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Death
Dadashri: No, such last minute rituals achieve nothing. Is
it possible for one to make up for all the losses one incurs during
the course of the entire year by simply making a profit at the end
of the year?
Questioner: No, it will not work.
Dadashri: Why not?
Questioner: The balance sheet will reflect all the
transactions for the entire year.
Dadashri: In the same token, it is the end sum of all the
activities of one’s entire life that is brought forward. In performing
these rituals, people are deceiving the dying and all around him.
They are making fools out of them by giving false promises.
Questioner: Dada, when a person is on his deathbed and
at the end of his life, he is conscious and if at that time someone
recites the Gita or any other religious scriptures in his ears ……
Dadashri: It should be done only at the request of the
dying. One can read to him only if he wishes to listen.
Euthanasia: Mercy Killing
Questioner: When a person is suffering from a chronic
illness for which there is no cure, it does not seem right to prolong
their suffering. What is wrong with helping them end their suffering?
In this respect it is hard to believe that if we help him by mercy
killing, that his suffering will continue in the next life.
Dadashri: No one has a right to do that, whatsoever. We
have a right to treat them and take care of them, but not to kill
them.
Questioner: Where is the benefit for us in prolonging