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his usual route, crossed a street and he was struck down by a car. His injury was serious and he was taken to the hospital.
At the hospital, he asked to call his wife and while he was speaking with her on the telephone, it became obvious that he had suffered a severe head injury. His wife rushed to the hospital and by the time she got there, her husband was struggling to stay alive. The doctors told her to wait and not to give up hope; but after a few hours, the secretary died. Because the secretary and his wife were very devoted to each other, and they shared the same ideas about religion and karma, there was to be no weeping or expression of emotions at his funeral. For they believed that when someone dies, it is the law of karma that determines the death and we must accept death with balance and peacefulness. We are physical beings with many connections to nature and culture, but we are essentially a divine soul that is not affected by the law of karma. So the meaning of death is the ending of our worldly personhood and physical being. When I went to see the body of the secretary, thousands of other people were there weeping and expressing their grief. But the wife of the secretary was not crying or grieving and we spoke very peacefully and rationally about her husband. During our conversation she asked me if I could contact the Spirit of her husband and convey any messages or requests to her that he might have. I told her that
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