As Yamaraja's agents lead him away, he trembles in their hands, seized with fear. All along the way he travels, dogs bite him, and he remembers the sins of his life. He experiences terrible distress.

Under a burning sun, the criminal must travel paths of burning sand through burning forests. His tormentors whip his back when he can no longer walk; hunger and thirst overwhelm him, but unfortunately, this path offers neither water, nor shelter nor a place to rest.

Along this road which leads him to the abode of Yamaraja, he often falls down from fatigue, and sometimes sinks into unconsciousness, but is forced to rise. Thus he finds himself quickly brought into the presence of Yamaraja.

He has to cover ninety-nine thousand (99,000) yojanas (about 1,287,000 km) in two or three moments, after which he is immediately subjected to the tortures he deserves.

He is placed in the midst of burning pieces of wood and his limbs are delivered to the flames. In some cases he is forced to eat his own flesh, or else he is made to devour it by others.

His entrails are torn out by the dogs and vultures of hell while he is still alive to witness the scene; and serpents, 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 the top of mountains, and imprisoned under water or in a cave.

Men and women who have based their existence on the satisfaction of illicit carnal desires are placed in all sorts of horrible conditions in the hells called Tamisra, Andha-tamisra and Raurava.

My dear mother, it is sometimes said that man experiences heaven or hell on this very planet, for hellish punishments are also visible there.

After leaving his body, the man who has provided for himself and his family by sinful acts, must undergo a life of hell, and with him his relatives.

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

Thus, according to the design of the Sovereign Lord, the one who has only maintained his relatives is plunged into a hellish condition in order to suffer for his sinful acts, like a man who has lost his fortune.

Therefore, whoever yearns so intensely to maintain his family and relatives that he resorts only to illicit means, will certainly experience the darkest region of hell, known as Andhatamisra.

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