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for surgery in hospital if only Minor surgeries like cotract or hernia are performed in upasrayas by doctors, which does not require hospitalization.
But in unbearable pain, life threatening diseases or in accidental cases if required, if they wish can renounce or break monkhood & acquire again mundane world life & go for surgery as mundane being & not as a monk. After recovery of health & procedure of repentance if they wish can again accept monkhood i.e. After surgery is done if he has recovered fully & able to perform his duties & vratas of monkhood then in that case from mundane life he can again take vow of monks & can become monk. In such cases some sects are very much conservative, some are some what liberal, & some are liberal. But in no case they can accept organic organ transplant. Inorganic transplant like steel is accepted. But with organic organ transplant no such surgery is allowed, monk will prefer to take Samadhi maraon or sallekhana but will not accept blood transfusion or organ transplant. Recently Acarya Tarunsagarji is suffering from brain tumor but he refused to leave monkhood & go for surgery rather he prefer to take Samadhi. Conclusion :
At certain moment a doctor will determine, That my brain has ceased to function & that for all intents & purposes my life has stopped, when that happens don't call this my death bed, call it my bed of life & let my body's each & every inch use for giving to many & let me live separately in many units.
Give my eyes who has never seen, Colors, rainbow, & blooming flowers. Give my heart to throb, feel, love & joy. Give my blood to soldiers, who fights for nation. Give my kidney to teenager who has yet to see world. Give my bone marrow, who is suffering of leukemia. Give my bones who has broken limbs in accident. Give my liver to those who has pain of liver diseases. Give my pancreas who is suffering from diabetes. Give my brain who is suffering from paralysis. Give my veins in vascular reconstruction to restore blood. Give my tissue to repair limbs & facial defects. Give my bladder to boost muscle tone & reduce leakage
Give away every fibre, tissue, vein to make crippled child walk, Explore every corner & use everything for giving life.
What is left burn to ashes and spread on land, where heap of flowers grow.
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