How can we help someone who is in coma?
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If we know somebody is in a comatose state, then what can we do for them, basically? Yeah, that is a stage of almost being in like no man’s land. The soul is not, in this body, in a normal way, the soul is not leaving that body also. So broadly speaking, we can certainly try, there is a reasonable hope for medical recovery.
And if we give them as many spiritual vibrations as possible, there is, I will talk later about conscious choice and unconscious reception. Now, even if the spiritual vibrations are received unconsciously, without somebody choosing, still there will be benefits. The benefit is much more when it is consciously chosen.
But if we, it is not going to be seen as sectarian, and if soothing music, that can give them some solace, at that level also, and raise their energy to God. So nowadays, these cases often become a lot more because we have a lot of life maintenance systems, that we can have artificial support system for maintaining life, even if normally in that state, the life would not be maintained. So when Prabhupada was asked about this, Prabhupada said that, if there is not much chance of the person surviving, then there is no need to hold on to them.
Let that soul go, because the soul is in limbo right now, not being able to do anything. But we do know miracles sometimes happen, and people’s emotions are deeply invested. So any specific counseling, we have to do very carefully.
But definitely, exposure to spiritual sound vibrations at that time, apart from our offering prayers for them, also giving them that option to hear. It’s basically, it’s we are here, they are there, and Krishna is here. So when we pray to them, it is like we are approaching Krishna and asking Krishna to connect with us, Krishna to bless us.
That is good, definitely. But along that, if they somehow connect with Krishna, that is, if we bring Krishna into their consciousness, that’s also very good. Now, when Krishna comes into their conscious awareness, how much do they become conscious of him? How much they are even capable of becoming conscious of him? We don’t know that.
And because Krishna is not like any other physical object. The physical objects, if my eyes are damaged, if there is a beautiful picture comes before me, I can’t see it. Now, we can put a picture of Krishna also.
Even if my eyes are damaged, I can’t physically see Krishna. Krishna is not just a physical object. That’s a physical manifestation of Krishna as a transcendental object.
So that presence of Krishna on that visual pathway, even if there is no visual perception, is still beneficial. So as much as possible, we try to expose them to spiritual sound vibrations or spiritual stimuli in general. And we are making some progress.
Oh, that’s wonderful. Thank you. Yeah, we are making progress and that’s definitely our players and whatever we can do to help them.
There have been many cases of people who have completely recovered also. It’s not easy, but it’s happening.