Question:
BELOVED MASTER, FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS I HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF MY SISTER WHILE SHE WAS DYING OF CANCER IN HOSPITAL. I WAS ABLE TO GIVE HER LOVE AND PHYSICAL CARE, AND ALTHOUGH, WHILE SHE WAS IN THE LAST DAYS OF COMA I WAS CONSTANTLY PLAYING YOUR DISCOURSES TO HER, I FELT I FAILED TO INTRODUCE HER TO MEDITATION; SHE REFUSED TO FACE DEATH. BELOVED MASTER, IT'S A PUZZLE TO ME THAT AFTER ALL THE TORTURE AND SUFFERING SHE MUST HAVE FELT, AT THE LAST MOMENT A BIG SMILE STARTED TO GROW MORE AND MORE ON HER FACE. BELOVED MASTER, COULD YOU COMMENT ON HER SMILE AND ON MY TRYING TO INTRODUCE HER TO MEDITATION?
Osho:
Meera, the question
you have asked raises a very fundamental thing, and that is: if by chance --
and I will explain to you what I mean by chance -- if by chance somebody dies
in great suffering like cancer, the suffering of the cancer does not allow the
person to fall into unconsciousness.
So just before death when the body separates from the soul, a tremendous
experience happens which happens only to the mystics, to the meditators. To
them it does not happen by accident, they have been preparing for it ....
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