According to the Garuda Purana, how does a person receive the consequences of their actions in hell? How are the fruits of sins given according to the Garuda Purana? How are the consequences of sins and virtues given in hell?
Do you know what our religious scriptures say about sins and virtues? If you don't know, understand that one of the eighteen Puranas of Hinduism, named Garuda Purana, holds great significance because it extensively elaborates on the sins and virtues of humans. The Garuda Purana explains in detail the consequences a person will face according to their sinful and virtuous deeds. Let's understand according to the Garuda Purana, what punishment a person receives based on their sins.
You should know that if a person robs others' money or deceives them for money, or makes others a victim of their deceit, then the messengers of Yama (the god of death) tie that person with ropes of sharp edges and take them to hell, beating them until they become unconscious. Then they beat them again after regaining consciousness until they forget everything. The person confesses there what sins they committed.
According to the Garuda Purana, killing innocent and blameless creatures is considered a heinous sin, and for this, a very severe punishment has been prescribed. It is believed that such a person is dipped in boiling oil.
For your information, in hell, extremely dangerous punishment is also prescribed for those who never respect the elderly, always insult them, or humiliate them by abandoning them or throwing them out of the house. It is believed that such people are submerged in the fire of hell until their skin peels off their bodies.
Some people like to eat animals after killing them. Those people should be informed that the Garuda Purana also prescribes harsh punishment for them. Such people are left among wild animals in hell where large animals tear them apart.
In addition, according to the Garuda Purana, those who commit adultery with women, big or small, or deceive them and make them pregnant, are categorized as animals. Such individuals are thrown into wells filled with urine and excrement in hell. Some sins may lead you to take birth in different species. For example:
- A Brahmin killer is reborn as a deer, horse, or pig.
- A gold thief becomes an insect, grasshopper, or worm.
-One who has an affair with the guru's wife becomes a Brahmarakshasa.
- A person who has relations with a friend's wife obtains the vagina of a rat.
- Someone who lives on women's money is reborn as a lifeless creature without bones.
- A person who kills a friend deceitfully becomes a jackal.
- One who obstructs marriages takes birth as a mosquito.
- A cow thief takes birth in the form of a snake.
- A water thief becomes a fish.
- A milk thief and one who gives stale food to Brahmins are born as hunchbacks.
- A fruit thief becomes childless in the next life.
- A thief of Vedas is born blind from birth.
- One who breaks the promise given to Brahmins is born as a jackal.
- A Brahmin who marries a Shudra girl becomes a wolf.
- One who kills a guru becomes a crow.
Those who steal grains are born in the form of rats.
So, according to the Garuda Purana, sins have consequences, and people should be aware of them.
