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Suicide is not the answer to your problems on earth
Everyone wants a peaceful and happy life; with health, wealth and loving relationships. However, when things do not go the way we expect them to, it disappoints us. Sometimes things reach such an extent that a person decides to end his own life and commits suicide.

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Suicide is the deliberate effort taken to end one’s life when it still holds life energy and when the possibility of death was otherwise not there.
In spite of being the most superior beings on earth, only human beings commit suicide. This is because no other being operates out of knowledge and a belief system about the future. And neither do they live out expectations.
It is possible that a person who has thought of committing suicide has been threatened by the future. They desire something as their personal experience and their existence is only to experience that as a reality. It could a financial desire or the desire for the love of a person, or freedom from a health problem or a debt. It could be a physical or psychic pain where their present circumstances give an illusion that that experience is not a possibility in future. They feel powerless and have accepted their powerlessness and hence want to end their lives.
However, the decision to end life is due to the lack of knowledge of the real self. You are not your body, you have a physical body and a non-physical life energy. If reality was that you end with your death, then killing oneself might seem like the right decision. But that is not the case. One needs to start again, from the beginning, without the current resource and in fact with a bad resource and in a bad situation. With suicide you have ended your physical life, but not the existence of your soul. The karma you have created for yourself still has to be experienced.
Ending one’s life is never the answer to ending one’s problems. It is only by connecting with the self that one can free oneself from negative experiences and also create the life one wishes to lead, where suicide is never a possibility.
It should be noted that one must never fear the place where a suicide has occurred or the person who has departed, might affect them. This is not possible. When you meditate, you raise yourself to divine consciousness, where no negative energy can harm you, the people surrounding you and the place you dwell.
Realise that you are more powerful than the departed soul; you have a body with life energy and a soul. A powerless soul can never have the power to disturb a powerful soul connected with the divine.
Wishing you a life full of peace, health and happiness.
Aham Brahmasmi!!
—Shri Aasaanji is a non-religious, contemporary Spiritual Master and the founder of the Atmayoga Foundation (Institute for Inner-Science and Self-Transformation) www.atmayoga.in
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