Why double punishments thru hells and again thru Karma?
A devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Hare krishna, prabhu….dandabat pranam…thanks for all of your wonderful counsellings. Wish more to know from you.all good , bad things are due to karma reaction. After death person go to hell for his sinful works. When he or she has already gone to hell then why he has to go through this karma reaction..he have to suffer griefs…but already he has suffered for this in hell. …pls prabhu explain it…”
REPLY:
Both the punishments must be realized by that person. Calling them as double punishments thru hells and again thru Karma, is not perfect, but call them as ‘two parts of punishments’.
Part of the punishment is given in hells and he has to face the remaining in any one of the material planets.
(List of Hells can be READ HERE!)
This is like material criminal proceedings.
A person who involves in a crime is first given police custody in which he is kept in the lock up in the police station. There he may be tortured by the police to bring out the truth from him.
After that, he is produced in the court. The judge gives the judgement with an imprisonment for certain period.
Thus, this is the continuity of the punishment.
After completing that punishment, he is punished by his family and friends because they will not behave with him like before. He loses the image.
(What is the need of hells since we forget our sins while after death? READ HERE!)
The people who believed him before even for lakhs of rupees will hereafter hesitate to give even Rs.1000 loan to him.
So, after taking released from the jail, he has to feel the heat of that crime. And, he will always be in the watch-list of the police.
Similarly, we are given hellish conditions for our severe crimes and then given another birth to continue the sufferings similar to the sufferings he caused in his previous birth to others.
(Proofs for a man taking animal birth in his next birth! READ HERE!)
This is like the policemen beating the criminals before sending to jail in ‘lock up’ in the police station. A portion of the punishment is given in hells and then he is sent to material planets to face his karmic reactions of more pains and pleasures.
Garuda Purana states that the person who has the track record of serious offences will have to take any one birth among thousands of animals and after a long process, he has to take human birth again.
Thus, in some severe cases, even the next human birth is not given and he is given birth as as animals or other living beings. Losing the human birth itself is the greatest punishment for his serious sins.
If a person tortures his wife leading to her suicide, he can not be given the SIMILAR torture in jails. The jail term can just keep him away from the society. That’s all. This is just to reform him from sinning further after getting released. In the jails, the person will think of his sinful acts and may decide to be a good person in future. This may avoid his further sinning after release.
(If someone commits suicide, What will happen after that? READ HERE!)
Similarly, if a person has stolen the properties of others, his properties can not be stolen in the hells since he will be alone there without properties. He is just given a severe token punishment in hells. Then, he is given the next birth and is given the situation in which his properties are stolen by others.
Thus, to get the similar punishments, hellish term will not be sufficient. Hell term is not intended to punish, but to reform him is just to give him some time to review his sins and reform himself to be good in the next birth.
This is what even the governments say: Jail term is just to reform a offending person, not to punish him totally.
So, it is good for us not to involve in any sinful acts, but always chant the Holy Names of Lord that will purify us from all our previous karma. No other way for that.
Hope you are clear about why double punishments thru hells and again thru Karma!
(How karma decides our gender in the next birth as male or female? READ HERE!)