Agam 26 Prakirnak 03 Maha Pacchakhana Sutra

Author(s): Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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MAHĀPRATYĀKHYĀNA PRAKĪRNAKA : 31
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Fasting (unto death) and Prāyopagamana (are enlightened deaths) and meditation and contemplation only are its supporting factors. Knowing them, only the masters praise the enlightened death,
THE NON-PRACTITIONER
93.
One engaged in the pursuit of sensual pleasures, defeated by frightening afflictions (difficult hardships), attached to non-spiritual mundane things, uninitiated and impatient aspirant gets shaken while undertaking the end-practice of equanimous death.
94.
The pupils, who do not confess their misconduct in the presence of their gurus for shame, pride, and vanity of their scriptural learning are non-practitioners of the true faith.
THE GLORY OF PROPER SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
95.
One, who practises severe penance, purities; one, who knows the path of spiritual enhancement attains glory and the practice of the one, who atones for one's faults and misdeeds, becomes beneficial.
96.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PURITY OF HEART The equanimity in death is neither attained by lying down on the grass-bed prepared for the purpose nor is it attained by the flawless ground on which it is laid; the soul whose mind is well established in purity is the liberating soul.