23 May 2010 —
Question
Q164: Death experience?
Question 164:
“What was your closest experience with death?“
Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
Question 164:
“What was your closest experience with death?“
Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
I lost my best friend, 2 years ago, he was young (37 yrs old),,, no pain, no suffering,,, he just left in a second to a nicer and better journey. He was very spiritual, so i guess he was prepared for that, and i am sure his soul is now very happy wherever in the universe. First i was very depressed, then when i understood why he had to leave i felt much better. Now with a nice smile i send him my purest love.
4 years back I got chickenpox and was very sick. For 5 days I was unable to see anything, as fever was very high. For 3 days I felt like floating. I was taking only coconut water. I also had pneumonia. I could do nothing but pray to God.
I was on a carnival ride when a woman who was afraid to get on stalled the ride with her indecision. People on the ground saw that my carriage was broken and screamed for the operator not to start the ride. We were so far up the operator could not hear them. Someone had to come up and stop him. I was told had the operator started the ride I would have been thrown from the ride and killed instantly. I got right back on the ride in a different carriage. I have a few similar experiences. I know I was saved (more than once)to be Amma’s instrument.
I faced death two times on the same day, few years back. My train got derailed after hitting a big stone on the track. There was deep valley on either side of the track. But luckily, the train didn’t fall out of the track and was stopped fast. Some travelers went down to a small river to take bath and I joined them. In the river, I stepped on a slippery rock and started going down in the water. Luckily, one person got hold of my hand and pulled me up!
This incident happened when I was in school many years back before meeting Amma. I was in swimming pool of an amusement ppark in mumbai. I was seated on the floating tube when it overturned and I fell in the water. I don’t know swimming so I was drowning. Luckily my hand was up, and someone pulled me and I was safe out of the pool. I had drunk a lot of water but I was safe.
I have witnessed the death of both of my parents at their bedsides. They were both very sick at those times and I felt that they were ready to go home and end their suffering. It was a most painful privilege to help ease their dying days through the small amount of care I was able to provide. I thank God I was able to be there so they did not have to die alone. I myself have come close to death as well. I can only say that the spiritual ideal of smiling at death is easier said than done. Jai Ma…
Never, as I live AMMA, the bestower of Immortality. The soul in the body has to leave once its organs are worn out. Await a new body, as if one were to enter a new home, to be reborn.
The closest death experience was in November 2002, My MIL, FIL, and me were discussing something all of a sudden my my FIL started leaning towards wall while speaking with half words in his mouth which were yet to come out but they couldn’t he was no more. according to astrology my end was to be on 3rd November 2008 but with AMMA’s blessing I was saved from the clutches of deather, I am still there.
i was riding in a car which was almost in an accident. my reaction was blurting out “jesus christ!” i told someone later that if i had died maybe i would have merged with christ. however, that same month the same thing happened and my reaction was to say “holy s***!” needless to say i was humbled!
On recollection in the past couple of years, I had a couple of near death experiences. Since I was near Amma I came out of the situation without much of a problem such as job loss, some minor quarrels in family etc. But looking back those were much better than losing my life, I used to complain when I lost my job that AMMA did not save me. But she had saved my life instead!
Death of ‘Me’? or my body? If it is me, i never experienced and never going to experience it. Because no death for me. This ‘me’ is immortal.
But i experienced 3/4 times close to death experiences. When I was 7 years old, once during the Temple festival of 7 days, my older brother and his friends started jumping in a pool from a 20 feet high platform. I imitated them but didn’t know how to swim! Before I was rescued, coming up and down from the water to breathe, i could go close to Death but some presence didn’t allow me to go with my friend Death.
when i was 18, someone gave me the Tibetan Deathbook, which describes how to die, with full awareness, remembering your Self, in order to get a better life. This triggered in me the desire to go to the Himalaya to find a master and get enlightened…
Now i know, that in a sense, we ‘die’ every second, and the best way to live is with full awareness, aware of the Self, every second of our life. …. Of course, this is a state of awareness one has, or one has not; it’s no use to start mood-making about it.. but i feel grateful for the progress i have made, and for the help and support given…
This was during my 3rd year of undergrad when I’d fallen ill. No sense of what is going around, what I was doing. One night I just woke up and began walking towards the door, when I stumbled and fell, crippled to the doorway and held railing. Next thing I remember I was half way on the railing on the 3rd floor. Somehow managed to get down and dragged myself towards the loo, the next thing I know my head banged on the toilet seat & was unconscious for long until a chetta came and picked me up. It was indeed scary!
I once almost died and I remember it being quite a sensusous experience in that I could feel, deep inside, my soul beginning to leave my body. Whenever that happened, the doors of my room would be frantically pushed open and nurses would arrive, pushing some kind of cart and they would also do something to my IV. I remember not worrying if I would live or die. With Amma’s grace, I lived. But I remember the utter peace of it all and being okay with whatever happened.
Last year as I saw life slip out of my husband. I sat with him, telling him that the family and I will be fine as we had Amma with us, As he drew his last breath, the chants of Vishnu Sahastranamam came to an end on the CD player. It was a peaceful moment for me as I strongly felt Amma’s presence to take him across the oceans and ontoo her lap. Jai Ma!
it was more than 10 years ago, i was fearless and an inner voice told me that i was not because i was afraid to die so i sat padmasana like ( i didn t know anyhting about india at this time)and i started to let go everything until i was very cold, then i loose consciousness of the body, then i went into a spiritual dimension where an higher being told me that i could stop this life now but if i did i had to come back into another body and be a baby and start allover again or i could continue with my present body and finish it into this lifetime so i came back into my body and i was in an ambulance going to the hospital because when i did this i had friends around me wich didn t believe that i was going to die but they called the ambulance…it was my first meditation and years after a Swami told me that it was a samadhi.
When I was in the hospital, as a young mother, awaiting an emergency surgery. As I went under, I wasn’t sure I would wake up, as I was in such pain. My spiritual beliefs were not yet formed and I was so scared.
An accident on my bike, in which I believe Amma saved my life. Doctors said that I was miraculously saved…
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