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Namah Notes on counselling

Which means it took twelve days for all his consciousness — it will last long, it may last for
elements to form again. You see, they burned years.” She is in bed, she can’t move much,
his body. (He was Christian, but family — his but … she lives. She too lives out of habit.
wife is alive and his brother too — found it
less costly to let us handle it than to bury him “In reality, the body should be able to last much
as a Christian. So they had him cremated.) longer than human beings think. They knock
We cremated him, but I demanded a certain it about: as soon as someone is unwell, they
interval of time, although in his case it was drug or knock his body about, they take away
really a gradual exhaustion and nothing that kind of calm vegetative serenity that can
much remained in his body; nonetheless, make it last a very long time, the way trees take
even then the consciousness is flung out of a very long time to die (2).”
the cells violently — it took twelve days to
form again. It wasn’t his soul (it had already An analysis of the Mother’s description
left) but the spirit of his body that came to brings several points which are necessary to
me, the body consciousness gathered in a understand the occult facets of departure and
well-dressed, neat Benjamin with his hair its concomitant relevance in the counselling
neatly brushed. He was quite trim when he of bereavement:
came to me, just as he would have been in
life; he always wanted to be well-groomed a. The psychic being (the soul-element
and impeccable to see me, that was his way. projected in evolution from the Unevolving
It took twelve days to gather together because Self) usually departs during death but in
I didn’t see to it (I can do it in a few hours several instances can depart much earlier,
but only if I see to it), but in his case, his soul leaving a body that becomes somewhat
having been at rest for a long time, it didn’t vegetative without the living presence.
matter much. So over twelve days it took Understanding this phenomenon helps to
form again and when he was ready he came prepare for bereavement in a better way
to reoccupy his room!... And there was no when it comes. It also helps to take a decision
furniture left, nothing! whether or not to de-link the life-support
system when the doctors have given up all
I found that very funny. hope in a comatose subject surviving with
ventilator support. This scribe remembers
“And he had been living for more than a two incidents. One was when he had visited
year, almost two years, I think, just out of a a lady he knew to have grown gracefully old
habit of living. with a sweet soul presence but was now in
a comatose state, supported artificially by
“There is also here the sister of the old portly medical gadgets. He could feel that the soul
doctor, she is (I think) five or six years older than essence was no more and the doctors were
I – she is getting on for ninety. The doctors (who pushing meaningless injections in a non-
don’t know the first thing in these matters) had responding body. He accordingly told the
declared she would die after a few days. “Wait relatives that her soul had departed and which
a little,” I told them, “this woman knows how should be accepted gracefully as the lady in
to enter a state of rest, she has a very peaceful question had herself lived a graceful life.

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