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But when you take vow of Sallekhana. you know that leaving food & water will end his life. Or by this vow you will achieve salvation. So without intending intention is there, motive is there, to end life for good in his next life. So it is not desireless but with desire. It is voluntary & when after taking vow you don't allow to break the vow then it becomes involuntary ending of life.
When you are eating food & drinking water & breathing air of this world to get life you should give back something to the world by your effort, work according to your capacity & ability till death occurs. Life & death are natural process & we should not intervene.
Sallekhaha Euthanasia & suicide all three are voluntary due to weaknesses, old age or disease, with spiritually. or due to suffering suicide is not dignified while Sallekhana is dignified & respectful.
If sallekhana is laudable why vow is taken in weak circumstances like no one cares, who is suffering of incurable disease or burden to family because of old age unable to do their function or to earn name fame & attention of public. If person has all the happiness, worldly pleasure, health, wealth, respect, care, love, amenities to fun & joy will never think of sallekhana. Begger has nothing to detached from his life it will be real detachment when you have everything & you are getting detached from it is true spirituality. To be loyal to your work is spirituality to be lazy & lethargic a static situation is loss to you your family & your nation so live & do something till your last breath. Don't loose the game try again & again & win. Don't return back from journey, continue till end of life with effort & result will be success. Spiritual goal should be effort & not ending life.
If you take vow of sallekhana because of incurable disease & after taking vow you recovers your disease is cured & you are willing to break the vow & discontinuance is objected is wrong as he is not willing to end his life and so it is killing.
Whatever may be the intention or motive behind the death disappointment, frustration, emotional or sentimental loss, love affair, depression, disgrace, failure, sickness, old age may be voluntary with or without permission for good or bad religious back ground, devotion, elevation, of soul. Spirituality, gradually or hastily with impulse or non impulsive for self purification or ending of suffering, gradually or hastily actively or passively net result is destruction of life where decision taken because of momentary temporary Vairagya in unstable mind. You name it as cowardice, pious, heroic, holy, spiritual, religious, deginified or undignified there is prior ending of life before death.
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