--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 5/28/05 6:35 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > In the movie "Miami Blues," a Hare Krishna airport solicitor is 
killed
> > there, and his compatriots sit around him whispering the names of
> > Krishna as he dies, as it is thought in Vedic culture that the 
last
> > thought that passes through one's mind is what determines the next
> > birth: if you're eaten by a shark, the thought of that shark so
> > dominates your awareness that you are born as a shark.
> 


> I've heard Maharishi say the same thing. (not with reference to a 
shark)

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The Vedic idea that the last thought determines birth is repeated in 
many stories -- but an important point is that usually how one lives 
determines how one thinks at the last moment -- Ajamila was a lucky 
exception:

http://tinyurl.com/aafwl






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