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something of tbe bigher energy of the spiritualised will that is an attribute of the soul, and that speodily puts an end to all kinds of lower cravings and undesirable forms of feelings, filling the mind with the utmost degree of vairāgya (spirit of renunciation), With his soul resting, as it were the unsbakable rock of Right Faith, bis mind illumined with the light of pure Truth, that is Right Knowledge, and his actions all regulated and controllod by the highest form of will-developing vairagya namely, Right Conduct, the saint is more than a match, for evil karma and the pain that is the progeny of karma. He disregards his suffering as a champion athlete disregards the few scratches that he gets in a scuffle against his adversary. Thus filled with the spirit of holiness and vairägya, he recites the great Obeisance mantram (auspicious formula) till the mortal coil is shuffled off, and sallekhanü terminates in a rebirth in the soul-enrapturing scenery and surroundings of the heavenly regions, the abodes of devas (celestial beings)!
Kes.wi
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