The meaning of offering 49 days for the deceased.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

The descendants' chanting of Buddhist chants to their loved ones within 49 days is very respectful. This is also an imitation of the teachings that Buddhists follow. So, very right there is nothing wrong. However, it is important that while chanting, people must sincerely earnestly, bring wholeheartedly to chant prayers. If so, the person who recites the chant will benefit, but the spirit will also benefit somewhat.

 

 

According to Jizō says: if the person dies after 49 days, it is called the death row, the spirit of the deceased, depending on the karma, lives up to the karma. If the present life creates many good things, it will live in a peaceful realm. On the contrary, life is born into suffering. Depending on the creation of good and evil karma, life is born through different species and realms in the six paths of samsara. It is also according to this teaching that Buddhists often worship Trai Sang on the day of death.

The purpose is thanks to the aspiration of the monks and nuns, called them like the sea, that the spirit of the spirit falls into goodness. However, if you consider it according to the meaning of the two superscript letters, it is not only for 49 days. Because the super bridge means praying to overcome:  "from the realm of darkness and evil, to get over to the realm of good and peaceful".  In that sense, we always have to pray for super, pray for ourselves, and at the same time pray for everyone to always live in peace.

In that sense, we always have to pray for me and for him to be forever free from suffering to be happy and free, not just within 49 days.

So, after 49 days, Buddhists and family members continue to chant Buddhist chants, which is very good. Whether or not they pray for supernatural or not, Buddhists should also chant Buddhist chants for their present life to be peaceful and to be peaceful in the next life.

And after every chanting of the Buddha's chanting like that, Buddhists should also pray for the spirituality of their relatives, as well as for other souls, to extend to the Dharma realm of sentient beings that unknowingly be fully Buddhist. religion. This is a manifestation of the Buddhist altruistic compassion, like that, is also very good.

The meaning of the 49-day worshiping ceremony  : “ … Because Buddhism believes that it is not all for humans to die. After this body disintegrates, the consciousness, depending on karma, is reborn in the realms corresponding to the karmic cause created by the other, except for the great masters such as the Buddha, the Bodhisattvas, and Arhat has cut the line of craving, has got rid of the cycle of samsara. This world of consciousness not only has the human realm, but also other realms, if counted from the bottom up, there are: hell, hungry ghost, animal, a-tu-la, human and natural ...

Thus, the 49-day ritual is really meaningful only for those who have not yet determined to be reborn in any realm, or are in a lethargic state of the bardo. Such super-prayers have the effect of reminding and reminding the deceased to focus on the good deeds done or earnestly perform good thoughts, so that the consciousness is reborn in a better realm. "

However, if you work to pray for the deceased, you will do so within 49 days that the blessing will be strong, not to say that after 49 days, there is no merit, but that merit is so strong. trying to reap very benefits, the rest are all about people working. So if Buddhists want to pray for supernatural things, they should do so within 49 days.

Because according to Buddhism, after 49 days, there is a discernment, like the trial in the human world has finished. In the six paths to go, one will follow their own karma and be born in one of the six realms. So do merit to pray for a deceased loved one, do it within 49 days.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/9/2020.