Recently I had gone to attend a prayer
meeting to one of my relative’s house whose mother had died all of a
sudden.When I reached, Punditji had already started the havan.,chanting hymns
in a whispering voice.I don,t think anybody could grasp anything what Panditji was chanting other than’ Swaha’Those who are
sitting around the Havankund also started saying’ Swaha’ loudly and rest of the
mantra swallowing happily.I also sat in one corner and started whispering
‘Swaha’.This prayer was performed for
giving Moksha to the departed soul.I
noticed Panditji bringing out the sanskrit words with great difficulty as if he
is trying to remember whatever he studied long back and coughing out ,closing
his eyes as if to hide out his embarrasment.This made me to become little more
attentive.Suddenly he started his’ bhashan’.He says’when someone dies he will
go to yamaloka,there he/she has to pass under a tree.If his deeds were not good
when he was alive he won,t be able to pass under that tree.If at all he pass
-es then he has to cross a river of blood which he won,t be able to swim
because before he tries to swim itself
he will be in the webs of Yama,s servants . So the departed soul will
never get shanti.We have to perform one
more Pooja’…….’I got very ferocious..Being a Pandit what rubbish he is
talking.! How he is misleading the crowd.
How any one on
the earth knows what happens to the departed soul.?Has anybody seen how this so
called heaven and hell looks like.?If this is the case then all these fraud
panditjis will never see the door of heaven.They are misguiding the peopleThey
do not have the sradha or gyan to grasp the vast knowledge in our sacred books
which is written by Great yogis.These people are not wise,They predict
themselves that they are scholars.They are Pundits without any wisdomThey are
not jnanis
Whatever little knowledge I have acquired
from Gita I would like to quote here.
Man is of three bodies:the physical
,subtle and casual.Only the physical body is visible to the naked eye.We can
see how the bodies of people are changing.Just as we do not take bath in the
same water again and again we do not have the same bodies always.From birth
till death human body undergo several changes.Along with this, the subtle
body-mind- also undergo changes.Mind too is ever on the move.The casual body
leaves the physical and subtle body (mind) after their death and assumes
another pair.It too is ever on the move from one body to the other, at its death and the consequent
birth.It is but a chain of birth death and rebirth. As the old clothes are
dropped to wear the new ones,the old or worn out bodies are dropped to assume
the new ones
‘On account of the intensity of attraction felt for
the new body for whatever reason,the memory of the old one is completely
effaced.Death means this complete forgetfulness of the old body and its
affairs by the Jiva.The acceptance of a
new body by the Jiva and his complete
identification with it is called
birth’-(Srimad Bhagavata)