Question: I attended your Talks on “Life After Death”. Would
you kindly explain what should a spouse do when the life-partner passes away
and there are no children in the family? (Anusuya, R.A.Puram, Chennai)
Sage TGN: Son and daughter are the persons best equipped to invoke and
absorb the life-energy of deceased parents since they are from the same
stock. It is against this background
that Adi Sankarar by way of
answer to the specific question, “What is a man’s next birth?” said, “His son,
undoubtedly.”
Where a couple have no issue and one of them passes
away, the surviving spouse would have to help out as the associate with the
closest life-link established through years of having lived together. The method is to concentrate the thought, “I
will absorb the disembodied soul of my life-mate and fulfil the unfulfilled
desires and aspirations that are deposited as imprints therein. This way is called self-invocation. The most suitable time to do this is while
the dead body is still lying in state, awaiting interment or cremation, for the
reason that the disembodied soul would be in a moisturised condition
facilitating drawal.
The work does not stop here.
Remember what I have explained on previous occasions about the nature of
the imprints to arise as thoughts while you are awake and as dreams during
sleep. After the self-invocation you
would find some new thoughts occurring in you which
you would be able to identify and classify as not your own. These new thoughts could be good or
otherwise; and so you have to evaluate them before implementation. You might feel like giving a donation to an
orphanage in the locality. Do so straightaway as it is
a good thought which the departed did not have time to carry out.
Another type of thought could also surface, to be harsh or
unkind to a relative who might have been intensely disliked by your
partner. Do not implement this thought
as it is harmful, but counter it with the fresh thought of yours
determinedly. The original wrong thought
induced in you would be blunted in due course and become extinct. In effect it has been attended to and
disposed of.
Childless couple would do well to come to the spiritual path and
become stabilised in virtue, at least after crossing their productive
years. That is the most effective means
to ensure that adverse imprints are not added.
The burden on the disembodied soul would be much less thereby.
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