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First Study: Gathapati Ananda]
[61 Desire for Enjoyment-Praise-Application: To desire to enjoy worldly and otherworldly words, forms, tastes, smells, and touch-based sensory pleasures - to have a feeling that such enjoyable objects will be obtained by me.
In this final period of practice, it is completely inappropriate for the above thoughts to come to mind. This hinders inner purity. The purity of the practitioner who has embarked on the path of practice for the sake of the pure and great goal is diminished by this. Therefore, the practitioner is expected to be very vigilant in this situation.
Thus, to embrace death itself with a high spirit of renunciation, forbearance, and spirituality is called death-festival in Jain scriptures. This is truly a very strange and commendable situation. On the one hand, it is seen that even a man who is worn out by many diseases, taking his last breath, wants to live, groans to live, while on the other hand, this practitioner, completely immersed in equanimity, rises above the desire for life and death. Those who do not understand sometimes start calling it suicide. Why do they forget that suicide is done by someone who is driven by violent mental impulses like anger, sorrow, grief, attachment, etc., who sees no support in life, who sees only darkness everywhere. This is a disgusting form of weakness of the soul. Sanlekhana-preceded fasting unto death is not the killing of the soul, but its development, upliftment, and elevation, where the practitioner rises far above lust, anger, attachment, hatred, and delusion. Acquisition by Joy
58. Therefore, the Saman, the Bhagavan Mahavira, in the end, rejects the five poisons, the seven virtues, the twelve kinds of worldly dharma, and the worldly dharma. The Saman, having rejected the worldly dharma, bows down to the Bhagavan Mahavira, salutes him. Having bowed down and saluted him, he says this:
_ "O Venerable Sir! It is not fitting for me to accept food, food-related things, or food-related possessions, or to be honored or saluted, or to be touched or embraced by someone who is not pure, or to eat, drink, chew, or suck, or to give or receive anything, or to be involved in any kind of royal, communal, forceful, divine, or guru-related affairs, or to be involved in financial matters. It is fitting for me, the Saman, the Niggantha, the naked one, to live by accepting only what is necessary for my existence, such as food, drink, chewing, sucking, clothes, blankets, towels, beds, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and medicines, and to accept only what is necessary for my existence.
He accepts this bitter and painful acquisition, having accepted it, he asks questions, having asked questions, he clarifies doubts, having clarified doubts, he bows down to the Bhagavan Mahavira with great respect, having bowed down, he departs from the two-fold worldly life, having departed from the two-fold worldly life, he...