Chapter VIII (How to Die) of the book “Sannyasa-Dharma”
The one undertaking or business of the sādhu is the overthrow of death, which is held in the utmost dread by the generality of mankind. The…
Ācārya Pujyapāda in Sarvārthasiddhi makes clear that sallekhanā is making the physical body and the internal passions emaciated by abandoning their sources gradually at the approach of death. The householder observes…
175. The householder should court voluntary death (sallekhanā) at the end of his life, always thinking fervently that only this (sallekhanā) will enable him to carry with him his wealth of piety.
The soul is a simple substance and as such immortal. Death is only for compounds, whose dissolution is termed disintegration, and death, when it has reference to a living organism, that is a compound of spirit and…
Death is a horrid theme. No one is happy at the thought of it, even thoughtless, irresponsible youth, who lightly talks of it. According to Rousseau, the man who professes not to fear death is a liar! This is true in all cases…
