power of trickery and magic attributed to him, gets from Walker 1 the note: "Śambara in the Vedas is a ...
... small brush Substance (rough, thick, hairy) +कोच drying, becoming dry कोचः drying, withering, aridity. कुजः a tree. Light (colour) Mars a name of Naraka कुजा Sita, Durga. Light? (colour) कुजंभलः, कुजंभिलः housebreaker. (जंभ?) cf कुंजः Cover, Contain. कुज्झटिः, कुज्झटिका, कुज्झटी mist, fog Substance (to be thick ...
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