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PRANAHUTI AIDED MEDITATION AND ANTYAKALASMARANA
Him. This is the logic of many Hindus trying to remember God at the last moment and also the rather irrational rider that this may be done by 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
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