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SANNYASA DHARMA
highest form of will-developing vairagya, 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 dişregards 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 sallekḥanā 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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