Near Death Experience of a Hindu

“Nainam chindanti shastrani

nainam dahati pavak
na chainam kledayanti apo
na soshayati marut”

Being born into a devout Hindu family whose great granduncle was Swami
Tapovan, I was drawn to the Bhagavad Gita like a magnet. The sixth chapter
(Dhyana Yoga), always fascinated me but the above shloka in the Gita about
the soul, had me intrigued. This shloka means, "Weapons cannot cut me, Fire
cannot burn me, Water cannot wet me, Air cannot touch me. I am the atman
(soul) which is immortal."

on January 12th 1980 I was flying kites on the terrace of my building at

Ahmedabad when due to a quirk of fate, I slipped and plunged feet down
from the 6th floor. I hit the floor with a thud and as a thirteen year old, I had
my first NDE (Near Death Experience). After three weeks in hospital due to
the grace of Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and with the blessings of
Goddess Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati, I had a miraculous escape and was
back to normal except for a few scars on my right foot. I escaped with a
fractured ankle and minor bruises.

However, the memory of my first near death experience has stayed with me
as if in slow motion and I had realised that the atman is immoral. The Near
Death Experience I underwent had a profound impact on my life and made
me extremely spiritual.

I developed a deep interest in numerology and began trying to understand

how numbers affected life and how the future could be predicted based on
numbers. I passed out of school and college and after graduating in
Biochemistry, in 1987, joined a multinational diagnostic company at Kochi
for two years, where I purchased my first two-wheeler. I got my first driving
license from Fort Kochi and drove for two years in Kerala without incident. I
joined another multinational company in a senior position at Bangalore in
1989 and continued to be in Bangalore till 1991. My scooter accompanied

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me without incident. Later I relocated to Ahmedabad as a Product Manager
at a pharmaceutical company in 1991 itself. In 1992 I quit my job and
relocated to Pune for my MBA which I completed in 1994. I drove my scooter
in Pune for two years without a scratch. After campus placements I joined a
Swedish multinational (Astra-IDL, presently Astra Zeneca) at Bangalore as a
Product Manager and relocated to Bangalore from Pune on 4th July 1994.
Numerologically, my birth year is 1966, so I had my first near death
experience at the age of 14. In 1994, I was 28. On 31st December of 1994, I
was returning home on new year's eve from a party on my scooter, when a
drunk truck driver careened into my scooter and I had my second near death
experience in my 28th year. This accident, caused organic damage to the
front temporal lobe of my brain and I slipped into a coma. The subsequent
surgical interventions and craniotomy meant total dependence on powerful
antiepileptic drugs for the rest of my life. However after my second Near
Death Experience, I was spontaneously healed and have not had a single
epileptic seizure since 1995 till today, though I have gone trekking to Kailash
Mansarovar thrice, Everest base camp, Mount Kota Kinabalu and several
unnamed peaks in Uttaranchal, Himachal, Ladakh, Nepal and Tibet since
1995. Slowly but surely, I recovered from paralysis by combining meditation
and NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) which I was practicing regularly since
my first Near Death Experience. After the first NDE, I had turned vegetarian.
After the second NDE, I became a vegan and have strictly abstained from
consuming or using any products of animal origin. 14 years later, in 2008,
during a visit to Gangotri, I had a spontaneous awakening of my third eye,
and started learning Palmistry and Astrology. I started reading palms of total
strangers and found that I could narrate the past of total strangers with
surprising accuracy. I have retained this gift, since 2008 and have accurately
predicted the future of several friends and acquaintances over a twelve year
period. As per numerology, I will be completing 14 years since my Agnya
chakra awakening in 2008, at the age of 56 in 2022.

After my spiritual awakening and two NDEs, I wrote 20 books on ZeNLP and
after publication of my first book titled ZeNLP- the power to succeed, started
getting invitations from large corporates to conduct ZeNLP based stress
Management workshops for their management teams. Since 1995, more
than 9000 managers have attended our ZeNLP sessions where we align their
soul's life plan with their physical, mental, family and spiritual goals. In the

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40 years since my first Near Death Experience, I had found my mission in
realising the immortal soul for myself and my favorite shloka from the Holy
Gita was validated in my NDEs.

