If karmic reactions come on earth itself what is the need for sufferings in hell?

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Shall we stop? Yeah, so if the law of karma causes punishments here, then why is it that there are hellish planets described in the Puranas? See, the reactions to our past actions come in different ways. Some reactions come on this planet itself.
Some, too, as we can see it in human beings. Some reactions come in hellish planets. Some reactions come in lower species.
So basically, the soul is in a particular body. And the body is, sorry, the soul is in this material world. It is covered by three coverings.
There is a body, there is a society, and there is nature. And the soul tries to get pleasure through all these. Through the body, we try to enjoy the senses.
Through the society, we try to form relationships. Through nature, we try to control and enjoy nature. Now, all these three, through which we try to get pleasure, they also cause trouble.
Now, karmic reactions can come through all three. That means, in the situation that we are in, we may get suffering. Sometimes, we may be taken to an entirely different situation, like a hellish planet, and there we are given suffering.
Or sometimes, we are taken to another body, a lower species. Even among dogs, we will see that sometimes somebody, some dog is a pet dog, which is so pampered. And a street dog, which is, which is attacked.
So, even among dogs, why is one dog enjoying another dog something? And dogs, they don’t have the philosophical intelligence. Otherwise, they would also ask the question, why do bad things happen to good dogs? And they don’t have the intelligence to philosophically ask that question. But we see the diversity, even in animal species.
Some animals live in a place where, say, abandoned food and water is available. Some animals live in places where it’s very scarce. So, why is that? So, karma acts in the human platform in this world.
Karma acts in the animal world. Some souls may get their karmic reactions by going to lower species. And some souls may get some karmic reactions in the hellish planets.
So, the karmic reactions are distributed in different ways, in all these different ways. In this world, in this body, in this world, in lower species, and other worlds. Okay, thank you.