{"id":302038,"date":"2018-09-01T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302038"},"modified":"2018-09-01T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T05:41:06","slug":"jain-muni-tarun-sagar-dies-at-51-after-prolonged-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jain-muni-tarun-sagar-dies-at-51-after-prolonged-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Jain Muni Tarun Sagar dies at 51 after prolonged illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302039 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tarun-sagar-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tarun-sagar-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tarun-sagar.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jain Muni Tarun Sagar died after a prolonged illness on Saturday in New Delhi. He was 51.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Jain Muni breathed his last at around 3 am at Radhapuri Jain temple situated in Krishna Nagar area of east Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tarun Sagar\u2019s last rites will be held at Tarunsagaram, Muradnagar in Uttar Pradesh today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tarun Sagar was suffering from jaundice and was admitted to a private hospital nearly three weeks back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However,\u00a0His health continued to deteriorate and he\u00a0had reportedly stopped taking medicine following which he was brought to Radhapuri\u00a0temple where he opted for &#8216;Santhara&#8217; &#8211; the Jain ritual of fast unto death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tarun Sagar was born on June 26, 1967, in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Dahoh district, his original name was Pawan Kumar Jain. Tarun Sagar left his home in the year 1981 to accept celibacy and lead a life of a muni (monk).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the demise of Tarun Sagar. \u201cDeeply pained by the untimely demise of Muni Tarun Sagar Ji Maharaj. We will always remember him for his rich ideals, compassion and contribution to society. His noble teachings will continue inspiring people. My thoughts are with the Jain community and his countless disciples\u201d, tweeted Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jain Muni Tarun Sagar died after a prolonged illness on Saturday in New Delhi. He was 51. The Jain Muni breathed his last at around 3 am at Radhapuri Jain temple situated in Krishna Nagar area of east Delhi. Tarun Sagar\u2019s last rites will be held at Tarunsagaram, Muradnagar in Uttar Pradesh today. Tarun Sagar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[429,4541,4542,4540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302040,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302038\/revisions\/302040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}