Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00122)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "ana maria torra" <amt@m...> 
wrote:


> I just got a call that one of the clients from the volunteer 
agency I
> work for that the doctors have told him there is nothing more they 
can
> do for him. He is a handsome young man from Greece who is going to 
get
> married in 3 months. His name is George and he had cancer of the
> tongue that has spread. He is going home tomorrow night. He asked 
to
> see me before he leaves. He is quiet and young with great dignity 
and
> has been a private person during his 6 week stay with us at Miracle
> House. I don't know if he has any religion or specific beliefs. 
But he
> wanted to know if I could talk to hime about reincarnation.


Dear Ana:

It is very difficult to find what to say in such a situation. But 
perhaps someone close to George could let him read some of the 
verses of the Bhagavad Gita on the immortality of the soul, or the 
well-known passage from the "Idyll of the White Lotus":

"The soul of man is immortal and its future is the future of a thing 
whose growth and splendour have no limits."

Another idea is for those members of theos-talk who want to do so, 
to send him their best thoughts in this difficult moment. For as St 
Paul said, "we are members of each other".

With warm good wishes,


Pedro
(From Tangalle, east coast of Sri Lanka, on the way to Badulla)