Lower Planets (Hells)

Beneath the planet Patalaloka, and slightly above the water of the Garbhodaka Ocean, are the Narakalokas, or the hellish planetary systems. The 28 planets offer different degrees of suffering for those who must endure life there. Here on earth we can see many hellish circumstances of suffering for people, but nothing like what is experienced on these planets. They are said to be a place of rectification for those who commit the most abominable actions while living as humans on the earthly plane. Although life here seems like it goes on for an eternity, in actual fact the duration of one’s ‘karmic sentence’ here may be only seconds or moments.