Page 302 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj
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proxy. So the stupid and yet sentimental method of uttering the name of Narayana on a person who is dead or is in coma and about to depart from the body. The importance of remembering God at the time of death is mentioned even in the Upanishads. (Chandogya III.14.1 and Prasna III.10). Great saints discovered a practical problem in this. After all the body is prone to diseases and so the devout may not be able to utter or even remember God at the last moment. Is God that unkind and unmerciful that the devotion and surrender to the will of God that one has practiced all through life go waste because he is not able to remember God at the last moment? Saints of great stature like the King Kulasekhara prayed that his prayers when he is well may be taken into account as he does not know what happens at the last moment of his life. He prayed
They then thought a way out of this and that is the origin of the technique of Constant Remembrance. Constant remembrance done purely and solely for the purposes of the Divine alone qualify and not all and sundry prayers for relief from animal wants or elementary requirements of existence. Our existence is a
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