Text 21] The Hellish Planets 457
den with one’s mother, sister and daughter. If one indulges in illicit
sexual relations with another man’s wife, that activity is considered iden-
tical with having sex with one’s mother. This act is most sinful. The same
principle holds for a woman also; if she enjoys sex with a man other than
her husband, the act is tantamount to having sexual relations with her
father or son. Illicit sex life is always forbidden. and any man or woman
who indulges in it is punished in the manner described in this verse.
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yas tv iha vai sarvabhigamas tam amutra niraye vartamanari
vajrakantaka-salmalim aropya niskarsanti.

yah—anyone who; tu—but: iha—in this life; vai—indeed: sarva-
abhigamah—indulges in sex life indiscriminately, with both men and
animals; tam—him: amutra—in the next life: niraye—in the hell: var-
tamdnam—existing; vajrakantaka-salmalim—a silk-cotton tree with
thorns like thunderbolts; dropya—mounting him on: niskarsanti—they
pull him out.

TRANSLATION

A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately—even with
animals—is taken after death to the hell known as Vajrakantaka-
salmali. In this hell there is a silk-cotton tree full of thorns as
strong as thunderbolts. The agents of Yamaraja hang the sinful
man on that tree and pull him down forcibly so that the thorns
very severely tear his body.

PURPORT

The sexual urge is so strong that sometimes a man indulges in sexual
relations with a cow, or a woman indulges in sexual relations with a dog.
Such men and women are put into the hell known as Vajrakantaka-
