Colter's Hell

Rudraksha replied, “Gods also destroy the yajna of the rishis just like demons. They send apsaras as obstacles to disrupt the sadhna of rishis. You know about Vishwamitra. Menaka, Rambha… Madhurya got scared hearing my open criticism of gods. The teacher might get angry and might kick me out of the ashram once he finds that out. As a residential student of the ashram, I should not be against the gods, who the rishis pray day and night. Madhurya was my classmate. I am impressed by his endless…

Dante shows this through the repetition of circles in the geography of hell as well as his selected punishments for each sin. The Bhagavad Gita explains the perpetual hell by being trapped in the world, indulged in earthly material and being misguided from Krishna. From the understanding of ultimate suffering, we begin to understand what humans value to be crucial for happiness…

Too many Christians are being tricked and deceived by the actions of the devil. Resulting in losing battles that God has already won for us. How is that even conceivable possible? To lose battles that God has already won for us? It’s because we are underestimating the devil’s power and the conduits he uses. We have adopted this unrealistic image of the devil that society has built – a red being with horns with a long pointed tail with a pitch fork. If such a creature approached you, you would…

Goodman Brown has no Faith The devil will try to get everyone’s soul and he will do it in a unexpected way because that way you will not see it coming and it is harder for you to say no. Every person has good in them too, but they will have to battle with the conflicts between right and wrong. In “Young Goodman Brown” Goodman Brown changed his faith and religious life when he enters the woods and the devil manipulates him to change his beliefs. There is good and evil in every person and it makes…

journey through the different levels of Hell guided by, ancient Roman poet, Virgil who enlightens Dante on the way. Through contrapassos, which literally translates to counter-punishment, Dante unpacks the punishment that sinners undergo. At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on the principles of justice and…

Death is a painful lash of a whip to remind us of the deathless state which is man’s destiny. Through a series of interplay of paradoxes the truth is revealed to man. The Eternal Night in which Savitri finds herself is no more than the shadow of the Eternal Day. Night is compared to the dark mother. Though man feels himself engrossed in night, man has come to this dark mother from a supernal Light, and by that Light man lives and ultimately goes to his final destination. Naturally it is that the…

louder than bells, sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell.” Florence Welch belts out in a beautifully deep voice. In an instant, she’s rendered the ideals of both Heaven and Hell as insignificant, trivial delusions. She’s singing about the way she feels when she’s in love. This human emotion she’s experiencing is so much more remarkable than anything to be experienced in the afterlife. If love is sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell, then what is there to look forward to after death? The…

In Christianity, Lucifer is a fallen angel who was cast out of Heaven and condemned to Hell. Lucifer has been referred to by many names, including the Devil and Satan, which means adversary. Lucifer has appeared in many different texts in different forms. Recently, he has appeared on two modern television shows, the CW’s Supernatural and Fox’s Lucifer in different roles. Since it first appeared on air in 2005, Supernatural has established a rich mythology regarding monsters, demons, and angels…

The punishment, for each Circle of Dante’s Hell, is connected to its corresponding sin. For example, in the 4th Circle, the Hoarders and Spendthrifts are punished by being forced to push stones into each other over and over. This punishment is fitting because the hoarders’ stones could represent all the materialistic things he or she hoarded and the spendthrifts’ stones could represent all the money he or she spent. The hoarders and the spendthrifts are opposite extremes and because of their…

The Byronic hero is a character with “dark” attributes that are not usually associated with a hero. It is a character with several qualities that would normally describe an antagonist. In such way, Byronic heroes are usually arrogant, rebellious, cynical, mysterious, and many times have a troubled past. Byronic heroes are also primarily characterized by being outcasts, having self-destructive behavior, and possessing the ability of seduction or attraction. Milton’s Satan from Paradise Lost…