The first thing one realises, when you die, or slip into coma, is that though
the body is mortal, the atman is immortal. The atman leaves the body
through the agnya chakra and consciousness remains after death. Post
death consciousness is more vivid than in real life. One can see colours,
unseen during earthly life. One can hear the holy sound OM and the gayatri
mantra in afterlife. Consciousness survives death and souls experience an
awesome sense of love, connectedness and peace. Just as gravity attracts
the physical body downwards, The Hindu cosmic trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and
Mahesh combined with the divine feminine (Saraswati, Mahalakshmi and
Durga) appear as a beam of dazzling light, brighter than the brightest light
on earth, pulls one's consciousness through a divine tunnel. Your whole life
flashes infront of you starting from your birth on a cinemascopic screen,
where one's soul experiences, the emotions encountered in our soul's
earthly journey.

Before reaching the light, one gets a chance to review one's life from a 360
degree perspective and one realizes how other souls felt during your earthly
interactions. You get the chance to experience emotions other souls
experienced during your earthly interactions. Love, forgiveness, gratitude
and unconditional apologies to souls whom you unknowingly or knowingly
hurt including animals, pets, birds and all sentient beings is part of your
learning experience on this earthly plane. You must not carry any illwill or
resentments or hatred into afterlife, so rather than accumulate karma, it is
better to forget, forgive, beg for forgiveness and express gratitude to fellow
souls on the earth plane itself rather than in one's life review after death.

After the life review, the Akashik records which track the journey of the soul
during Kaliyug, which started at the death of Lord Krishna are shown by
Chitragupta, the record keeper. The more spiritual experiences you have on
the earthly plane, the more evolved is your soul. After one analyses one's
Akashik records, the choice is yours. You could choose to reincarnate
immediately or choose to continue your spiritual learning in the afterlife,
with group souls, till you decide to reincarnate to continue your spiritual

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journey on the earthly plane again. Spiritual development in the earthly
plane is much sought after by evolved souls after the Akashik records are
studied in-depth.

In 1995, I set 20 impossible goals, while lying paralyzed at a hospital bed at

Bangalore after a road accident on New Year's night. My goals included
reaching Kailash Manasarovar in Tibet. In 2006, I completed the
circumambulation of Mount Kailash. One of my other goals was to take a dip
at four consecutive kumbh melas on the most auspicious days.

Coincidentally, In 2010 I attended the maha kumbh mela at Haridwar and

took a dip in the Holy Ganges on 14th January 2010. In 2013, I reached
Prayagraj and took a dip in the holy sangam of the Ganga and Yamuna. In
2015, I went to Nashik and took a dip in the Godavari during the Kumbh Mela.
And finally in 2016, I went to the Shipra River near the Mahakaleshwar
temple in Ujjain and took the customary dip in the holy waters of the Shipra.
In 2010, I had just landed at Haridwar Railway station where I ran into a two
young American girls, with their backpacks. I made small talk with them and
found out that they had come from Chengdu in China, where they were
teaching English and were going to Rishikesh for a yoga workshop. These
two young women, were not aware about the kumbh mela and its
significance. So I explained to them that they were fortunate to be at the
right place at the right time and requested them to join me for a dip in the
Holy Ganga at Haridwar on makar sankranti, which they did. To my surprise
these two American ladies were destined to take a dip in the Ganga and
were blessed. After we parted, I realized that these two American English
teachers from China were my Group Souls.

Next, at Allahabad Kumbh in 2013, I met a photographer from Delhi who was
an alumni of Lady Shri Ram College who had come there to document the
Kumbh for a coffee table book for a client. I had randomly requested her to
click one of my photographs which she did. And after we started talking, I
explained her the significance of taking the holy dip during the Kumbh Mela.
It is no coincidence that she accompanied me on the most auspicious day for
taking a dip at Prayagraj. She took a dip at the holy sangam though she had
come on a official assignment. I had met another Group Soul.

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The same thing happened at the Nashik kumbh in 2015, where I met two
other group souls, in the bus from Shirdi to Nashik. This German couple were
backpacking but decided to take a dip in the Godavari on the most auspicious
day of the Kumbh Mela in 2015. In 2016, after I reached Ujjain at midnight.
from Ahmedabad , all the hotels were completely booked so I had no other
option but to sleep on the banks of the Shipra river inside the
Mahakaleshwar temple. I slept at the Ghat itself so that I could get up at 2:30
a.m. in the morning and take the customary dip between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
during the brahma muhurt, which is the most auspicious hours of the day to
take chant 9 malas of the gayatri mantra. Each mala contains 108 rudraksh
beads as per Hindu numerology. As soon as I entered the waters of the
Shipra river at 3 a.m. and started chanting, I happened to bump into a group
of seven rishis, who were waiting at the edge of the waters!

