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The thought of God comes to a man at the time of death only
through the grace of the Lord. You have to keep the practice
of remembrance of näma smaraëa every day, every hour, rather
every second. When a strong habit is formed by unceasing
practice throughout the period of your life, then it will be easy to
remember God at the time of death. For this, you will have to lead
a well-regulated life after learning it from a saintly personality
and living with him (or her) for some years. If you can do this
while remaining in the world, it is all the more helpful for your
spiritual growth. You can be in the world and at the same time
be out of it.
Pursuing worldly activities throughout the day and sleeping
at night, you will find no time to think of God at all. Even if you
do some japa or prayer for 10 or 15 minutes daily while the rest of
the time you spend in worldly activities, you cannot make very
great spiritual advancement. Therefore, the remembrance of
God should be constant so that the thought of God may come
automatically at the time of death as well.

A devotee says to the Lord, “O Lord, let me enter the cool shade
of your lotus-like feet this very day when my senses are strong,
when my memory is good. When the intellect is perturbed and
perverted at the time of death, it may be carried away by the
threefold diseases of the body.” Even the most devout aspirant
may fail to think of the Lord at the time of death due to the
weakness of the physical body.
That is the reason why the Gita, the Bhagavata, Vishnu
Sahasranäma, and other holy scriptures are recited at the deathbed

Devotion to Thee alone fulfils the
SMT. GOWRAMMA & study of the scriptures: O Mother
SHRI K. SEETHARAMA RAO Divine! Bless us all with supreme
Teacher, Mysore devotion for Thee.
Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 9 September 2025