Tulsi Prajna 2000 01

SR No.: 524602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Samadhimarana : An Auspicious Death places engross the such faith that his death at that place provide liberation, the ultimate goal of every individual.
Suicides possess fanaticism under which one commits it and end his precious life : Poverty or economic reasons, Famine or scarcity. Incurable and painful diseases, Revenge, Real or imaginary grievances, Insanity, Results of partition, Climatic influences, Unemployment, Domestic troubles. Worries, Remorse, Shame, Extreme grief. Sad news, failure in love-affair. Under these fanaticism, the victims apply following methods, which end his life : Drowning, Hanging, Poisoning. Burning, Starving, Jumping or Falling from high places, Stabbing, Cutting throat or veins, Punishment etc.
Religious inactment has been the most significant causes of committing suicides. Rich and poor, kings and commoners, destitutes and beggars, monks and householders, have all alike been victims of this vagary, which defies all logic and reasoning. Very crude methods have been employed by those devotees to take their lives. They are generally (a) throwing onself under the wheel of the car of Jaggannath, (b) drowing oneself in sacred rivers like the Ganges or Sangama of two or more rivers. (c) Falling or jumping from trees or mountains, (d) Burning alive, (e) Belly-cutting. (f) Throat-cutting etc. All these above methods employed by those people who beleive in Hinduism or Buddhism. Jainas in normal circumstances reject all as these modes and methods of selfimmolation contain sense of violence.
Violence in any form either killing ownself or kill other, Jainas dejected that sense, at full of their strength They even disbelieve and deject the mental sense of violence. They argued that all those methods employed by seekers of selfimmolation possess a sense of speedy death and it may put forth to avoiding of pains, emerge by engrossing the several means of life termination. It is also a kind of passion, and death with passion is nothing but a violence. Thus in Jainism the concept of voluntary termination prescribe some pre-exercises to diminish the strength of passions,
Samădhimarana is a vow, the principle underlying in is that a practiser should while 'quitting flesh and bone' have complete peace of mind after voluntary acceptance of the vow, consistently with the pious life of self-restraint and austerities. Calmness, patience and mind undisturbed by emotions of joy or fear will conduce to purgation of karmas. It is mental peace that will lead to liberation from the karmas in life. So at death, one should keep equanimity of mind and die while engrossed in deep meditation. Jainism prescribes it as the final step for Takt 37 7937-HTE, 2000 AMINO WANAW 101