14 Feb 2022
[Smt. Chhanda asked: Swami, during a discussion, my friend Dr. Debdutta Lahiri asked the following question on her aunt's death last week. I am putting forth the question she asked: “My aunt died after 7 years of vegetative state. She was full of life, dynamic and pious until a cerebral attack near-paralyzed her. She was in a comatose state during the last few days. On the day of her death, her daughter read out Adya Stotram while she was still in a coma. A minute before her death, she suddenly opened her eyes as if she was completely normal and woke up from sleep. She turned her eyes around the room, then took a deep breath in and finally breathed out. This was her last breath. What do her last moments mean? How could she suddenly look normal a minute before death?” Please clarify this doubt. At Your divine lotus feet, Chhanda.]
Swami replied: - If you remember, I composed two Sanskrit verses in order to strengthen Yoga, which will help the soul in the last minutes of life. Every soul gets tremendous intelligence in the last minutes of death by which the soul realizes that it has wasted all its life in the love of the worldly bonds, which are unable to protect it in this last juncture of life. The soul also realizes that it did not spend time for the sake of God, who alone can protect it in this time. Due to this, the worldly bonds are surrounding the soul, but, are unable to protect the soul. God, who can protect the soul in this time is not coming, who was never cared for. This is called as death intelligence or Mṛtyu Jñānam. After this, the soul will undergo silent torture within the mind thinking that it did not realize this truth when lot of time existed in the life and that when the realization came, time did not exist at all! Such last torture, which is silent since nobody can help in that moment in any way! I am writing those two Sanskrit verses below: -
1) Death intelligence or Mṛtyu Jñānam: -
Yebhyo me jīvitaṃ sarvam
Nītam te nā'dya rakṣkāḥ ।
Amato rakṣako naiti
Tat mṛtyu jñāna mantyajam ।।
2) Death torture or Maraṇa Vedanā: -
Samaye sati na jñānam
Jñānetu samayo na ca ।
iti mouna vyathā bhūyo
jātā maraṇa vedanā ।।
If one reads these two verses 10 times every day, such a soul will not face the above two mentioned dangers since his union with God (Yoga) will be firmly established. The last minutes of any soul exist in climax intelligence just like the lamp glows very bright at the time of disappearance!
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