From a spiritual standpoint, what does it mean to achieve 'self-salvation' by leaving the body before a saint, as the tiger did?

Achieving 'self-salvation' by leaving the body before a saint, as illustrated in Chapter 31, is the ultimate spiritual attainment. It means that the death is not considered a death in the ordinary sense but a direct path to liberation. The text states that for such a soul, 'there is no return,' meaning the cycle of rebirth is broken. This act serves as an 'atonement for all sins,' and the being is said to have conquered the mortal world. By dying under the saint's gaze, the three sufferings, three states, and three gunas are destroyed, and the soul becomes attribute-less. It is described as the highest fortune, a divine arrangement that breaks all karmic bonds and ends all suffering.