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इस प्रकार यह (मरण) मोहमुक्त भिक्षुओं का आयतन (आश्रय) हितकर, सुखकर या कालोचित निःश्रेयस्कर और भवान्तर में साथ चलने वाला होता है।
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225. If an ascetic realizes that now it is gradually becoming impossible for him to sustain the body for his essential (ascetic) duties, he should gradually reduce his food intake through austerities. While reducing the food intake he should also reduce his passions. After reducing passions he should acquire mental serenity. Becoming thin by levelling both sides, body and passion, like a plank of wood, that ascetic should make himself stable (free of agitations of body and mind) and prepare to embrace meditational death.
If that ascetic has enough energy to walk, he should go to a village, city, kraal, borough, harbour, hamlet, mine, hermitage, district, state, or capital (any populated place) and beg for hay or a stack of straw. When he gets a stack of straw he should retire into seclusion outside (the village, etc.). In the secluded area he should look for a spot free of eggs of insects, creatures, seeds, greenery, dew, water, ant-holes, mildew, moss, marsh, and cobwebs. He should then thoroughly clean that spot and make a bed of straw there. Then he should occupy the straw-bed and observe itvarik fast (fasting for a predetermined period).
That itvarik fast is true (right activity). The ascetic who has taken that vow (and is steadfast in observing it) is truthful. He is free of attachment and aversion and is destined to cross the worldly ocean. He is free of ambiguities like-Will I be able to carry out the vow of fasting unto death, or not ? He thoroughly knows all about beings, and other fundamentals. He is capable of crossing the worldly ocean and is not influenced by circumstances. Considering this body to be destructible, winning various types of afflictions and torments, having the विमोक्ष : अष्टम अध्ययन
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