Mrutyu Mahotsav

Author(s): Sadasukh Das, Virendra Prasad Jain
Publisher: Akhil Vishva Jain Mission

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How to Die ? (By Late Shri Champt Rui Jain, Bar.at-law)
The one undertaking or business of the sädhu is the overtbrow of death, which is held in the utmost cread by the generality of mankind. The sādhu aims at its destruc
tion from the very commencement. nay, he cannot be said to have any other aim orambition in life than the mastery of this the most dreaded of foes. He gave up all undertakings and occupations on the eighthstep (pratimä) of the ho. useholder's path, distributed and gave a way all his possessions, exce. pting a few wearing apparel, on the ninth step, renounced all concern with worldly matters on the tenth step and
dissociated himShri C. R. Jain
self with all else except the strip of a longoti, the feather whisk and the bowl on the eleventh. The langoti, too, is gone now ! In a word he has no earthly ambitions and pursuits left to obsess his mind as a sannyäsin. Personal comforts he no