heaven and hell
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Paramārthasāra
The conventional post-mortem destinies of merit and demerit, treated as ultimately unreal for the liberated knower.
In just this way merit and demerit, heaven and hell, birth and death, pleasure and pain, and [the distinctions of] caste and life-stage — though unreal in [respect of] the Self — come to be by the force of delusion.
This Person, abiding in the interior of a body, [becomes] of the nature of heaven or of the nature of hell;
Resort to a holy ford [is] for [the gaining of] merit, [and] death-passage in the dwelling of an outcaste [is] for [going to] hell;
Paramārthasāra
The conventional posthumous destinations of merit and demerit, denied ultimate reality and irrelevant to the liberated knower.
Merit and demerit, the constructs of pleasure and pain, dwelling in heaven and hell, birth and death, the [four] castes and life-stages — these do not exist here, in {{paramārtha|supreme reality}}.
dying in the dwelling of an outcaste [makes] for hell — but for one in whom there is no touch of the stain of merit or demerit, what is [any of] that to him?