Namah Shivaya

[Guest guest]

Just to add to the discussion regarding remembering

GOD at the

 

final moment, AMMA says, in many places, that the

thought at the

 

final moment depends on the kind of actions we have

done in this

 

life (and I presume in the past lives also). AMMA says

the past

 

is a cancelled cheque and probably that is why SHE

talks of

 

actions done in this life only. I feel that the

intensity and

 

sincerity with which these actions have been performed

also

 

matters. As somebody pointed out, the story of

'Ajamila' is a

 

classic case. Ajamila was the person who called his

son named

 

Narayana when the time of death came and was thereby

liberated.

 

This is because Ajamila was a great devotee of the

lord and had

 

fallen from the right path. But when he had done his

sadhana he

 

was very sincere. AMMA tells another story where a

business man

 

(hearing Ajamila's story) names his sons after various

gods, but

 

never does any spiritual practice. He lands up telling

"Oh ..

 

then who is at the shop ..." while dying.

 

There is an interesting real life incident. I read it

in the

 

book "Sriramakrishna As We Saw Him" by Swami

Chetanananda. It

 

goes like this. There was a sweeper in the temple of

Rani

 

Rasmani by name Rasik. Rasik was no spiritual person.

But he

 

loved Sriramakrishna a lot. He believed Sriramakrishna

was God.

 

One day after Sriramakrishna was diagnosed with

cancer, as

 

Sriramakrishna was strolling in the garden, Rasik fell

at his

 

feet and asked him "What will happen to me, Thakur?".

Rasik had

 

not done any sadhana (in the sense we know) in that

life. But

 

Sriramakrishna told him to continue serving the people

by

 

sweeping the temple premises (in short, to do his duty

well). He

 

promised Rasik that He would come to him at the final

moment, if

 

Rasik did so. Rasik was happy, but probably never

fully believed

 

this. At the time of Rasik's death Rasik got

Sriramakrishna's

 

darshan. Infact what Rasik said in his final moments

(not the

 

exact words) explains this. Rasik said, "Oh .. Thakur

is here to

 

take me. I never thought YOU would come ... but YOU

have kept

 

your word ... my Thakur has come." I think our AMMA

will also

 

come to all of us.

 

One last word to the discussion. I think this is the

sort of

 

liberation that happens at death. It is actually

before death ..

 

while we are in this body itself... and not after

death. So it

 

is enlightenment and liberation. I don't think both

are

 

different. We need not worry about what sort of

thought will

 

come to us at that final moment. It is AMMA's

responsibilty.

 

Namah Shivaya,

Prasanth

 

 

 

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