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…