What a seeker of liberation should do when fatal signs appear

On seeing such signs directly, the discerning person should leave home, vehicles, family and all possessions and go north or east to a large, beautiful, pure and quiet place free of living creatures, such as a place of pilgrimage, a Jina temple, a garden or a forest. Seated facing east or north on clean ground, a rock or sand, he worships first the guardian of the place and then the Jinas and the twenty-four Tirthankaras, practises dharmya and shukla meditation as his strength allows and, wishing for samadhi-marana, contemplates the five-fold salutation, taking up sallekhana when the time draws near.