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natural attributes similar to his own.
At the Time of Death
Questioner: Please explain to us what happens at the
time of death. Some one’s eyes stay open and some urinate or
defecate.
Dadashri: Nothing of this sort happens to a Gnani
Purush. The Gnani’s Self does not leave through any sense
organs. It leaves differently. For the worldly people who have to
wander from one life to another, the Self departs through the
sense organs. For some it leaves through the eyes, for some
through the mouth; it leaves via any one of the orifices. It is good
if it leaves through an auspicious hole and bad if it leaves through
an orifice people consider as inauspicious because that takes it
into a lower life form. In the past, many saints used to have a
coconut cracked on their heads. If they became sick, they
would tell their disciples to crack a coconut on their head. That
will lead to even lower life form, if the Self leaves from there in
this manner. The head is the tenth location. If the Self were to
leave naturally from there, then its light would be completely
different. Its light would illuminate the entire universe.
Questioner: Can those who do not have Self-realization
(agnanis) also see that light?
Dadashri: No, they cannot see it. Those who are
Gnanis can see all that. Agnanis can only see, ‘this is my wife,
this is my mother-in-law, this is my uncle, these are jalebi and
these are ladoos (sweet dishes)’; that is all they can see.
Questioner: There is no physical suffering in a blissful
death where one is in the awareness of the Self (samadhi
maran), is there?
Dadashri: Blissful death can occur even in the presence
of physical suffering. It can occur even in the presence of