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preparations for samadhi-marana. That is why everyone should think about their samadhi-marana and make preparations for the same.
So the question arises like what samadhimarana is? And what are the preparations for it? samadhi-marana is to leave the present body with oneness and awareness of being Soul (experiencing the Soul) which results in blissfulness. That is to leave this body with the experience of being Soul. Thus death coupled with Samyagdarshana is called samadhi-marana. The importance of the samadhimarana is - that Soul goes from this world along with Samyagdarshana otherwise one gets devoid of the Samyagdarshana at the time of death. For preparing oneself for samadhi-marana people are seen contemplating for santhara (vow of voluntary death), they are seen doing their last alochana (introspection, examine critically one's evil deeds), they are seen searching for niryapakaacharya who can help them and assist them in their samadhi-marana. Yet people are unaware of Samyagdarshana which is indispensable and core condition of the samadhi-marana. That is why for the preparation of samadhi-marana one should solemnly resolve to dedicate one's entire life for attaining Samyagdarshana. Because even though after doing everything else for innumerable/
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