He is placed among burning pieces of wood, and his limbs are delivered to the flames. In some cases, he is forced to eat his own flesh (in the case of carnivores and all those who ate the flesh of animals), or else it is made to be devoured by others.

His entrails are torn out by the dogs and vultures of hell, while he still lives to witness the scene, and snakes, scorpions, mosquitoes, and other creatures bite and torment him.

His limbs are then torn from his body and torn to pieces by elephants. He is thrown from mountaintops and imprisoned underwater or in a cave.

Men and women who have based their lives on the fulfillment of illicit carnal desires (outside of marriage) are placed in all sorts of horrific conditions in the hells known as Tamisra, Andha-tamisra, and Raurava.

It is sometimes said that man experiences heaven or hell on this very planet (on planet Earth), for infernal punishments are also visible there.

After leaving his body, the man who has provided for himself and his family through sinful acts must endure a life of hell, and his loved ones with him.

Only he enters the dark regions of hell after leaving his present body, and the money he acquired by envying other beings is the price he pays to leave this world.

Thus, according to the design of the Sovereign Lord, he who has done nothing but maintain his loved ones is plunged into a hellish condition, to suffer for his sinful acts, like a man who has lost his fortune.

Therefore, whoever yearns so intensely to support his family and loved ones that he resorts only to illicit means will surely experience the darkest region of hell, known as andhatamisra.

After passing through all the conditions of hellish suffering and experiencing the lowest forms of animal life in the natural order, the spiritual being, having thus purged his sins, is reborn again in human form on this earth.

Under the guidance of the Supreme Lord, and according to the fruit of his works, the living being (the soul) is introduced into the womb of a woman through a drop of male semen to assume a particular bodily form.

Your thoughts at the time of death determine your future birth.

Depending on the body granted to him, the materialistic being wanders from one planet to another, absorbed in self-interested action, the fruits of which he endlessly reaps.

According to his selfish actions, the conditioned being (conditioned by matter) obtains an appropriate body, with a material mind and senses. Then, the consequences of these actions end; this is called death. When a new set of karmic reactions begins, then comes birth.