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MANAV DHARMA / 73 Namaskar Mantra and should face the coming death very calmly and patiently. He should also be careful that the following mentioned faults should not occur in his mind at all.
जीवित मरणाशंसे . भयमित्र स्मृति निदान नामानः । सल्लेखनातिचाराः पञ्च जिनेन्द्रैः समादिष्टाः ॥१२९॥
Explanation :
Entering a desire to live, wishing for speedy death, displaying fear, desiring to see or to be remembered to friends, looking forward to future sense enjoyment (in the life to come), these have been described as the transgressions of Sallekhana by Lord Jinendra Deo (Lord of Conquerors)
Description :
The man who is observing Sallekhana should be very careful in discarding such thoughts which may prove transgressions of Sallekhana. If he thinks, (1) "I adopt Sallekhana and I have also renounced solid food and if I remain alive for some moretime or for many more days, then wthat will happen to me? It would be better if I die as early as possible (2) If, in between, the pain for thirst and hunger increases, it will become highly difficult to tolerate that suffering and soon such kind of fear may develop. (3) No doubt, life and death, both are under the supremay of God or 'Karam'. Desiring to meet some old friend or to have a good talk with him, before the death is a kind of deceit. (4) Having a desire for future sense enjoyment and to get more and more objects of pleasure in the life to come, all such thinking are like a severe blame on a man observing Sallekhana and are obstacles for mental peace and transquility and only with absence of these faults and keeping the pious thought in the mind the Sallekhana Vrata can be a success.
निः श्रेयसमभ्युदयं निस्तीरं दुस्तरं सुखाम्बु निधिम् । निः पिवति पीतधर्मा सर्वैर्दु:खैरनालीढ़ः ॥ १३० ॥ Explanation :
He who has quaffed (to drink in long long draughts) the Nectar of Dharma (such an observer of the Sallekhana vow) becomes freed from all kinds of pain, and drinks from the endless, unsurpassed and exalted ocean of blissfulness of "Moksha".
The soul, who successfully observes the Sallekhana vow, escapes from the pain and misery of 'Samsara' and speedily attains to Moksha, than which no status is more exalted in the three worlds. He then
