Death is a gift of God, but if any one kills himself or herself by committing suicide, it is a grave sin. God has given us this precious garment of a human body. So it is our duty to keep it clean and healthy. That death is inevitable doesn’t mean that one should commit suicide or invite death by taking poison. Clothes do get dirty, torn and worn out, but to tear them deliberately, is foolishness. Similarly, the body becomes old and sick and dies. This is the plan of Nature. It is not right to deliberately push the body into the jaws of death .
Some weak-minded students and businessmen who fail in exams and suffer losses in business commit suicide out of fear or stress and anxiety. Such people should never nurture negative thinking or base thoughts of escapism. Even in case of failure, they should not think of running away or committing suicide if they try again they will certainly be successful.
Nature has endowed man with such a flexible life that he can elevate himself as much as he wants. He can overcome the most difficult circumstance and trample all troubles and obstacles to reach the Supreme State. He only needs to realize and have confidence in his abilities.
The omnipotent Supreme Brahman, who can bring about the dissolution of the universe merely by raising His eyebrows, abides in you as your Beloved friend and well-wisher. And a slump or some problems in farming is enough for you to hang yourself to death! What a cheap mentality? Fie on those who commit suicide. Eunuchs will feel insulted if we compare them with such people. They will say, “Babal! We never commit suicide. We even contest elections and enjoy political rule as well. Why do you compare us with such people?” if we term such people as ‘donkey’, even donkeys will get displeased. They will say, “Baba! We never committed suicide. We suffer beatings and bear the cold and face so many troubles in life. Though at times we don’t get anything to eat, we carry burdens the next day without complaining; but we never commit suicide.” If such people are called ‘dogs’, the dogs would say, “We bear hunger and thirst. And if anybody beats us or pelts stones, we groan and then become quiet but don’t commit suicide. We have to lower our tails at times and wag at others, but we are living anyway.” So, if we call suicides dogs, it would disgrace dogs. Donkeys, dogs and eunuchs – all will feel insulted if we compare them with people who kill themselves.
Man has not come into this world to die leading a devilish life indulging in sense pleasures, drinking, meat-eating and disco-dancing. To commit suicide is the sign of a coward mind, a hedonistic mind. Carrying out noble acts, availing oneself of the company of the Satguru to attain Self-realization and liberation are marks of the mind of a sadhaka, a devotee and a yogi.
What do the ignorant do? A little trouble comes their way and they blame the troublemaker and the circumstances or curse themselves considering themselves sinners. Some cowards even go to the extent of contemplating suicide. The pious souls will go to some saint to relieve their sorrows.
Those who go to a Guru gain some keys easily to get over obstacles. Hence they benefit from both sides. On the one hand, they experience peace of mind and find solutions to their problems, while on the other hand they experience a turning point in their life as well.
One should not contemplate suicide under any circumstances and should save his or her mind from sorrow. All sorrows in the world are results of ignorance and lack of understanding. Sorrow cannot exist without lack of understanding. To attribute the sickness of the body to oneself is foolishness. We attribute transient successes and failures to ourselves. We identify ourselves with the body and consider the things, which will desert us as ‘ours’. Isn’t this ignorance? We don’t know ‘that’ which survives even after death, but identify ourselves with that which is bound to perish. Is this not foolishness?
Not just common people, even scholars like Goethe contemplate suicide but hesitate to commit it out of fear. Many learned people too commit suicide only because they lack the wisdom of Veda Vyasa. Otherwise, even a lame and tailless dog with would on its body yelps and tries to save its life if anyone hits it and today’s man commits suicide. How foolish! The moths of the rainy season fly towards a flame and burn their bodies and flutter, but if you try to kill them they will fly away to save their lives.
When the life-giver has given us life, we should make all efforts to protect it. Those who commit suicide wander for many lives as ghosts for they do not get a new body. Even he who takes part in carrying the dead body of a suicide to the cremation ground, has to suffer and face problems. The Prashar smriti and Kautilya Arthashastra go to the extent of saying that one who commits suicide disregards nature’s gift, the body, a boon given by God. And hence, one should not carry the dead body of such a wretched person to the cremation ground. A sweeper should be told to tie the body with a rope and drag it along the street so that others seeing it do not repeat the foolishness.
Seek refuge in the truth, in God and do not be influenced by circumstance. Those who take circumstances for real, at times, contemplate and commit suicide out of fear. This is a big crime.
In one of my satsangs held in Surat in December 2008, I gave a message to the jewelers, who were victims of the slump in diamonds at that time. Those who contemplate suicide in the face of troubles should, having realized their helplessness, remember the power of God. On our part, leave no stone unturned in tackling the situation, but when you have come to the point of contemplating suicide, dissolve your ego. You will find a solution to your problem on the same day or in a day or two.
‘When you are in the dead of the night,
With dark clouds hovering above;
Your goal still seems to be far away,
And you are totally helpless.’
What will you do then?
Achyutanant govind
Namoccaran bhes jat
Nasyanti sakala rogah
Satyam satyam vadamyaham
‘O Achyuta! O Ananta! O Govinda! The truth do I day, and the truth indeed is that all chanting the Lord’s name like this.’
Suicide is a mental disease. Man becomes cowardly enough to contemplate suicide only when his mind has reached the height of cowardice. What one should do at that time is cry out to God.
In the Skanda Purana (Kashi Khanda, PUrvardha - 12-1,13) it is said: ‘Those people who kill themselves will enter (the world of ) blinding darkness. After experiencing the tortures in a thousand hells, they are born as village pigs. Therefore, suicide should never be committed anywhere by a wise one. Nothing auspicious will befall those who kill themselves, here in this world or in the others.’
According to the ‘Parashar smriti (4-1,2)’, ‘One who kills himself lives in a hell called Andhatamisra for 60,000 years.’