One by one, all seven entered the waters and I could take a dip with these
seven rishis, as I was completing nine dips, because as per Hindu
numerology, nine is an auspicious number. This was a dreamlike moment for
me. And it was like a dream come true. These seven rishis were again Group
Souls and we were destined to meet on at Ujjain In 2016. The goals I had set
in 1995, had actualsed within 21 years. And I had met ten group souls in the
process.

How do you identify Group Souls?

Synchronicity will attract group souls into your life. It could be a random
WhatsApp message. Spiritual messages often reach the right person at the
right time. If you are searching for group souls follow
travel_storytelling_2019 on Instagram.

What is synchronicity?
I had gone to Bhavnath Mahadev in Junagadh for celebrating Mahashivratri
a few years back. Bhavnath Mahadev is a spiritual holy place, where Lord
Shiva himself is present every Shivratri night. At midnight, the Lord comes to
take a dip in the kund, inside Bhavnath Mahadev Temple on Mount Girnar in
Junagadh.
That is exactly why during Mahashivratri millions of Shiva devotees from all
over India and sadhus from the Himalayas descend on Girnar mountain in
February. Now, In 2016, I went to have a darshan of Mahadev, reaching

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Junagadh at 11 p.m. and while walking up Mount Girnar for a dip in Bhavnath
Mahadev, my wallet and phone were stolen in the crowd and I lost my debit
cards and I also lost all my cash and mobile phone. I lost my driving license
and PAN card too. Everything in my wallet was stolen and I was stranded in
a strange place miles away from home. Having travelled to several dangerous
countries in the world including Tibet, I did not panic. I had travelled to
Junagadh from Ahmedabad. I had no money to go back, but I did not lose
hope as I knew why fear, when Lord Shiva is near. I went into the kund and
had nine dips at midnight when I met a gentleman from Kashi Vishwanath
Temple in Sayla, who willingly offered me his phone to make calls. As I had
known Dr. Viral Chaya who was the best ENT surgeon in Jamnagar, a solo
traveller and my book reader and as Jamnagar was the nearest place to
Junagadh I knew, so I called Dr. Chaya who referred me to his cousin brother
Dr Bakul Buch who is the leading psychiatrist at Junagadh. Fortunately for
me, his brother, Dr. Buch had a psychiatric hospital in Junagadh. So he spoke
to his brother at midnight and asked me to contact Dr. Buch and stay at his
house in Junagadh. I spoke to Dr. Buch and looked to thank my benefactor,
who had given me his phone, when he took a dip in the water and never
emerged from the kund and the mobile phone too vanished from my hand
as if it had dissolved into thin air. In the morning, I walked from the kund
after my morning bath, to Junagadh town. I walked and reached Dr. Buch's
hospital who gave me breakfast and also loaned me Rs. 500 so that I could
take a bus back to Ahmedabad. I spent the day with Dr. Buch resting and took
the night bus to Ahmedabad and reached safely without incident. This is my
miracle story of Shivratri. It's an important and critical incident in my life. And
well, I must have met Lord Shiva in disguise at the kund, as he helped me to
reach home safely after being stranded in a strange place, without a single
rupee in my pocket. And as for the driving license and other documents, I
have got the duplicates. And in 2019, I invited Dr. Buch for my Travel
Storytelling Workshop at Ahmedabad International Literature Festival and to
my great happiness, he was there and met me after the session. This
Shivratri, I plan to go to Kashi Vishwanath temple at Sayla and Bhavnath
Mahadev, Junagadh again for thanksgiving.

During the life review and Akashik records review, one is guided by ancient
rishis of antiquity, in their soul form. These rishi munis are advanced souls as

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per the Akashik records and are close to merging with the Holy trinity,
effectively ending their reincarnations and merging with the Parabrahman.
The Vedic Mahavakya, Aham Brahamasmi, which translates to I am the
Supreme Godhead rings true at this stage. Each human being on planet earth
has undergone death and has reincarnated from the Divine. Once you realise
that we are in a learning experience for spiritual development, life will
become more fulfilling.

The most profound truth in Hindu scriptures is from the Garud Puran which
traces the thirteen day journey of the soul from the date of death till the
Akashik records review. For a Hindu soul preparing for death, Kashi or
Benares, is the preferred place to leave this mortal body. Those who cannot
die at Kashi, can be given gangajal (water from the holy Ganges river) before
they leave their mortal body. If Gangajal is unavailable, water from the
Sindhu, Kaveri, Narmada, Shipra, Yamuna, Puskar Sarovar, Mansarovar,
Narayan Sarovar (in Kutch), will help the soul to reach the divine without fail.
The other important fact to be kept in mind by the person who is about to
travel to the divine plane is to chant a shloka from the Holy Gita, if this is not
possible, family and friends should recite shlokas from the second, sixth and
eigth chapter of the Holy Gita.

