Abandoning, with the help of the understanding, all purposes relating to body and mind, one gradually attains to cessation of separate existence, like a fire unfed with fuel.
विहाय सर्वसंकल्पान् बुद्ध्या शारीरमानसान्। शनैर्निर्वाणमाप्नोति निरिन्धन इवानलः॥