The media would be doing a great service to society by publishing such strong lines under the pictures of those who kill themselves, so that the readers will never think of committing suicide. This satsang should be propagated at places where there is prevalence of suicide.
Some weak-minded students and businessmen who fail in exams and suffer losses in business commit suicide out of fear or stress and anxiety. Such people should never nurture negative thinking or base thoughts of escapism. Even in case of failure, they should not think of running away or committing suicide if they try again they will certainly be successful.
Nature has endowed man with such a flexible life that he can elevate himself as much as he wants. He can overcome the most difficult circumstance and trample all troubles and obstacles to reach the Supreme State. He only needs to realize and have confidence in his abilities.
The omnipotent Supreme Brahman, who can bring about the dissolution of the universe merely by raising His eyebrows, abides in you as your Beloved friend and well-wisher. And a slump or some problems in farming is enough for you to hang yourself to death! What a cheap mentality? Fie on those who commit suicide. Eunuchs will feel insulted if we compare them with such people. They will say, “Babal! We never commit suicide. We even contest elections and enjoy political rule as well. Why do you compare us with such people?” if we term such people as ‘donkey’, even donkeys will get displeased. They will say, “Baba! We never committed suicide. We suffer beatings and bear the cold and face so many troubles in life. Though at times we don’t get anything to eat, we carry burdens the next day without complaining; but we never commit suicide.” If such people are called ‘dogs’, the dogs would say, “We bear hunger and thirst. And if anybody beats us or pelts stones, we groan and then become quiet but don’t commit suicide. We have to lower our tails at times and wag at others, but we are living anyway.” So, if we call suicides dogs, it would disgrace dogs. Donkeys, dogs and eunuchs – all will feel insulted if we compare them with people who kill themselves.
Man has not come into this world to die leading a devilish life indulging in sense pleasures, drinking, meat-eating and disco-dancing. To commit suicide is the sign of a coward mind, a hedonistic mind. Carrying out noble acts, availing oneself of the company of the Satguru to attain Self-realization and liberation are marks of the mind of a sadhaka, a devotee and a yogi.
What do the ignorant do? A little trouble comes their way and they blame the troublemaker and the circumstances or curse themselves considering themselves sinners. Some cowards even go to the extent of contemplating suicide. The pious souls will go to some saint to relieve their sorrows.
Those who go to a Guru gain some keys easily to get over obstacles. Hence they benefit from both sides. On the one hand, they experience peace of mind and find solutions to their problems, while on the other hand they experience a turning point in their life as well.
One should not contemplate suicide under any circumstances and should save his or her mind from sorrow. All sorrows in the world are results of ignorance and lack of understanding. Sorrow cannot exist without lack of understanding. To attribute the sickness of the body to oneself is foolishness. We attribute transient successes and failures to ourselves. We identify ourselves with the body and consider the things, which will desert us as ‘ours’. Isn’t this ignorance? We don’t know ‘that’ which survives even after death, but identify ourselves with that which is bound to perish. Is this not foolishness?
Not just common people, even scholars like Goethe contemplate suicide but hesitate to commit it out of fear. Many learned people too commit suicide only because they lack the wisdom of Veda Vyasa. Otherwise, even a lame and tailless dog with would on its body yelps and tries to save its life if anyone hits it and today’s man commits suicide. How foolish! The moths of the rainy season fly towards a flame and burn their bodies and flutter, but if you try to kill them they will fly away to save their lives.
When the life-giver has given us life, we should make all efforts to protect it. Those who commit suicide wander for many lives as ghosts for they do not get a new body. Even he who takes part in carrying the dead body of a suicide to the cremation ground, has to suffer and face problems. The Prashar smriti and Kautilya Arthashastra go to the extent of saying that one who commits suicide disregards nature’s gift, the body, a boon given by God. And hence, one should not carry the dead body of such a wretched person to the cremation ground. A sweeper should be told to tie the body with a rope and drag it along the street so that others seeing it do not repeat the foolishness.
Seek refuge in the truth, in God and do not be influenced by circumstance. Those who take circumstances for real, at times, contemplate and commit suicide out of fear. This is a big crime.
In one of my satsangs held in Surat in December 2008, I gave a message to the jewelers, who were victims of the slump in diamonds at that time. Those who contemplate suicide in the face of troubles should, having realized their helplessness, remember the power of God. On our part, leave no stone unturned in tackling the situation, but when you have come to the point of contemplating suicide, dissolve your ego. You will find a solution to your problem on the same day or in a day or two.
‘When you are in the dead of the night,
With dark clouds hovering above;
Your goal still seems to be far away,
And you are totally helpless.’
What will you do then?
Achyutanant govind
Namoccaran bhes jat
Nasyanti sakala rogah
Satyam satyam vadamyaham
‘O Achyuta! O Ananta! O Govinda! The truth do I day, and the truth indeed is that all chanting the Lord’s name like this.’
Suicide is a mental disease. Man becomes cowardly enough to contemplate suicide only when his mind has reached the height of cowardice. What one should do at that time is cry out to God.
In the Skanda Purana (Kashi Khanda, PUrvardha - 12-1,13) it is said: ‘Those people who kill themselves will enter (the world of ) blinding darkness. After experiencing the tortures in a thousand hells, they are born as village pigs. Therefore, suicide should never be committed anywhere by a wise one. Nothing auspicious will befall those who kill themselves, here in this world or in the others.’
According to the ‘Parashar smriti (4-1,2)’, ‘One who kills himself lives in a hell called Andhatamisra for 60,000 years.’
The media would be doing a great service to society by publishing such strong lines under the pictures of those who kill themselves, so that the readers will never think of committing suicide. This satsang should be propagated at places where there is prevalence of suicide.
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