Page 28 - All India Magazine Dec-2024

Suicide

Know for certain that to commit suicide is the most foolish action
that a man can do; because the end of the body does not mean
the end of the consciousness and what was troubling you while
you were alive continues to trouble you when you are dead, with-
out the possibility of diverting your mind which you can get when
you are alive.
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Q: I feel that I am your blank child born with blank fortune; such a child
has no mission to fulfil in life. Isn’t it better to go away from the world?

It is in this world that you have to change and that the change
is possible. If you run away from this world, you will have to come
again probably in worse conditions and you will have to do every-
thing all over again.
It is much better not to be a coward, to face now the situation
and to make the necessary effort to conquer. The help is always
with you; you must learn to avail yourself of it.

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Q: Why does one suffer when one commits suicide?

Why does one commit suicide? Because one is a coward....
When one is cowardly one always suffers.

Q: In the next life one suffers again?
The psychic being comes with a definite purpose to go through
a set of experiences and to learn and make progress. Then if you
leave before its work is finished it will have to come back to do it
again under much more difficult conditions. So all that you have
avoided in one life you will find again in another, and more diffi-
cult. And even without leaving in this way, if you have difficulties
to overcome in life, you have what we usually call a test to pass,

28 All India Magazine, December 2024