法苑珠林 7.45

7.45

又觀佛三昧海經云。佛告阿難。若有眾生。殺父害母罵辱六親。作是罪者。命終之時揮霍之間。譬如壯士屈申臂頃。直落阿鼻大地獄中。化閻羅王大聲告勅。癡人獄種。汝在世時不孝父母邪慢無道。汝今生處名阿鼻地獄。作是語已即滅不現。爾時獄卒復驅罪人。從於下隔。乃至上隔。經歷八萬四千隔中。攢身而過至鐵網際。一日一夜乃至周遍阿鼻地獄。一日一夜比此閻浮提日月歲數經六十小劫。如是壽命盡一大劫。具五逆者。其人受罪足滿五劫。復有眾生。犯四重禁虛食信施。誹謗邪見。不識因果。斷學般若。毀十方佛。偷僧祇物。婬妷無道。逼略淨戒諸比丘尼姊妹親戚。不知慚愧毀辱所親。造此惡事。此人罪報臨命終時刀風解身。俄爾之間身如鐵華。滿十八隔中。一一華八萬四千葉。一一葉頭身手支節。各在一隔。地獄不大此身不小。遍滿如此大地獄中。經歷八萬四千大劫。此泥犁滅復入東方十八隔中。如前受苦。此阿鼻獄南西北方經十八隔。謗方等經。具五逆罪。破壞僧祇。污比丘尼。斷諸善根。如此罪人具眾罪者。身滿阿鼻獄。四支復滿十八隔中。此阿鼻獄但燒此獄種種眾生。劫欲盡時東門即開。見東門外清泉流水。華菓林樹。一切俱現。是諸罪人從下上走。到上隔中手舉刀輪。時虛空中雨熱鐵丸。走趣東門。既至門閫。獄卒羅剎手捉鐵叉逆刺其眼。鐵狗嚙心悶絕而死。死已復生。見南門開如前不異。如是西門北門亦復如是。如此時間經歷半劫。阿鼻獄死生寒氷中。寒氷獄死生黑暗處。八千萬歲目無所見。受大蟲身婉轉腹行。諸情暗塞無所解知。百千狐狼牽掣食之。命終之後生畜生中。五千萬身受鳥獸形。還生人中。聾盲瘖瘂病癩癰疽貧窮下賤。一切諸衰以為嚴飾。受此賤形經五百身。後復還生餓鬼道中。餓鬼道中遇善知識諸大菩薩。訶責其言。汝於前身無量世時作無限罪。誹謗不信墮阿鼻獄。受諸苦惱不可具說。汝今應當發慈悲心。時諸餓鬼聞是語已稱南無佛。稱佛恩力尋即命終生四天處。生彼天已悔過自責發菩提心。諸佛心光不捨是等。攝受是輩如羅睺羅。教避地獄如愛眼耳。故起世經。世尊說偈言。

Furthermore, the Guan Fo sanmei hai jing says: 'The Buddha told Ānanda: "If there are beings who kill their fathers, harm their mothers, or verbally abuse their six classes of kin, when those who commit such sins reach the end of life, in an instant, like the time it takes a strong man to bend or stretch his arm, they fall straight into the great Avīci hell. A manifested King Yama proclaims in a loud voice: 'Foolish people, hell-seeds! When you were in the world, you were unfilial to your parents and perverse, arrogant, and without the Way. The place where you are now born is called the Avīci hell.' Having spoken these words, he vanishes and appears no more. At that time, the hell wardens drive the sinners from the lower partitions to the upper partitions, passing through eighty-four thousand partitions, squeezing their bodies through until they reach the edge of an iron net. In one day and one night, they traverse the entire Avīci hell. One day and one night there, compared to the months and years of this Jambudvīpa, equals sixty antarakalpas. Their lifespan is thus a whole mahākalpa. For those who have committed all five sins of immediate retribution, the punishment they receive lasts a full five kalpas. Furthermore, there are beings who violate the four grave prohibitions, vainly consume offerings made in faith, slander [the truth] with perverted views, fail to recognize cause and effect, sever their study of prajñā, defame the Buddhas of the ten directions, steal Saṃgha property, engage in licentious and immoral behavior, rape and assault bhikṣuṇīs of pure precepts, their own sisters, and relatives, know no shame, and disgrace their close kin: committing these evil deeds, as the karmic retribution for this person, when his life is about to end, the wind of knives dissects his body. In an instant, his body becomes like an iron flower filling the eighteen partitions. Each flower has eighty-four thousand petals; on the tip of each petal, a body, hand, or limb is located in each partition. The hell is not large, yet this body is not small, filling this entire great hell. He undergoes eighty-four thousand mahākalpas. When this niraya is exhausted, he enters again into the eighteen partitions of the eastern direction, suffering pain as before. In the southern, western, and northern directions of this Avīci hell, he passes through the eighteen partitions. Those who slander the Vaipulya sūtras, are fully endowed with the five sins of immediate retribution, destroy the Saṃgha, defile bhikṣuṇīs, and sever all roots of goodness—such sinners who possess all these offenses fill the Avīci hell with their bodies, and their four limbs again fill the eighteen partitions. This Avīci hell burns only the various beings of this hell. When the kalpa is about to end, the eastern gate opens, and outside the eastern gate, they see clear springs, flowing water, flowers, fruits, and groves of trees, all appearing together. These sinners run from below to above, and when they reach the upper partition, they raise wheel-knives with their hands. At that time, hot iron pellets rain from the sky. They run toward the eastern gate. When they arrive at the threshold of the gate, rākṣasa hell wardens take iron forks in hand and stab them backward into their eyes; iron dogs bite their hearts, and they faint and die. Having died, they revive, and they see the southern gate open, no different from before. The western and northern gates are also like this. In this way, half a kalpa passes. Dying in the Avīci hell, they are born into cold ice; dying in the cold ice hell, they are born into pitch darkness. For eighty million years, their eyes see nothing; they take the body of a large insect, writhing and crawling on their bellies, their faculties darkened and blocked without any understanding. Hundreds of thousands of foxes and wolves drag and eat them. After this life ends, they are born among animals, undergoing the forms of birds and beasts for fifty million lifetimes. Born again among humans, they are deaf, blind, mute, afflicted with leprosy, carbuncles, ulcers, poverty, and lowliness, with all misfortunes as their adornment. Undergoing these lowly forms for five hundred lifetimes, they are subsequently reborn in the realm of hungry ghosts. In the realm of hungry ghosts, they meet good spiritual friends, great bodhisattvas, who rebuke them, saying: 'In your previous bodies, during immeasurable lifetimes, you committed boundless sins; slandering and lacking faith, you fell into the Avīci hell, suffering all kinds of bitter afflictions beyond description. You should now generate a mind of loving-kindness and compassion.' Hearing these words, the hungry ghosts chant 'Namo Buddhāya'. Chanting through the power of the Buddha's grace, they immediately die and are born in the realm of the Four Heavenly Kings. Having been born in that heaven, they repent, reprove themselves, and generate the bodhicitta. The light of the Buddhas' minds does not abandon them, gathering them in as if they were Rāhula, teaching them to avoid hell as one cherishes one's eyes and ears." Therefore, in the Lokotpatty-abhidharma-sūtra, the World-Honoured One spoke a gāthā: