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of the next life and leads to desirable and beneficial kinds of reincarnations in the future. Thus, the amount of indo. mitable iron will which he developes now will secure for him a rebirth in conditions and surroundings that will make it easier in the next lite to adopt and practise the rules of Right Conduct. He therefore, issues his challenge to the terrible Foe in language such as this. I know, I am not able to destroy thee in this life, or in the next one to come, or even in the one following the next one. I shall, therefore, be unable to resist being devoured by then for some time yet; but I shall so arrange matters that each time that I pass down thy omnivorous throat, I may be developing my will moro and more. Thus if I have no will to defy thee with this time, next time I shall have an ounce of it, and in the second, about a pound, then a ton, and, finally, an irresistible, inexbaustible store! Then I shall crush thee tbrough the fingers of my hand, so to speak. Beware, then, and let my challenge be registered !' The challenge tbrown out, the sädhu is never afraid of death, but seeks to encounter it howsoever and where soe. ver it may come. He does not for that reason run away from any place, nor turn away, through fear, from any situation in which he finds himself placed. As already
ife bas but one occupation for bim now-the conquest of the eternal enemy !-and he goes about fearlessly, ready to face it any where and at any time, unflinchingly. If he is insulted or attacked by man or beast or even by any form of super-human agency, he will not move an inch, but will strive his utmost to remain absolutely trarquil and unruffled. avoiding oven the cherishing of an angry thought in his mind. He has destroyed all sense of attachmont to his body, and cannot, therefore, regard its affli. ctions and inflictions as his own in any sense. Ho who beats or insults his body, therefore, does nothing which be can or ought to resent. Similarly, he has no love left in him for his personality-the name which he bore when he was not ordained, and the appurtenant personal paraphernalia that he pogsessed as a householder. It is not possi. ble for any one to distrub him by slandering his good name, for that reason. When attacked he does not even wish
| SR No. | 032175 |
| Book Title | Mrutyu Mahotsav |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sadasukh Das, Virendra Prasad Jain |
| Publisher | Akhil Vishva Jain Mission |
| Publication Year | 1958 |
| Total Pages | 48 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 8 MB |