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If you must bury something let it be my faults, my weaknesses unwise prejudices against my dear one. Give my sins to fire to burnt out & my soul to God. If this is done I will live for ever. 1) Organ transplant is for benefiting others life without harming donor or recipient without corrupt means for saving life is always good, ethical, moral spiritual. Helping near ones, dear ones, society by individuals own body is highest & spiritual thinking. But you should be careful in living person to living persons organ transplant. 2) Donor must be true & honest. 3) Administrator of organ or blood institute must be proper & genuine. . Aparigraha would contradict our position. In this view body itself is our possession. It somewhere tresses us to rise above our material body & to stick to all our transcendental true self. Here focus will be soul oriented final goal is self realization & in observing vow of sallekhana one willfully desires to donate his body after death is also accepted as one does not own his body but just dwells in it as a mediator of soul.
Jainism says in Acaranga Sutra - 74 - विमुत्ता हु ते जणा जे जणा पारणामिणो लोभमलोभण दुगुंछमाणे लब्ध कामे णाभिगाहई ।७४।
means who has conquered passion by compassion (Karuna) Mruduta softness, Rajuta-straight forwardness, satisfaction (shanti-santosh) etc. have achieved liberation.
One who has no attachment to body or greed for longing their life by corruption or harming others will not take organ by bribe-or paying heavy cost for vital organs to poor & for his own sake & put his life in danger or will shorten his life.
Vaiya Vachh - To help needy is vow out of twelve vows, external penance according to which helping the needy one who is in need of organ otherwise life of recipient will be in danger of end of life or he may cost his life to give someone life by donating organ is one of the most noble charity.
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