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What is interesting about the narrative is how diverse thought processes of people, allow them to intermingle to make a social fabric, which exists even to this day.!!!!
Appreciate the information in the article but there is a mistake the author has made. Sallekhana cannot be termed as “ritual suicide”
Suicide is something done with a disturbed state of mind and is escapist. Sallekhana is the polar opposite, it is the giving up of the body, when it is no longer useful for penance and following the vows of Ahimsa in Jainism. It is carried out with a completely peaceful state of mind. It is the masterful art that only the most austere can perform, to equate it with suicide in any form is entirely a misrepresentation.
I please request the author to make this necessary change so as to be accurate with his words, as it can take on a different meaning otherwise.
What is interesting about the narrative is how diverse thought processes of people, allow them to intermingle to make a social fabric, which exists even to this day.!!!!
Appreciate the information in the article but there is a mistake the author has made. Sallekhana cannot be termed as “ritual suicide”
Suicide is something done with a disturbed state of mind and is escapist. Sallekhana is the polar opposite, it is the giving up of the body, when it is no longer useful for penance and following the vows of Ahimsa in Jainism. It is carried out with a completely peaceful state of mind. It is the masterful art that only the most austere can perform, to equate it with suicide in any form is entirely a misrepresentation.
I please request the author to make this necessary change so as to be accurate with his words, as it can take on a different meaning otherwise.