Lilasukha Dasi Has Departed

 

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Priita Devi Dasi

Trying to process, and come to terms, with the sudden loss of my godsister and neighbor, Lilasukha. She died of a brain aneurysm and it's complications. One minute she was speaking with Mathew [rents place behind hers], and the next she had fallen to the ground.

It shows us how quickly any of us can go! And spiritually we need to get, and stay, prepared. [Ok, talking to myself.] 

But it also gives an idea to take better care of our health. Actually Lilasukha did take good care of hers, but she did have high blood pressure. I could kick myself cuz less than a year ago when she lost her husband, I went to her house, and in casual conversation asked about her own health. She said except for high blood pressure, she was fine. I simply replied: "Oh that's no big deal, just stay off the salt."

Now I wish I could turn back the clock as I googled causes of brain aneurysm and a big one is high blood pressure! I wish I had pushed the point to her to keep a very close eye on hers and diet and etc. So I am adding the point here for all of us to tweak our diets, especially any in the old foggy category like myself. 

Even, we think we ARE eating healthy, and yet there IS more we can do. Another cause of brain aneurysms - thinning of the arteries. They can be strengthened by Vit C found in oranges, peppers, etc. One upon a time I ate about 90% raw food diet for about a year and a half, and I was healing. For reasons not worth getting into, I had to stop, Slowly I am trying to get back into it. 

Now, I do not believe everyone should go rawfoodist. But I do believe in kali yuga too many of us have trouble getting enough fruits and vegetables in us, especially when adding in the various pollution factors which puts more stress on our body to work harder in an attempt to detox. Uncooked food and/or juicing makes that easier.

So I am humbly asking everyone out there to reconsider your diet and if there are any tweaks you can make. Even just decrease the salt or fried foods. Please do something to help stick around.

Anyway, I won't pretend Lilasukha and I were best friends, but also not the opposite. I had so much respect for her. I served under Lilasukha in Gurukula K-3. I lived nearby her, twice. [temple apartments tho across the driveway & hill, later our own homes]. She was one of my daughters high-school teachers, and in adulthood sometimes even talked on the phone with Lilasukha. So this unexpected loss has hit us too.

If anyone else's leaving can be put off by decreasing salt, eating more fruits and fresh veggies, etc, etc, I will consider this post a good one. I should add, some people are low in sodium. They are fewer, but please be responsible and know your own health. Plus, I do not say no salt, as the human body needs some salt to function. For most low salt works. Please talk to your licensed Health Care Provider.

Also, all respects and prayers to Lilasuka and her daughter Nila, and son Narottama. My own daughter just texted me, as her husband said due to a Covid scare, the hospital would not let Nila or Narottama see their mother at all. They never got to say goodbye. Please keep them in your prayers.