Death Before During and After

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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During, Before and After Death
During, Before and After Death
Companion Only till The Funeral Pyre
Questioner: No, it will not work. Dadashri: Why not?
Questioner: The balance sheet will reflect all the transactions for the entire year.
Dadashri: In the same token, it is the end sum of all the activities of one's entire life that is brought forward. In performing these rituals, people are deceiving the dying and all around him. They are making fools out of them by giving false promises.
Questioner: Dada, when a person is on his deathbed and at the end of his life, he is conscious and if at that time someone recites the Gita or any other religious scriptures in his ears ....
Dadashri: It should be done only at the request of the dying. One can read to him only if he wishes to listen
Euthanasia: Mercy Killing Questioner: When a person is suffering from a chronic illness for which there is no cure, it does not seem right to prolong their suffering. What is wrong with helping them end their suffering? In this respect it is hard to believe that if we help him by mercy killing, that his suffering will continue in the next life.
Dadashri: No one has a right to do that, whatsoever. We have a right to treat them and take care of them, but not to kill them.
Questioner: Where is the benefit for us in prolonging their suffering?
Dadashri: What is the benefit in killing, then? When you kill a suffering man, you will lose your birthright to be born as a human again. It goes against the principles of humanity.
The cover on this pillow will keep changing, but the pillow remains the same. When the pillow cover becomes ragged, it will be discarded. In the same way this covering of ours, this body too is discarded.
This whole world is hollow and without any substance. But one cannot say so openly in this world. People go to the cemetery with their loved ones, but they are not so overcome with grief that they never retum home. They all return home, including the grieving mother who has just buried her son.
Questioner: If the deceased has not bequeathed anything to the family, they will cry and complain. But if he leaves them enough, they will remain silent.
Dadashri: Yes, they shed tears because he leaves them nothing. In their minds they blame him for leaving nothing behind and ruining them. It is because of the family's own lack of punya - meritorious deeds - that he did not leave anything behind for them and it is because of the deceased's bad karmas that he is being cursed and blamed.
All who go to the funeral home, return, do they not? Does anyone accompany the dead one? Really, all this is a show. People criticize the ones who do not cry or grieve as being heartless. And they accuse those who cry as being emotional and melodramatic. So whatever one does, there is a problem either way. The world will criticize either way.
In the rest area near the funeral pyre you can see them sharing snacks even as the cremation is going on. Have you not seen this?
Questioner: They actually take snacks along with them!