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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
| Date: |
05 Aug 2005 04:15:28 AM |
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Jainism |
A deadly belief is reborn: Beyond life, beyond death
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article303493.ece
When Shradha Shri decided to starve herself to death hundreds came to
watch. Fasting to achieve nirvana is one of Jainism's holiest rites and
is making a revival, reports Justin Huggler from Vidisha
Published: 04 August 2005
In an upstairs room of a nondescript building down a narrow, winding
lane, a woman died yesterday. For the past seven weeks she had been
starving herself to death, and hundreds of visitors came to watch her
slowly die. But it wasn't just morbid curiosity. Those who were allowed
into the room knelt before the woman in reverence and touched their
heads to the floor.
Shradha Shri was performing sallekhana, one of the holiest rites of the
Jain religion: fasting to death. Jains, who, like Hindus, believe in
reincarnation, believe that sallekhana can free a soul from the endless
cycle of rebirth and death.
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