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Pandit Ajit Prasad :. The persian word for Death are " Intiqual " change, “ Rahlat", march, “ Safar” and “ Kuch " Jouruey, “Guzar Jana ” passing away, “Uth Jana” rising upwards
The Sanskrit words alta, T rat, end of the body, fattare, aceta residence in heaven, the other world, signify the same fact.
In the sacred texts of the Havan Mantras prescribed in Mahapurana, by shri Jina Seua Acharya, the words of blessings are अपमृत्युविनाशनं भवतु समाधिमरणं भवतु May a bad death never befall you, may you have a calm and serene death. Death is an inevitable fact, and must ever be present to the mind of every thinking, individual. What is to be avoided and guarded against is not death, but a painful death, an agovising death, a sinful death, a cowardly death, death by suic “ It is as natural to die as to be born" says Lord Bacon. The poet Chatterton exclaimed:
Now Death as welcome to me comes,
As ever the month of May. Revd. Dr. Young calls death, “the Crown of Life" and " the Prince of Peace" and says that “death gives us more than was in Eden lost.”. He says again:
“ Man makes a death which nature never made;
And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one." The philosopher Seneca said: “ He who has learnt to die, has unlearnt slavery: he is above all power, certainly beyond all."
Jain philosophers have called death a HETETE a grand-festival, a splendid occasion for joy. A Sravak, Right-believer, seeing death approaching speaks to the assembled friends and relations in terms below:
" Dear friends,
When one starts on a Journey to another village, you make all sorts of auspicious arrangements. Why should you now weep when I am about to start on a long distant Journey to another condition of life and create inauspicious surroundings. Help me,
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[ Shree Atmaramji
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