COMA IS NOT GOOD. THAT IS THE SIGN OF SINFUL LIFE.
HE MUST BE CONSCIOUS. THAT IS GOOD
SB 4.28.12 P Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
There are many parts of the body–the senses, the limbs, the skin, the muscles, blood, marrow, etc.–and all these are considered here figuratively as sons, grandsons, citizens and dependents. WHEN THE BODY IS ATTACKED BY THE VISNU-JVARA, THE FIERY CONDITION BECOMES SO ACUTE THAT SOMETIMES ONE REMAINS IN A COMA. THIS MEANS THAT THE BODY IS IN SUCH SEVERE PAIN THAT ONE BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS AND CANNOT FEEL THE MISERIES TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE BODY. INDEED, THE LIVING ENTITY BECOMES SO HELPLESS AT THE TIME OF DEATH THAT, ALTHOUGH UNWILLING, HE IS FORCED TO GIVE UP THE BODY AND ENTER ANOTHER.
SB 4.29.71 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
Foolish people deny the existence of the soul, but it is a fact that when we sleep we forget the identity of the material body and when we awake we forget the identity of the subtle body. In other words, while sleeping we forget the activities of the gross body, and when active in the gross body we forget the activities of sleeping. Actually both states–sleeping and waking–are creations of the illusory energy. The living entity actually has no connection with either the activities of sleep or the activities of the so-called wakened state. When a person is in deep sleep or when he has fainted, he forgets his gross body. Similarly, under chloroform or some other anesthetic, the living entity forgets his gross body and does not feel pain or pleasure during a surgical operation. Similarly, when a man is suddenly shocked by some great loss, he forgets his identification with the gross body. AT THE TIME OF DEATH, WHEN THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY RISES TO 107 DEGREES, THE LIVING ENTITY FALLS INTO A COMA AND IS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY HIS GROSS BODY. IN SUCH CASES, THE LIFE AIR THAT MOVES WITHIN THE BODY IS CHOKED UP, AND THE LIVING ENTITY FORGETS HIS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE GROSS BODY.
SB 4.29.76-77 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
A LIVING ENTITY TOO MUCH ABSORBED IN MATERIAL ACTIVITY BECOMES VERY MUCH ATTRACTED TO THE MATERIAL BODY. EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH, HE THINKS OF HIS PRESENT BODY AND THE RELATIVES CONNECTED TO IT. THUS HE REMAINS FULLY ABSORBED IN THE BODILY CONCEPTION OF LIFE, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH HE ABHORS LEAVING HIS PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IT IS FOUND THAT A PERSON ON THE VERGE OF DEATH REMAINS IN A COMA FOR MANY DAYS BEFORE GIVING UP THE BODY. This is common among so-called leaders and politicians who think that without their presence the entire country and all society will be in chaos. This is called maya. Political leaders do not like to leave their political posts, and they either have to be shot by an enemy or obliged to leave by the arrival of death. By superior arrangement a living entity is offered another body, but because of his attraction to the present body, he does not like to transfer himself to another body. Thus he is forced to accept another body by the laws of nature.
Material nature is very strong, and the material modes force one to accept another body. This force is visible when the living entity transmigrates from a superior body to an inferior one. ONE WHO ACTS LIKE A DOG OR HOG IN THE PRESENT BODY WILL CERTAINLY BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BODY OF A DOG OR HOG IN THE NEXT LIFE. A PERSON MAY BE ENJOYING THE BODY OF A PRIME MINISTER OR A PRESIDENT, BUT WHEN HE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BODY OF A DOG OR HOG, HE CHOOSES NOT TO LEAVE THE PRESENT BODY. THEREFORE HE LIES IN A COMA MANY DAYS BEFORE DEATH. This has been experienced by many politicians at the time of death. The conclusion is that the next body is already determined by superior control. The living entity immediately gives up the present body and enters another. Sometimes in the present body the living entity feels that many of his desires and imaginations are not fulfilled. Those who are overly attracted to their life situation are forced to remain in a ghostly body and are not allowed to accept another gross body. Even in the body of a ghost, they create disturbances for neighbors and relatives. The mind is the prime cause of such a situation. According to one’s mind, different types of bodies are generated, and one is forced to accept them.
