Chapter 8 verse 5
“Those who relinquish the body while remembering Me at the moment of death will come to Me. There is certainly no doubt about this.”
I grew up hearing that it is great to leave one’s body at time of death having God’s name in our lips, heart and minds. I started practicing avoiding filler words in my native tongue-tamil and started replacing them with God’s names. However over time, I have realized that it is very difficult to remember God’s name in a sudden crisis, when we are in tremendous pain or immediate suffering NOT long term suffering. Death usually comes suddenly without announcement and is associated with a lot of pain, maybe memory loss etc., Shouldn’t we all pray every moment of every day to practice to utter God’s name so we can leave thinking, chanting and being in His presence at the time of departure from this world. There is a lovely anup jalota (bhajan singer of North India) which goes like “Itna to karna swami, jab praan than se nikle- Just do this much when the life goes out of my body..”. Knowledge is available all around us-when will we wake up to take in the knowledge and live it?
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