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
Dadashri: The root cause of suicide is that in one of his past lives he had committed suicide, the effects of that act is carried forward through seven more lives. When you drop a ball from a height of about three feet, it will bounce back up and with each subsequent bounce, the height it bounces up is reduced and eventually the ball ceases to bounce. That is a natural process, a natural principle of motion. Similarly if a person commits suicide just once, then this act is perpetuated for seven more lives. The intensity of the effects carried forward is not visible but they decrease each time and eventually coming to an end.
In The Final Moments...
In the final hour of his death, his next life is decided based on his spiritual evolutionary status, which is determined by the result of the final analysis of his balance sheet. This balance sheet is not an accounting of his entire life's activities, but his coming life form and the middle portion. The middle represents the last hour, the current final event. For example, if he is preoccupied with the welfare of his young unmarried daughter, a dominant theme in the last hour of his life, he will bind a life in the animal kingdom. This preoccupation is part of the balance sheet.
People have been taught to utter holy words and scripts in the ears of the dying man but in reality the dying person will only be able to make a positive use of this if he has bound the merit karma to do so, otherwise he will be preoccupied with worries about his daughter who he leaves behind.
The summary of the balance sheet will carry forward. In this regard, the good done in older age is much more effective and carries more weight compared to the same done in youth.
The First Photograph Of Next Life
At the time of death, a balance sheet of the dying person's entire life's activities arises in front of him. As he reads this summary of his life in 45 minutes, his new body for next life is formed. In this duration, he may become a fodder eating animal or a bread eating human being. This is the great importance of Kaliyug and this effect of the current time cycle is such that it is extremely difficult to acquire a human form again!
Questioner: In the final moments of death, who knows when the ears stop receiving the holy messages uttered in the dying man's ears?
Dadashri: Many people will whisper in the dying person's ear and tell him to recite Lord Rama's name. The fools! Why do they ask him to recall Lord Rama when he is no longer around and is in a Siddha State, without a body?
Questioner: Please tell us exactly what happens in the final hour of the life of a dying man.
Dadashri: In the ultimate end, whatever has been deposited into one's karmic account) thus far will carry forward.
The law of nature is very precise in what it sends forward, nevertheless the Vitarag, the Omniscient Lord, cautions us to maintain awareness as we approach the age of fifty.
If a person is to live seventy-five years, the first imprint, photograph (for next life) will be created at age fifty. For a life span of sixty years the first snap is taken at the age of forty. For a life span of eighty-one years, it takes place at age of fifty-four. Until the time of this first photograph, your life is free; it does not cost you anything. The first two-thirds of your life is free. It is the last third that is consequential; your actions during the last third of your life are imprinted on the balance sheet, which will come in front of you in the last hour of your life. Is this a fair or an oppressive