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Study question (generated from the text)
Whatever signs appear that are wholly contrary to a person's own earlier nature and disposition are called rishta by the Jinas. Death should never be announced to people gripped by fear of old age, disease and death who know nothing of other lives, but should certainly be told to those who, frightened by wandering through the four states of existence, seek liberation.
Detailed answer
The commentary says that the news can terrify the fearful so that diseases arise and they die before their time, and that a very timid person may give up life at once; those seeking liberation should in turn hear the signs of their own time of death gladly. The signs are said to appear in people who still seem healthy.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Appendix: Rishta
- Extraction tasks
- T29
- Record id
- qa_T29_01