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GLIMPSES ALONG LIFE'S JOURNEY 45 joy to all became his noble mission in life. He had already succeeded in bringing his lower self under his control; but now he redoubled his efforts to attain to perfection in self-abnegation and in impassibility. His life, as a saint, was characterized by watchfulness, study and investigation of Truth, penances and fasts, service of saints, and by rigid self-denial, generally. He loosened his evil karmas considerably, and acquired the true scientific insight into the causes of embodiment and suffering, that is, Right Faith. Strictly speaking. Religion is not begun till all superstitions including the one that is centred round the notion of a creator who made or makes the world and living beings are not completely destroyed. The Faith Bajranābhi now possessed was without superstition, and steady like the edge of a sword, in respect of discriminating intelligence.
At the end of his life, Bajranābhi performed the auspicious sallekhanā, that is coveted by all seekers after emancipation from the clutches of calamity and death. He rose to the region of the super-heavens.
The eight brothers of Bajranābhi and the Seth's son, Dhana Mitra, also attained to the same super-heaven, as the result of the practising of severe soul-purifying austerities.
