Book Title: Account of Jainism
Author(s): Unknown
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ An Account of observed only when a man feels certain that death is near at hand. The faults to be avoided in the complete observance of this Vow are (1) a desire for prolonging the days of life, (2) or for hastening death, ( 3 ) fearing death and its pain(4) remembering friends & relations and (5) wishing for certain fruits of the [meritorious] acts done. A man who dies aSallekhana death, surely reaches the heavens or attains the Moksha. 28 Then comes the third, the Samayika stage. It consists in the faultless keeping of the Samayika Vow. The fourth stage is named after The Sama and consists in the regular obseryika Stage vance of the Proshadhopavas Vow. The fifth, called the Sachitt-tyaga stage, is the one in which a man does not eat fruits, vegetables, roots, branches, seeds and flowers that are not dried or ripe or boiled. The sixth consists in abandoning the habit of eating, drinking, licking and chewing beetlenuts and par from sunset to sunrise. The seventh stage re : Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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