TLK Vs 41 Taking Shelter of Krsna, the Supreme Controller
Presently we are so dull and foolish that we do not know what is bhayam and tivram. The word tivram means “very terrible,” and bhayam means “very fearsome.” We are entangled by a very terrible fear, but we have become so dull due to the spell of maya that we do not care. AT THE TIME OF DEATH THERE ARE MANY TROUBLES, AND WE BECOME VERY FEARFUL. SOMETIMES, WHEN A PERSON IS DYING, HE FALLS INTO A COMA AND LIES UNCONSCIOUS. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND OF FEARFUL TEST THIS PERSON IS UNDERGOING. HE MAY BE DREAMING SO MANY THINGS, OR HE MAY BE CRYING. HE CANNOT EXPRESS WHAT IS GOING ON. THOSE WHO ARE VERY SINFUL ESPECIALLY DIE IN THAT WAY. After death, one has to enter into the womb of another mother. That is also a very fearful stage. One becomes packed in a bag, and this bag is filled with stool and urine, and one has to remain packed in this airtight bag for nine months.
740621BG.GER Lectures
So nobody wants to leave this body, but the distress is so strong that one is forced to leave this body. That is called death. In the Bhagavad-gita you will find that mrtyuh sarva-haras ca aham. Krsna says that “I am death.” And what is the meaning of death? Death means “I take everything from him. Finished. I take his body, I take his association, I take his country, I take his society, I take his bank balance, and everything finished.” Sarva-harah. Sarva means everything. Everyone is trying to accumulated big bank balance and big house, big family, big motorcar… But with the death, everything is finished. So that is great distress. SOMETIMES ONE CRIES. YOU WILL FIND AT THE TIME OF DEATH, IN COMA, HIS EYE DROPS ARE COMING OUT. HE IS THINKING, “I MADE SO MANY THINGS SO NICELY TO LIVE COMFORTABLY, AND NOW I AM LOSING EVERYTHING.” GREAT DISTRESS.
751031BG.NAI Lectures
Indian man (2): But what if they die in coma? What if they die in deep unconsciousness?
Prabhupada: That is not very good. COMA IS NOT GOOD. THAT IS THE SIGN OF SINFUL LIFE. HE MUST BE CONSCIOUS. THAT IS GOOD.
760915SB.VRN Lectures
So this is the movement how to make an adhira dhira. Everyone is adhira. Who is not afraid of death? Who is not afraid of…? Of course, they are too much agnostic, they forget. But there is suffering. We can see how one suffering at the time of death. There are some men dying… NOWADAYS IT HAS BECOME A VERY COMMON… COMA. ONE IS LYING IN THE BED FOR WEEKS, TWO WEEKS, CRYING. THE LIFE IS NOT GOING. THOSE WHO ARE VERY, VERY SINFUL. SO THERE IS GREAT PAIN AT THE TIME OF DEATH.
741209SB.BOM Lectures
So bhayam tivram. We have become so much dull or foolish that we do not know what is bhayam tivram. Tivram means very fierce, and bhayam, fierce fearfulness, very strong. And we are entangled in this very strong fearfulness, but we have become so dull by the spell of maya that we don’t care for it. Just imagine. At the time of death there are so many troubles, very fierceful. SOMETIMES A PERSON IS DYING, HE IS ATTACKED WITH COMA, AND HE IS LYING UNCONSCIOUS. BIG, BIG POLITICIANS, “MR. SUCH AND SUCH,” PRIME MINISTER, AND THIS AND THAT, BUT HE IS LYING UNCONSCIOUS IN COMA FOR SEVEN DAYS. AND WE DO NOT KNOW, BUT HE IS GOING VERY FIERCEFUL TEST. HE IS DREAMING SO MANY THINGS THAT SOMETIMES HE IS CRYING. HE CANNOT EXPRESS. ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE VERY SINFUL, THEY DIE IN THAT WAY. So this is not finished. Then, after death, you have to enter in the womb of the mother. That is another fierceful stage. You become packed up in a bag, and the bag is filled up or surrounded by stool, urine, worms. And you have to remain there, airtight packed, for ten months.
