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Appendix I : Scriptures Quoted शोकं भयमवसादं क्लेशं कालुष्यमरतिमपि हित्वा ।
सत्त्वोत्साहमुदीर्य च मनः प्रसाद्यं श्रुतैरमृतैः ॥१२६।। AFTER banishing all grief, fear, anguish, attachment, wickedness and hatred, one should keep one's mind pleased with the nectar of scriptures with all energy and enthusiasm.
आहारं परिहाप्य क्रमशः स्निग्धं विवर्धयेत्पानम् । स्निग्धं च हापयित्वा खरपानं पूरयेत्क्रमशः ॥१२७।।
खरपानहापनामपि कृत्वा कृत्वोपवासमपि शक्त्या ।
पञ्चनमस्कारमनास्तनुं त्यजेत्सर्वयत्नेन ॥१२८॥ ONE should give up gradually all solid foods, increase the taking of liquids like milk, then give up even liquids gradually and take warm water. THEREAFTER, one should give up warm water also, observe fast to the best of one's ability with determination and depart from the body repeating the namokār-mantra continuously till the last.
जीवित-मरणाशंसे भय-मित्रस्मृति-निदाननामानः ।
सल्लेखनातिचाराः पञ्च जिनेन्द्रः समादिष्टाः ॥१२९॥ DURING the observance of the vow, one should not commit any of the transgressions : entenrtaining a desire to live, wishing for speedy death, exhibiting fear, or desire to meet friends or remember them or expecting to be born with all comforts and pleasure in the next life.
2. REALITY, Canto VII, Sutra 22
मारणान्तिकी सल्लेखनां जोषिता । THE vow of Sallekhanā should be adopted with pleasure when death is near at hand.
3. SAGARA-DHARM AM RTA, Canto VIII, Verse 5
न धर्मसाधनमिति स्थास्नु नश्यं वपुर्बुधैः । न च केनापि नो रक्ष्यमिति शोच्यं विनश्वरम् ॥
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