Q: My parents went through physical suffering before death, but after death their bodies looked beautiful, what could be the significance of that?
Alokda: Suffering during the final days of departure acts sometimes as a catharsis of much that was held back during the lifetime. It is a very good way to exhaust the burden of certain karmas, a kind of Grace that releases many karmic knots that prevent the soul’s advance. Some souls even choose it deliberately to take a leap in the inner progress. The awakened soul takes it as a purifying ordeal and it is this soul state, this inner beatitude that gets reflected in the body as long as the cellular life continues to linger after the physical departure.
