Ive heard about Jain people starving themselves to death. What is the story behind this?
Sallekhana is known as a religious death in Jainism. It does involve a gradual process of the cessation of consumption of food. However, it is a very sacred and controlled process; it must be performed by a person who truly understands central principles and by one who has committed to certain vows. The following is a description of sallekhana from Paul Dundas: In light of the general Indian belief that the last moment of life has a decisive bearing on the state of an individuals next birth and the specifically Jain teaching about the possibility of the destruction of karma through gradual withdrawal from mental and physical activity, it is hardly surprising that Jainism views the ideal mode of death as being a form of highly controlled wasting away through fasting. This process is known as sallekhana, in which the central austerity of cutting down the consumption of food is taken to its logical conclusion so that the body is scoured out (sallikhita) of its negative factors and the min
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