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Que. 6: Briefly outline the procedure of an Enlightened Death?
: (1) The person concerned has to curtail his attachments, subdue his desires and reduce his mortal-cage.
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(2) He generously donates for noble tasks, discriminatively gives specified amount to his relatives & friends. (3) He should give up all his belongings and purify his mind by really delinquenishing all his possessions, forgiving his kith and kin, and with a pure intention gives up all likes and dislikes for worldly objects.
(4) If he can get the company of true saints, he may embark upon Mahavratas (an ascetic's vows) and then should stay in a lonesome place.
(5) He should give up his food gradually, first solids, then semi-solids, then liquids and at last even water.
(6)
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Near the end, he takes shelter at the feet of Gods & saints (Panch-Parmeshthi) and asks his relatives to recite divine sermons. With firmness, patience, perseverance and endurance, the great Hero gradually leaves his present lean mortal-frame and departs for his divine abode. The greater details of this subject should be obtained from the relevant scriptures.
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