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immortal and it does not perish with the dissolution of the body. Selfimmolation is thus a religious practice in the Jaina system of thought. Lord Mahāvīra approved it and his zealous devotees practised it in his own life-time. It was nevertheless the result of evolution of a strong personality although the materialists will explain it as nothing but the expression of a fugitive mind - an escapist tendency, a device for fleeing away from the insoluble problems of life.
Sambhodhi 7-1.4
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