761023SB.VRN Lectures
Rebirth, that is very painful. But because we are mudhas, we have forgotten what is the painful condition is rebirth. We do not remember it. We do not remember. We had to pass through. We can simply imagine how it is painful to remain in the womb of the mother, packed up in an airtight bag and hands and legs you cannot move even. So this is the tribulations of taking birth. And similarly the tribulations of death. SOMETIMES ONE REMAINS IN COMA FOR MONTHS AND HE SUFFERS SO MUCH. SOMETIMES HE CRIES. ACTUALLY TEARS COME OUT. WE CANNOT SEE, BUT WITHIN THE BODY OF THE DYING MAN IS SO MUCH PAINFUL. This is called janma-mrtyu. And old man’s, there are difficulties.
710218LE.GOR Lectures
And similarly, miserable condition of death. WHEN ONE IS LYING IN COMA, SO MANY SUFFERINGS IS GOING ON, SO MANY DREAMING, THE YAMADUTA IS COMING. SOMETIMES THE MAN ON THE DEATHBED CRIES, HE’S SO MUCH SUFFERING. But there is no remedy. Everyone is helpless. So that is the miserable condition of death
SCHOP.HAY Arthur Schopenhauer Philosophy
Prabhupada: In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated, yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajanty ante: we get next life according to the desire at the point of death. SO GENERALLY, WHEN DEATH TAKES PLACE, ONE SOMETIMES REMAINS IN COMA, ALL THE BODILY FUNCTIONS BECOMES DEFUNCT, HE DREAMS IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND SO ON, SO ON. SO HE CANNOT DREAM OR THINK INDEPENDENTLY.
740407mw.bom Conversations
Prabhupada: This example is given. Suppose we are walking. This step, when I assure that “This is all right, it is not, it will not go down,” then I take up this. Then again this. This example is given. Similarly, change of body like that. As soon as it is settled up what kind of body he is going to accept or which is being offered to him, daiva-netrena, by higher authority, then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of the body which he is destined to get. This is the process of death.
Yadubara: Is that immediate, Srila Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: Immediate. Just like immediate I am walking. When it is fixed up, then I take up. Then when it is fixed up, then I take up, like this. Immediately.
Yasomatinandana: What about hell? How does the jiva soul go to hell?
Prabhupada: Yes. They go. Those who are going to HELL, THAT IS FIXED UP VERY QUICKLY. IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH TIME. HELL MEANS HE IS GETTING THE NEXT BODY, HELLISH BODY. THAT’S ALL. SUPPOSE HE IS GOING TO GET THE HELLISH BODY TO BECOME THE WORM OF STOOL, SO IN THAT WAY HE ENTERS THE WORM, MOTHER WORM, TO GET THE BODY AND ENJOY THE HELL. THAT’S ALL.
Satsvarupa: Don’t they sometimes have to go to Yamaraja first for practice?
Prabhupada: Yes. That is daiva-netrena. THESE THINGS ARE FINISHED VERY QUICKLY. AND IF IT TAKES LITTLE TIME, THEN THIS MAN WHO IS DYING, HE REMAINS IN COMA AND DOES NOT DIE. BECAUSE THE JUDGEMENT IS GOING ON, THE DECISION WAITING, COMA. YOU HAVE SEEN SOMETIMES A MAN IS IN COMA FOR SEVEN DAYS, EIGHT DAYS? YES. THAT MEANS HIS JUDGEMENT IS GOING ON, THAT… SUCH KIND OF DEATH MEANS VERY SINFUL DEATH. NOT YET SETTLED UP, VERY COMPLICATED CASE. THEREFORE IT TAKES TIME.
Yadubara: What about persons who die in their sleep? Is that a sinful death?
Prabhupada: Yes. Dream or awakened, everything is dream, gross dream and subtle dream. That’s all. This is also dream. What do you mean by dream? Dream means existent for a little period. That’s all. So night dream is for two hours and this dream is for twenty-four hours.
Yasomatinandana: So in other words when it says that one goes to hell, any lower species is also like hell. If one is going to assume a dog’s body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog’s body?
Prabhupada: THERE IS STATEMENT LIKE THAT, THAT ONE IS PUT INTO THE HELLISH CONDITION FOR PRACTICING LITTLE, AND THEN HE IS PUT INTO THE WOMB OF SUCH MOTHER.
