The death of only son or daughter is the worst kind of loss on earth. It is inconsolable. The father and mother will not be satisfied with any kind of reasoning. But how to overcome grief of death of child in a real way, not by blaming on fate or cursing God. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi once consoled a man whose three year old son had just died. A very devoted and simple devotee had lost his only son, a child of three. The next day he arrived at the Ashram with his family. Referring to them, Bhagavan said: Training of mind helps one to bear sorrows and bereavements with courage; but the loss of one's children is said to be the worst of all grief. Grief only exists as long as one considers oneself to have a definite form; if the form is transcended one knows the One Self to be eternal. There is neither death nor birth. What is born is only the body, and this is the creation of the ego. But the ego is not ordinarily perceived without the body and so is identifie