Words To Die By?

[Guest guest]

My father is dying (Parkinsons Dementia)I cant find words of comfort for him.His whole life has been a search for jesus(from Mormonism to Jesus Seminar) and I think he is afraid to let go.Any ideas on some words of peace in his final days?

I thankyou in advance for anything that can help him

 

[Guest guest]

it seems he did not complete his search and has no clear idea of god. there is no time to enlighten him.

just give him love and care and full full any of hislast wishes.

 

then tell him you will pray for peace in this life and after life. Then pray to krishna if you have faith in krishna. I would, even though I do not know you or him.

 

jai sri krishna! -madhav

 

[Jahnava Nitai Das]

The Bhagavatam teaches us, ante narayana smritih: "Life is perfected if at the time of death we can think of the Supreme Lord."

 

Encourage your father to think of the Lord and chant His names to the best of his ability. In addition to this pray to the Lord on his behalf so that he will be given an elevated birth in his next life. The soul is eternal and beyond death. What we consider death is just like the changing of clothes in the night. When one set of clothes is dirty, we take it off and put on another. In the same way, when one body is old and no longer suitable, the soul is transfered to a new body to continue its spiritual journey.

 

You should read through the second chapter of the Gita and try to explain it to your father. This chapter deals with the eternality of the soul.

 

 

[Guest guest]

My mother was allways devoted to lord Jesus Christ whom she considered the Supreme Lord .

Never did I ever rem,enber a time when she lost her faith in Him.

At the time of her death there were only two things that took her mine away from the pain prayer and morphine.

Our family are all Roman Cathloic and I am the only one in my family who has taken to Krishna Bhakti but at her death her catholic son and daughters were not praying with her after afew minutes they were finished.

So I began to chant to her Hare Krishna Bajans in as many tunes as I knew and the whole family appreicated

I also placed my tusli japa mala around her head and a medal of Lord Naranya being carried by Gadruda

Which she worn until she past away

Actually at death she had become very beauitiful

Take Care

ys

Pita das

[Guest guest]

I am sorry to hear that about your father. To comfort him at the time of death he should think about this :

 

Supreme Lord says:

"He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Partha, is sure to reach Me." Chapter 8 , text 9 in Bhagavath Gita (Song of the lord).

 

Supreme Lord says : "For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Prtha, because of his constant engagement in devotional service. "(text 14, chapter 8 in bhagavath Gita)

 

"After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection." (text 15 of bhagavath Gita)

 

Somewhere in bhagavath Gita that one who constantly remembers krishna with out deviation, lives in Him and Krishna lives in he.

 

Again, I am sorry to hear that, but disease, oldage and all the other factors are inevitable realities in our lives here in the material world.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hare Krsna

 

there was a very interesting yet sad article in the previous issue of BTG magazine. In this was a moving story of a Krishna Concious couple who were married and living with their father. the father would eat meat and always engage himself in his sense gratification. The couple had to accept this as he was the father of the husband. They found a way of co-oporating with his life style and they got on with their daily duties of waking up early and doing what vaishnavas are supposed to. In time the father got ill of his old age and maya had caught up with him. The husband and wife then realised that his condition had gotton so bad that he will soon pass away. They agreed to then then pursuade his one more time to become more aware of Krishna. They had on many previous occasions failed to turn their father in a Krishna conscious person. They slowly started to bring pictures of the Lord near him and were allways by his bed side chanting the Holy name. Gradualy he started to enjoy the names and pastimes of the lord and wanted to hear more and more. Over time he was himself chanting the Maha Mantra and wore a set of neck beads and constantly wanted to hear kirtan, see pictures of Krishna and chant all day while he lay in his bed. The day came where the husband and wife knew that he was in his last moments and all he could say was "Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.........." The couple were by his side constantly chanting and glorifying the lord. The father then passed away. They had a traditional cremation and the last rites were performed correctly. The couple had felt that they had achieved a lot in what they did for their father.

 

All one needs to do is remember Krishna at the time of death and he will attain Krishna, as stated in the Bhagavat Gita by Krishna himself.

 

I wish that you will be sucessfull in the time that lies ahead and that your father attains the spiritual abode of the supreme master!

 

Haribol

 

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