WHY SUICIDE?

                                       

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Last Sunday on 06-14-20 one of the very famous, talented & everyone’s favorite Bollywood star Sushant Sing Rajput committed Suicide. It was a very shocking, heartbreaking & tearful news. Om shanti 🙏 & sadgati to his Soul. May God give strength to his family/friends/fans to bear the irreparable loss. It is very painful for person who is committing suicide as well as for his family, friends & fans. Suicide rates have increased significantly in the last few years, it is an epidemic like Covid-19.

Why are so many famous, successful, talented, wealthy and also common people committing suicide? Most likely because of these reasons: 

1. They think problems of living is much more greater then dying. There are many people, who have so much struggle to survive in this world or face this world.
2. Many people are suffering from the chronic mental illnesses.
3. There are many people who commit suicide that do not find meaning to live life after accomplishing materially by means of fame, power, talent, wealth or fashion.

Mind is the culprit in any case of Depression & Suicide.

As God says in Gita:

TEXT 6: Bg 6.6: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. Vedabase.io

How to strengthen our mind to fight against Depression & Suicide?

1. SB: 10.14.58 says पदं पदं यद् विपदां न तेषाम् (padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām) meaning there is struggle & danger at every steps in our life. No one is immune from day to day problems of the life mainly related to family, work, health, wealth & dirty politics. These issues are not permanent, they come & go like summer & winter and we must learn to tolerate them. You are not alone, everyone is in same boat.
2. Seek medical guidance for any curable mental or physical health issues. Have LOL moments with your families & friends. LOL 😂 🤣 😂 is also one of the treatment for any kind of mental or physical stress and remember one thing, Success is not final & Failure is not fatal. 
3. It is good to have a loving families & friends but be mentally prepared that every relationships in this world is temporary. We can be grateful to everyone who contribute in our life. Association of family & friends is essential for advise, care & comforts but simultaneously we have to be self-sufficient and at the end of day we must learn to FLY OUR OWN PLANE. 
4. Do not focus or spend all of your energy for material success only. From inner core we are a Spiritual being covered by a material body. Yes material success is important but we also need to strengthen ourselves internally or grow spiritually to live happy, peaceful and pleasant life. With the spiritual knowledge, wisdom & intelligence we should empower ourselves to face the challenges in this world.
5. Human life is meant for reviving one’s eternal relation with the Lord and all religious injunctions are meant for awakening this dormant instinct of the living entity. Internal happiness is in proportion to our divinity. And our divinity is in proportion to our devotion or unconditional loving relationships to God.

Here God says in Gita:

Bg 2.14 -- O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O son of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

Bg 2.15 -- O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.

Bg 5.7 -- One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled ( Vedabase.io).

Bg 18.58 -- If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such consciousness but act through false ego, not hearing Me, you will be lost.

Have a Blessed Day.

THANK YOU.

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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:

I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Vraja Vihari Dasa, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu (Gujarati & Hindi), Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Repeatedly hearing/reading & meditating the Scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting or Hearing the Vedic Mantras are nourishing to our heart (Soul), transcendental to our consciousness, purifying to our senses and thus helps us to overcome our weaknesses or deficiencies. Yes, we do have good qualities within us but there is always a room for improvement. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.

It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook & Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone & Google search to collect some data. 

Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God (Krishna , Absolute Truth).

NOTE:

Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.

We can follow either the Quran, Bible,Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us, elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. (whichever way we can understand God -- either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy).

Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction (means image, picture...etc) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes. 

I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person (not a abstract or some kind of light) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.

Here Lord says in Gita

Bg 9.17 -- I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.

TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.

Bg:13-12:-- Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).