Yasomatinandana: Is that a long duration of practice or just…, very short?
Prabhupada: No, very short. SHORT MEAN THEIR SHORT. IT MAY TAKE LITTLE MORE TIME.
Giriraja: Now they have machines that when the person is in coma, the machines artificially keep the heart beating and the other processes…
Prabhupada: Then heart beating will go on, either you apply machine or no machine. Heart beating. But when the heart stops, no machine can revive it. So what is the use of machine? But by nature’s way when the heart beating will stop, no machine can help. That is not possible.
750302r2.atl Conversations
Prabhupada: WE CAN SEE WHEN A MAN IS IN COMA, HE CRIES, HE SUFFERS. BEFORE DEATH WHEN A MAN IS IN COMA SOMETIMES TEARS COME. Now why he says there is nothing? Imperfect knowledge, that’s all. Misguiding people.
760726rc.lon Conversations
George Harrison: When my mother died I had to send my sister and father out of the room, because they were getting emotional, and I just chanted Hare Krsna.
Prabhupada: She chanted.
George Harrison: I did.
Prabhupada: Oh, very nice, so she could hear?
George Harrison: I don’t know, I don’t know, she was in like a coma or something. It was the only thing I could think of.
Prabhupada: When it happened?
George Harrison: In 1970. It was the only thing I could think of that may be of value, you know.
Prabhupada: Anyway, if she has heard Hare Krsna, she’ll get the benefit. Either she chants or somebody chanting, if she hears, sravanam kirtanam, both the same thing. Little chance. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat. So let us practice in such a way that at the time of death we may remember. That is success. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya. So you are reading Krsna repeatedly? Krsna book you are reading repeatedly?
SB 4.29.76-77 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
A living entity too much absorbed in material activity becomes very much attracted to the material body. EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH, HE THINKS OF HIS PRESENT BODY AND THE RELATIVES CONNECTED TO IT. THUS HE REMAINS FULLY ABSORBED IN THE BODILY CONCEPTION OF LIFE, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH HE ABHORS LEAVING HIS PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IT IS FOUND THAT A PERSON ON THE VERGE OF DEATH REMAINS IN A COMA FOR MANY DAYS BEFORE GIVING UP THE BODY. This is common among so-called leaders and politicians who think that without their presence the entire country and all society will be in chaos. This is called maya. Political leaders do not like to leave their political posts, and they either have to be shot by an enemy or obliged to leave by the arrival of death. By superior arrangement a living entity is offered another body, but because of his attraction to the present body, he does not like to transfer himself to another body. Thus he is forced to accept another body by the laws of nature.
prakrteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma
kartaham iti manyate
“The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature.” (Bg. 3.27)
Material nature is very strong, and the material modes force one to accept another body. This force is visible when the living entity transmigrates from a superior body to an inferior one. One who acts like a dog or hog in the present body will certainly be forced to accept the body of a dog or hog in the next life. A PERSON MAY BE ENJOYING THE BODY OF A PRIME MINISTER OR A PRESIDENT, BUT WHEN HE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BODY OF A DOG OR HOG, HE CHOOSES NOT TO LEAVE THE PRESENT BODY. THEREFORE HE LIES IN A COMA MANY DAYS BEFORE DEATH. This has been experienced by many politicians at the time of death. The conclusion is that the next body is already determined by superior control. The living entity immediately gives up the present body and enters another. Sometimes in the present body the living entity feels that many of his desires and imaginations are not fulfilled. Those who are overly attracted to their life situation are forced to remain in a ghostly body and are not allowed to accept another gross body. Even in the body of a ghost, they create disturbances for neighbors and relatives. The mind is the prime cause of such a situation. According to one’s mind, different types of bodies are generated, and one is forced to accept them. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (8.6):
yam yam vapi smaran bhavam
tyajaty ante kalevaram
tam tam evaiti kaunteya
sada tad-bhava-bhavitah
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” Within one’s body and mind, one can think as either a dog or a god, and the next life is offered to him accordingly. This is explained in Bhagavad-gita (13.22):
purusah prakrti-stho hi
bhunkte prakrtijan gunan
karanam guna-sango ‘sya
sad-asad-yoni-janmasu
“The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species.” The living entity may transmigrate to either a superior or inferior body according to his association with the modes of material nature. If he associates with the mode of ignorance, he gets the body of an animal or an inferior man, but if he associates with the mode of goodness or passion, he gets a body accordingly. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (14.18):
urdhvam gacchanti sattva-stha
madhye tisthanti rajasah
jaghanya-guna-vrtti-stha
adho gacchanti tamasah
“Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.”
