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He should leave home, vehicles, family and all possessions and go north or east to a large, pure, quiet place free of creatures, such as a place of pilgrimage, a Jina temple, a garden or a forest, worship and meditate there and, wishing for samadhi-marana, take up sallekhana when the time draws near.
Detailed answer
Seated facing east or north on clean ground, a rock or sand, he first worships the guardian of the place, then the Jinas and the twenty-four Tirthankaras, practises dharmya and shukla meditation as his strength allows and contemplates the five-fold salutation. The appendix closes by urging the best of sages to keep the mind firm, reflect on birth, old age, death and the impermanence of the body, and go forward in the austerity that leads to liberation.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Appendix: Rishta
- Extraction tasks
- T29
- Record id
- qa_T29_04