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[Some Jain Concepts and Conduct
The fasting unto death is undertaken in three different ways namely (1) padovagamanam (2) inginimaranam (3) bhattapaccakkhanam. In the first, the practitioner does not indulge in any kind of movement and remains first as straight as a tree. In this penance the practitioner is prohibited any kind of help or assistance to do any service to himself or get any service done by others. This is the highest kind of fasting for death, which is possible only for a person enjoying best health in respect of samhanana.
In the second, he can move about a fixed area delimited by him voluntary. In this kind of fasting the practitioner can serve himself but can not take service from anybody else. This type of fasting also is possible for a person of good saṁhanana. In the third, he is free to move about and can take service from others and can serve himself. He can engage a retinue of forty eight waiters for himself who should be monk.59
The five aticāras of saṁlekhanā are :(i) ihalogasamsappaoga - desire for a fortunate birth in the
human world. (ii) paralogasamsappaoga - desire for a fortunate birth in reign
of gods. (iii) jivayasamsappaoga - desire for a long life as an observer
of fasting unto death. (iv) maraṇasamsappaoga - desire for quick death. (V) Kāmabhogasamsappaoga - desire for sexual pleasure
occruing from the fasting. 6 The three ambitions of a śrāvaka (1) The first ambition is to prepare for monastic life by giving
up all possessions small and big (2) His second ambition is to renounce worldly life and become
a monk.
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