The root cause of one’s association is the mind. This great Krsna consciousness movement is the greatest boon to human society because it is teaching everyone to think always of Krsna by executing devotional service. In this way, at the end of life, one may be transferred to the association of Krsna. This is technically called nitya-lila-pravista, entering into the planet Goloka Vrndavana. Bhagavad-gita (18.55) explains:
bhaktya mam abhijanati
yavan yas casmi tattvatah
tato mam tattvato jnatva
visate tad-anantaram
“One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God.” After the mind is completely absorbed in Krsna consciousness, one can enter the planet known as Goloka Vrndavana. To enter the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one has to understand Krsna. The process of understanding Krsna is devotional service.
After understanding Krsna as He is, one can become eligible to enter Krsnaloka and associate with Him. The mind is the cause of such an exalted position. The mind can also get one a body like those of dogs and hogs. To absorb the mind always in Krsna consciousness is therefore the greatest perfection of human life.
pamho agtACBSP, SRILA PRABHUPADA arrival in the usa ki jai,thank you for posting this nice article by reminding everyone about the nasty destination of all these yantrarudhani mayaya unwanting bodies machines. In this case is better alone with SRILA PRABHUPADA than in bad company i mean is not easy at all to look after the spiritual body through the present samaj society, a lot of people died in coma especially in this darkest age even sannyasis and devotees die in coma, we should remember all these informations through this accurate article to avoid all the suffering stored for all the people who already accepted a material Body.
Therefore the real sadhu sanga is very important, in this way one can’t forget all the troubles stored for all the troublesome journey of all the condizioned living entities of mrityu-loka, it’s ok i must accepted all this suffering because i haven’t got enough sukrti therefore i have to pass through is not this and many lives already gone like that but the machine is under the three gunas still until one get more sukrti by reading the SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA as much as one can chanting by making the spiritual body more visible because our business is with SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA is not with temporary fake images destined to be finish as this article above already mentioned.
Loulyam kalatvam now is the time to close all these polluted cycle of birth and death with the mercy of the most magnanimuos avatara SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU is possible to do that in this terrible age by practicing kirtaniya sada hari name gane sada ruci, through spiritual greediness it’s a question to come alive again because we are all dead when the time is over and we are young just once in this life, but they don’t not care by spoiling the beauty of youthhood for flickring pleasure. It is taking a fraction of a second to get all the sarva siddhi hoy by focus all our energies in the sublime vani seva of HDG ACBSP then that famous lava matra will come akama sarva kamo va moksa kama, it doesn’t matter if we are sakama or niskama but one should never forget the way out.
Grhe thako vane thako sada hari bole dako sukhe duhkhe bhulo na ko vadane harinam kore re whether you are a householder or a sannyasi constantily chant hari hari, do not forget this chanting,whether you are in a happy condition or in a distressful one. Just fill your lips with the harinam, (sri nama vaisnava songs ) then one will become niskama free from desire DHRUVA MAHARAJ also start the sadhana bhakti through the sakama stage then became niskama, that means the body machine is not under the three gunas anymore all the wise sage people got the perfection by overcoming the three gunas of material nature.
Of course we are still far from that fourth dimension beyond the three gunas of material nature but hopeness is the last thing to die and that super auspicious lava matra in pure bhakti yoga is already stored for all the sincere chanters of the holy Name. We just need to wait with patience determination and enthusiasm without getting involve with the guru hoaxers otherwise things get slow and worse. One must get fully atttracted by the divine vani seva of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA to forget the troublesome journey of all these bodies borned from the refusal of serving SRI KRSNA BHAGAVAT therefore destined to become dust again then why should i give so much importance to a bag of dust better to practice bhaktya mam abhijanati in this way a step a day takes maha maya away, agtSP ys haribol