Yoga Sutra III- 23-SOPAKRAMAM NIRUPAKRAMAM CA KARMA TAT SAMYAMAD APARANTA JNANAM ARISTEBHYO VA - Karmas are of two kinds: quickly manifesting and slowly manifesting. By samyama on them, or on the portents of death, the knowledge of the time of death is obtained.Swami Satchidananda translated the above sutra without commentary.
From "How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood:
"Portents of death include various physical and psychical phenomena, together with visions of supernatural beings. (It is better not to be too explicit here, lest the reader should alarm himself unduly!) Hindus believe that it is very important to know the exact hour of one's death in advance, because the thoughts one is thinking at that moment will be some degree the nature of one's afterlife."
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