LAZARUS SYNDROME: 'CORPSE' COMES BACK TO LIFE

WOMAN WAS NOT ACTUALLY DEAD COMES BACK
TO LIFE IN COLOMBIAN FUNERAL PARLOR

BOGOTA - Funeral workers were surprised to notice a woman's corpse breathing, several hours after she was pronounced dead in a Cali hospital, reported Colombian media on Wednesday. Funeral home workers in the Colombian city of Cali got the shock of a lifetime when an apparently dead 45-year-old woman, Noelia Serna, suddenly started breathing and moving as they prepared her for burial. Local media said the women had been declared clinically dead at a medical facility Tuesday after having been hospitalized in serious condition with a neurological condition a day earlier. The woman had been rushed to the Rafeal Uribe Uribe clinic on Monday for emergency treatment for complications related to multiple sclerosis. After suffering organ failure, and following several attempts at resuscitation by doctors, she was pronounced dead the following day. "The instruments the patient was connected to gave no blood pressure or heart rate readings," said Miguel Angel Saavedra, a doctor at the clinic where the woman was treated. Medical staff at the facility signed the women's death certificate and her body was transferred to a funeral home to be prepared for burial. But, in a case of what physicians call "Lazarus Syndrome," the woman was not actually dead. "When they were going to apply formaldehyde, the patient began to breathe again and make movements," doctor Saavedra explained. Hours later, after the woman's body had been taken to a funeral home, the hospital received a telephone call saying that the she was in fact breathing and moving.

Doctors identified the case as Lazarus Syndrome - a spontaneous return of circulation in the body after clinical death - one of only 38 cases ever recorded. After the ordeal Noelia Serna was returned to the hospital where she is currently receiving treatment for her condition in an intensive care unit, said hospital director Luis Rendon. Her relatives have found no explanation, so they said it has been a kind of “miracle”.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

And then, by the grace of the higher world, when they take us in there, we wonderfully have some experience of the transcendental world. It is by their grace, by their mercy, not as a matter of right. ... “I can say very easily, give up everything you have. What do you have? Nothing. Your experience and the wealth you have, janma mrtyu jara vyadhi, birth, death, old age and disease - all will pass, they will leave you. They will disappoint you in the next moment. So, you have nothing. Give up the attraction for the present environment. Come, jump desperately to come near Me, and I shall give you shelter. You will be compensated amply.” This is the call of Krishna in Bhagavad-gita.

Śrīla Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Mahārāja :
“Follow the Angels - The Path of Dedication”
Part Three: “Progress by Grace of the Higher”
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