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ભાદ્રપદથી-કાર્તક ૧૯૮૫-૬ એક લાષ દેવૈ પરા દુરગ વસું છું આયા
ઉઠયો વચન સુણી કરી, લઘુ બંધવ હરિ રાંણુ પા વલતી ભોજાઇ કહે વચન બુરે ચિત લાય ના કેપ અંગ તિણ વેલ ઘણુ કહ્યા વસાઉ દંગ ! દેવરજી સુણો તુમહે કિસે કેટ છે સૂના એમ કહી આ સહર, બહુ પિરસ અંગ ૬ થા વિણ આયતું હી સરે રાષે થે અબ મૂન જો ઉપલને પાસે જઈ વદે પાછલી વાત છે વડ ધરણુ વષાણુર્વે છોટે ઊડ જાંણુ
ભોજાઈ મોસે દી સુવાલ મુઝ તાત ||ળા
India and Religious Suicide. Reflections on Martyrdom of Jatindas.
(By G. K. N.) The death of the young Bengali countenance, at any rate, voluntary Jatindas, by the grim resolve of death as appropriate consummation starvation, has aroused considerable of an anchorite's career, though interest abroad. He is believed in other Shastric texts would seem not some quarters to have imitated the to sanction it. Irish patriot Mc Swiney. It is, how. Buddhist Teachings. ever, a common place of the history. The intention behind the genuine of Indian religions that such extreme
Buddhist texts, which I hope to exasteps to gain a spiritual object nor
mine on another occasion is much religious beatitude are not novel or
less clear. As Vallee Poussin shows, have been unknown in this land of
the precepts recommending and also ours, where far more pains are taken
prohibiting suicide are strewn over for a guarantee of happiness in the
the "Pitakas." The Buddha himself next world than here below.
prohibits such suicide on one occa. All the great indigenous religions sion. On the other hand, selfsacrifice of India recognise the stoic end put to in honour of the Buddha is highly one's natural life. We in India are commended in the Bodhisattwa or a familiar with religious suicide as occa- being who is qualifying for Buddhasionally committed by devout Hindus. hood. One of the Buddhist sacred Under a vow to some deity they books, the "Parajika" denounces it. take poison, drown themselves, burn Suicide is regarded as a desperate themselves, throw themselves down a effort of disgust and desire, both of precipice or die by slow starvation. which should be avoided by a follower In Brahmanism, Manu appears to of the Buddha. On the other hand,
