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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Samādhimarana : An Auspicious Death
Samadhimarana is an austere means of adopting self-immolation. Renunciation is its motto; attainment of highest spiritual upliftment is its basic goal. Everybody should adopt it, but not at any stage. Texts prescribe some essential qualifications for its adoption viz. "When one is nearing his end, and when normal life according to religion is not possible due to old age, incurable disease, severe famine, least amount of passion, peaceful mind, have control over adverses etc.9" With this qualities the practiser subjugates all passions and abandonment of all worldly attachements, by observance of austerities gradually abstaining from food, water and by simultaneous meditation on the real nature of the self until the soul parts from the body.
At the seat of Samadhimarana, the seeker keeps himself away from all grief, fear, regret, affection, hatred, prejudice etc., and with strength of mind and enthusiasm. He should keep his mind supremely happy with the nectar of spiritual knowledge. He should gradually give up food and take liquids like milk etc. Later on he should even give up milk etc. and take only warm and fast according to his strength and capacity, and quit the body while engrossed in his mind with the meditation of the five saluation mantras, 10
One, who once accept the vow of Samādhimarana must avoid the five transgressions up to the end of the vow. The transgressions are " (a) A feeling that it would have been better if death come little latter; (b) Wishing for a speedy death; (c) entertaining fear as how he would bear the pangs of death; (d) remembring friends and relatives at the time of death; (e) Wishing for a particular kind of fruit as a result of penance. Avoidance of the above transgressions are essential, otherwise the vow may become invalid.
On the basis of above discussion we may opine that Samādhimarana is really an auspicious form of adopted death and underlying the concept that "Man who is the master of his own destiny, should face death in such a way, as to prevent influx of new karmas even at the last moment of his life, and at the same time liberate the soul from bondage of karmas, that may be clinging to it then, it is the supreme object of all religion, not only of Jainism.
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