`  :As I understand it Mukunda Goswami and other devotees were with George when he left his body: ``According to Shankar, George positioned two pictures of Hindu gods Krishna and Rama around his bed, and he chanted the Krishna mantra. Two more of George’s close friends from the Krishna faith, Shayam Sundara and Mukunda, were there chanting quietly into their meditation beads, while George passed away at 1:20pm on the 29th of November, 2001.``  reference   VNN article . Still, the way the description is given needs to be fixed - from the references it does not sound like anyone knows for sure if George was chanting himself (i.e. in his mind) as he died. Regards,  `