Canto 5: The Creative ImpetusChapter 26: A Description of the Hellish Planets

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.26.35

yas tv iha vā atithīn abhyāgatān vā gṛha-patir asakṛd upagata-manyur didhakṣur iva pāpena cakṣuṣā nirīkṣate tasya cāpi niraye pāpa-dṛṣṭer akṣiṇī vajra-tuṇḍā gṛdhrāḥ kańka-kāka-vaṭādayaḥ prasahyoru-balād utpāṭayanti

SYNONYMS

yaḥa person who; tu — but; ihain this life; — or; atithīn — guests; abhyāgatān — visitors; — or; gṛha-patiḥa householder; asakṛt — many times; upagata — obtaining; manyuḥ — anger; didhakṣuḥ — one desiring to burn; iva — like; pāpena — sinful; cakṣuṣā — with eyes; nirīkṣate — looks at; tasya — of him; ca — and; api — certainly; nirayein hell; pāpa-dṛṣṭeḥ — of he whose vision has become sinful; akṣiṇī — the eyes; vajra-tuṇḍāḥ — those who have powerful beaks; gṛdhrāḥ — vultures; kańka — herons; kāka — crows; vaṭa-ādayaḥ — and other birds; prasahya — violently; uru-balāt — with great force; utpāṭayanti — pluck out.

TRANSLATION

A householder who receives guests or visitors with cruel glances, as if to burn them to ashes, is put into the hell called Paryāvartana, where he is gazed at by hard-eyed vultures, herons, crows and similar birds, which suddenly swoop down and pluck out his eyes with great force.

PURPORT

According to the Vedic etiquette, even an enemy who comes to a householder's home should be received in such a gentle way that he forgets that he has come to the home of an enemy. A guest who comes to one's home should be received very politely. If he is unwanted, the householder should not stare at him with blinking eyes, for one who does so will be put into the hell known as Paryāvartana after death, and there many ferocious birds like vultures, crows, and coknis will suddenly come upon him and pluck out his eyes.

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