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always endeavour to strengthen him in his arduous faith and conduct, by means of the narration of stories of great ascetics who have successfully gone through the trying ordeal, as well as of discourses on the merit of dharma, propounding the doctrines of Faith and describing the terrible sufferings which unemancipated souls have undergone and shall have to undergo in their migratory career in the future.
The effect of these narrations is extremely soothing, and wonderful alltogether. It brings into manifestation something of the higher energy of the spiritualised will, that is an attribute of the soul, and that speedily puts an end to all kinds of lower cravings and undesirable forms of feelings filling the mind with the utmost degree of vairāgya (spirit of renunciation). With his soul resting, as it were the unshakable rock of Right Faith, his mind illumined with the light of pure Truth, that is Right Knowledge, and his actions all regulated and controlled by the highest form of will-developing vairāgya, namely Right Conduct, the saint is more than a match, for evil karma and the pain that is the progeny of karma. He disregards his suffering as a champion-athlete disregards the few scratches that he gets in a scuffle against his adversary. Thus filled with the spirit of holiness and vairāgya, he recites the great Obeisance mantram (auspicious formula) till the mortal coil is shuffled off, and sallekhanā terminates in a rebirth in the soul-enrapturing scenery and surroundings of the heavenly regions, the abodes of devas (celestial beings).
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