@sathariel @lilli well the Buddhist and Jainist hells deemphasize hell as being a product of Gods justice but also Gods love so lets just say my take is a Hindu take. That there are numerous hell realms, places of suffering as real as this world were in now (in contrast with the idea that hell is like, a product of an evil persons mind existing in a void, or a product of merely being distant from God) of varying severity where you burn off bad karmas accumulated in past live(s) as a necessary step allowing you to be reborn into a more favorable life in an earth realm/ and eventually moksha. I also believe in very specific hells/punishments for specific sins/cases.

some Hindu philosophers believe that some souls are sentenced to dwell in hell forever or dwell in samsara forever, I do NOT believe that.