About 800000 people commit suicide every year, of these 17% are residents of India, there are several reasons why people commit suicide, some of them are financial problems( indebtedness, dowry, unemployment), emotional problems( love affairs, relationship issues and family problems), health problems, expectations from parents( 1 out of 46 students commit suicide in Kota, where they go to take coaching to enter into IIT) etc., one will shock to know that 80% of the suicide victims were literate, higher than the national average literacy rate of 74% and they are committed in cities like chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, there several organizations like WHO working to stop and reduce the people's inclination to commit suicide they have made some laws and governance but haven't yet got the required results, still people are attempting and committing suicide.
One more reason why people attempt suicide is that they are unaware of their own real self. They feel I am this body and if this body is finished by some how or other I will be relieved from stress and tensions. But it's not the fact we are not this body we are eternal soul, body is just temporary covering, if we give up one body we will have to take another body, Bhagavad Gita gives the clear understanding of this fact in text 2.20 ,"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.", so even if body is dead soul continues to exists. Soul is having 2 coverings of body over him, one body is subtle which is made up of mind, intelligence and ego, and another covering is gross body made up of earth, water, fire, air, eather, So when one commits suicide he destroys the gross body in which soul was residing, now soul don't have any gross body but has subtle body, Those who live in such subtle bodies are called ghosts. This ghostly position is very painful because a ghost has intelligence, mind and ego and wants to enjoy material life, but because he doesn’t have a gross material body he can't enjoy, and people are unaware of this simple facts although they are highly learned.
I know one gentleman who was going to railway track to jump in front of the running train but he overheard the song saying ," let's go to that place which is free from all problems of life, no sadness and miseries exist there, but only exist a love and satisfaction". He was amazed by this song and started searching for such a place and eventually he came to Krishna temple where he started reading Gita and realized, yes, there exists a place which is free from all enxieties and miseries of this world( Vaikunth) and he also learned this human life is meant to attain that eternal place of love and happiness.
So let's not take problems and traumas, so serious, understand that this life is not all and all but we have an eternal life with our eternal father( Lord Krishna) and this current life is meant to attain the qualification to reach that place where eternal happiness is waiting for us.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga dasa
One more reason why people attempt suicide is that they are unaware of their own real self. They feel I am this body and if this body is finished by some how or other I will be relieved from stress and tensions. But it's not the fact we are not this body we are eternal soul, body is just temporary covering, if we give up one body we will have to take another body, Bhagavad Gita gives the clear understanding of this fact in text 2.20 ,"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.", so even if body is dead soul continues to exists. Soul is having 2 coverings of body over him, one body is subtle which is made up of mind, intelligence and ego, and another covering is gross body made up of earth, water, fire, air, eather, So when one commits suicide he destroys the gross body in which soul was residing, now soul don't have any gross body but has subtle body, Those who live in such subtle bodies are called ghosts. This ghostly position is very painful because a ghost has intelligence, mind and ego and wants to enjoy material life, but because he doesn’t have a gross material body he can't enjoy, and people are unaware of this simple facts although they are highly learned.
I know one gentleman who was going to railway track to jump in front of the running train but he overheard the song saying ," let's go to that place which is free from all problems of life, no sadness and miseries exist there, but only exist a love and satisfaction". He was amazed by this song and started searching for such a place and eventually he came to Krishna temple where he started reading Gita and realized, yes, there exists a place which is free from all enxieties and miseries of this world( Vaikunth) and he also learned this human life is meant to attain that eternal place of love and happiness.
So let's not take problems and traumas, so serious, understand that this life is not all and all but we have an eternal life with our eternal father( Lord Krishna) and this current life is meant to attain the qualification to reach that place where eternal happiness is waiting for us.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga dasa
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