Lord Krishna says in the Holy Gita

“Among the vedas I am the Samaveda
Among the words I am Om
Among the mantras I am Gayatri
Among the mountains I am Meru
Among the rivers I am Ganga”

So the best option for souls about to transition from the earthly plane to the
divine after the life review and Akashik review and meeting with the rishis of
antiquity, the atman willingly enters the womb of the would be mother on
earth based on past karma, spiritual learning experiences needed in this
rebirth and based on the Akashik records which tracks the time, place and
womb to be reborn. The consent of every soul is the deciding factor before
the soul undergoes temporary amnesia and forgets its past lives and a
innocent newborn baby is born with the reincarnated soul. Till a child is one

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year old it remembers few incidents in its immediate past birth and that is
why some newborns cry or smile based on their past life memories.

Group souls are souls who are at the same stage of spiritual development
and could be classmates or schoolmates or collegemates on the earthly
plane. if they happen to transition from the earthly plane to the divine plane
at the same time and if they have similar karma and are spiritually evolved,
the rishis of antiquity will receive them and guide them in groups and
prepare them for their future lives. All actions in the divine plane are directed
by the Holy Trinity including the Divine Feminine which is the Viraatswarupa
seen by Arjuna during the Mahabharata war. The Viraatswarupa is
omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient and pervades the bhuloka (patal),
bhuvaloka (earthly plane) and swaha (divine plane). All atmans ultimately
merge into the Viraatswarupa after they achieve liberation from the cycle of
birth and death. The journey of the atman in Hinduism is to move towards
the divine through dhyana Yoga, karma yoga and total surrender to the
divine. The vedas say the truth is one, people call him by different names.

I asked for strength,

And Lord Shiva gave me difficulties to make me strong;
I asked for wisdom,
And Lord Jagganathji gave me problems to solve;
I asked for prosperity,
And Lord Krishna gave me brain and brawn to work;
I asked for courage,
And Lord Brahma gave me dangers to overcome;
I asked for love,
And Lord Vishnu gave me troubled people to help;
I asked for favour,
And Goddess Durga gave me opportunities;
I received nothing I wanted...
I asked for adventures
And Adhya Shakti awakened my atman.. .
i did not get what I asked for but received all I needed.

One day a young lad finds a lamp in his attic. This ancient lamp is covered
with dust and soot. There is an inscription on the lamp which cannot be read

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due to the thick soot deposited on it. The lad rubs the lamp gently expecting
the proverbial genie to emerge, but his efforts are
to no avail. Remembering the Chinese adage which says, ‘Don’t curse
darkness but light a lamp to dispel it’, the lad lights the lamp and begins to
make shadows of animals with his hands, playing on the reflections of his
fingers. Soon, he masters the art of shadow play and invites the children of
his village and entertains them with his skillful fingers. Children are enthralled
and request him to teach them this art. The lad teaches these children the
fine art of making shadows of birds, dogs, cats and squirrels. A few weeks
later
this young lad leaves his village and travels far and wide with his magic lamp.

A few months later, he arrives at a village hundreds of miles away from his
native village and sees a huge crowd around a candle-lit tent. He gently asks
one of the villagers about the event. He comes to know that the crowd had
gathered to witness a first-hand display of shadow play. Merging into the
crowd, the young lad finds himself seeing the same shadow tricks he had
taught the children at his native village.

The next morning, he takes his lamp to the river and scrubs it clean with
coconut husks. Finally, all the soot and dust disappears and he is able to read
the tiny inscription on the lamp. It reads, ‘What is invisible, spreads fast and
spreads warmth and joy?’ Can you think of the answer to this question? Think
for a minute. The answer is knowledge! Knowledge is invisible, knowledge
spreads fast and knowledge spreads warmth and joy. So spread this
knowledge about my afterlife experience experienced through two near
death experiences once in 1980 and again in 1994! I have photographs of all
the above experiences which can be emailed on request.
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Murli Menon is the author of ZeNLP- learning through stories and ZeNLP-the
power to relax and ZeNLP-the power to succeed and 20 other travel
storytelling books titled ZeNLP travel guides on Rajputana, Laos, Vietnam,
Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh, India And Thailand, available on amazon books and Google
Play Books worldwide. His hobbies include Palmistry, Facereading and
Astrology. Murli conducts Travel Storytelling webinars online for corporates.
He can be reached at [email protected]

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