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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 26]
Godhead;  vṛttiḥ —whose livelihood;  vivikta —understanding;  para-vyathaḥ —the painful conditions of others;  vyathām ācarati —but still causes pain;  saḥ —such a person;  paratra —in his next life;  andhakūpe —to the hell named Andhakūpa;  tat —to them;  abhidroheṇa —by the sin of malice;  nipatati —falls down;  tatra —there;  ha —indeed;  asau —that person;  taiḥ jantubhiḥ —by those respective living entities;  paśu —animals;  mṛga —wild beasts;  pakṣi —birds;  sarīsṛpaiḥ —snakes;  maśaka —mosquitoes;  yūkā —lice;  matkuṇa —worms;  makṣika-ādibhiḥ —flies and so on;  ye ke —whoever else;  ca —and;  abhidrugdhāḥ —persecuted;  taiḥ —by them;  sarvataḥ —everywhere;  abhidruhyamāṇaḥ —being injured;  tamasi —in the darkness;  vihata —disturbed;  nidrā-nirvṛtiḥ —whose resting place;  alabdha —not being able to obtain;  avasthānaḥ —a resting place;  parikrāmati —wanders;  yathā —just as;  ku-śarīre —in a low-grade body;  jīvaḥ —a living entity.
TRANSLATION
By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings and other animals. Such insignificant creatures are unaware that their bites are painful to the human being. However, first-class human beings— brāhmaṇas ,  kṣatriyas  and  vaiśyas —are developed in consciousness, and therefore they know how painful it is to be killed. A human being endowed with knowledge certainly commits sin if he kills or torments insignificant creatures, who have no discrimination. The Supreme Lord punishes such a man by putting him into the hell known as Andhakūpa, where he is attacked by all the birds and beasts, reptiles, mosquitoes, lice, worms, flies, and any other creatures he tormented during his life. They attack him from all sides, robbing him of the pleasure of sleep. Unable to rest, he constantly wanders about in the darkness. Thus in Andhakūpa his suffering is just like that of a creature in the lower species.
PURPORT
From this very instructive verse we learn that lower animals, created by the laws of nature to disturb the human being, are not subjected to