魂無き死者を送り出すとき思う事

投稿者: | 2022年11月22日

先週、90歳を過ぎた祖母が亡くなり、通夜葬儀とバタバタしておりました。祖母は10年近く認知症を発症し、施設のお世話になっておりましたが、身体機能は丈夫で自分では何も考えられない状況でもゆったりと過ごしていたようです。

誰か近しい親族がなくなるときには、それなりに予兆があったり、夢で告げられたりするものです。祖母の場合はお告げがなく、いきなりの訃報でした。この理由については、祖母は魂を使いはたして無い状態だったからです。

様々な事業やイベントなどを手広く手掛けていた祖父に付き添い、昔人だった祖母は苦労や心労がありながらも祖父をサポートとし支え尽くしていました。施設に入所する際、覇気もなく希薄な状態でしたが、死ぬ時には祖母としての魂が無くなっており妖怪となっていました。もはや、祖母としての意思は失われていました。

通夜→葬式を経て弔問客や親族が懐かしみ悲しみ、お坊さんにお経もあげてもらいました。そのため、周囲の魂が祖母に寄り集まり葬式が終わるまでには、祖母のような存在が生まれました。「祖母」というものを依り代にして、生きている人間が、悼み、成仏してくれと求めて捧げられた魂が、「祖母」っぽい何かが生まれました。その存在は、なぜ自分がここに存在しているのかも分からない状態で、子孫(この場合親の兄弟姉妹)の所に行きさらに魂を吸っていたようです。これから、その存在は何かしら役に立つことで、子孫の供養を重ねることで魂を増やしていき、やがてまた人間として生まれる日が来るかもしれません。輪廻というものはそういうものです。

ただ、はたしてそれは「祖母」かというと「祖母っぽいなにか」でしょう。大きい魂に意思は宿ります。人としての魂が失われれば、当然意思も失われます。運よく来世で出会えたとしても、もう祖母とはかけ離れた存在であることは確かだと思います。最近、前世の記憶を持たない魂が増えているみたいですが、祖母のような状態の方が増えたのではないでしょうか。

皆さんも、どうか生きている間に魂を消耗しないように、魂が少ない方は魂を回復させ人として来世生まれ変われるよう願っております。この晩秋、魂がないということは、親しいものに虫の知らせも届けれないだろうし、供養してくれる子孫がいなければ自分自身が消滅してしまうんだろうと思わされる出来事でした。

Last week, my grandmother, who was over 90 years old, passed away, and we had a wake funeral. My grandmother developed dementia for nearly 10 years and was taken care of by the facility, but her physical function was strong and she seemed to be relaxed even in situations where she could not think about anything.

When a close relative disappears, there is a certain amount of foreboding or dreaming. In the case of my grandmother, there was no announcement and it was a sudden news of her death. The reason for this is that my grandmother was in a state where she could not use her soul.

She accompanied her grandfather, who was involved in various projects and events, and her grandmother, who was a person of the past, supported her and supported her despite her hardships and worries. When she entered the facility, she was in a weak state with no hegemony, but when she died, her soul as a grandmother was gone and she became a monster. My intention as a grandmother was gone.

After the wake and funeral, mourners and relatives missed and mourned, and the priest gave the sutra. Therefore, by the time the spirits around her gathered and the funeral was over, she was born. Using the term “grandmother” as yorishiro, a soul dedicated to a living person to mourn and become Buddha was born something resembling “grandmother.” It seems that the being, without knowing why he was here, went to his offspring (in this case, his parents’ brothers and sisters) and sucked more souls. From now on, their existence will be useful in some way, and they will increase their souls by holding memorial services for their descendants, and the day may come when they will be born as human beings again. That’s what reincarnation is.

However, if it is “grandmother,” it is “something like grandmother.” Big souls have intentions. If you lose your soul as a person, you lose your will. Even if I am lucky enough to meet her in the next life, I think it is certain that she is far from my grandmother. Recently, there seems to be an increase in the number of souls who do not have memories of their previous lives, but I think the number of people who are in the condition of grandmothers has increased.

I hope that those who have few souls can recover their souls and be reborn as human beings in the next life so that their souls will not be consumed during their lifetimes. This late autumn, the absence of a soul led me to believe that the news of insects would not be delivered to those who were close to me, and that I would disappear if I did not have a descendant to hold a memorial service for me.