An important topic for today.
Suicide.
Hmmn.
Ending your own life.
Who would do it ?
Someonewho does not know what life is about.
So what IS life about?
Have you had these questions too?
Even while not being suicidal ?
I did, all the time, and it set me off on this wonderful quest-
WHAT is the aim of my life ? What IS the aim of my life ? What is the AIM of my life?
WHY am I living ?
You get the drift.
Casual, fleeting questions meandering in - or weighing down when angry or hurt by turn of events.
Suicide is one topic where ignorance is NOT bliss, even if many take recourse to it convinced that it IS so.
It isn't.
Like we had done once before,
Lets start at the very beginning.
A very good place to start.
We had been a part of the Universal Energy before each one of us chose to separate and get into the cycle of life and death to experience the joy of Creation for ourselves.
It was our own considered choice.
Along the way, as we became humans and journeyd upwards to being better and better, we collected a lot of mental impurities which we then needed to peel away for the brilliance within to shine.
After each lifetime, we review what we have done, and choose the next one setting certain targets for ourselves.
As the urge to purify ourselves is primal, there are times when we set difficult targets for ourselves.
Situations leading to thoughts of ending one's life come when we do not recognise the earlier smaller tests that come our way and react habitually-out of impatience or anger or ego.
Such a reaction may give us a sense of satisfaction, but it is temporary.
It may hurt the other person but it harms us many times more.
Taking one's life does not solve anything because nothing 'finishes'.
There is no endless sleep or forgiveness, no understanding Lord or God or Saint with open arms to lead you to whatever you have imagined or are sure of.
You yourself had chosen those difficult situations because once upon a time not many decades ago, when you were in your spiritual form, you were sure that you would overcome those difficulties.
Now, in a physical body with a bit of a narrowed outlook, you can't cast away the body you have chosen to learn those lessons to ascend spiritually.
Having left the body, the first thing you will realize is that NOW you can't change anything, and your options to choose the next birth are also limited.
The feeling that dying is an end is a myth, a fantasy.
It messes up a lot of plans because you may have chosen a tough path to illuminate it for some others, and now they are left stranded.
It is not Karma,because Karma is not punishment but merely the Law of Nature.
If you leave your work unfinished, you have to come back later in much tougher circumstances with the added pattern of running away from life.
It would get tougher with each failure.
The wonderful welcome that one reads about, the loving family waiting to receive, the golden glow, the spirit guides-it would be missing, because one has not raised one's consciousness to that level.
One finds oneself not only alive and conscious but also in a helpless state of limbo where one sees the consequences of one's action, it's negative effect on others, but unable to do anything about it.
When we leave this body, that is all we do.
When we leave this body, that is all we do.
Leave the body.
The same consciousness remains, the same characterthat we earned on earth by our behaviour.
It doesn't suddenly become Divine.
Sometimes, people who have come back from a near-death-experience after trying to commit suicide, have described how they were roundly scolded for this 'stupidity' and asked to be more giving and less self-centred.
Each of them changed.
Gave up abusing their body.
Reached out to strained relatives and friends.
Formed support-groups and became more patient and loving.
Whether the cause is an illness, a heart-break, looming financial crisis or loneliness.
Whether the cause is an illness, a heart-break, looming financial crisis or loneliness.
The answer is in turning away from darkness towards light.
To opening our inner eyes to the light that is always present around us.
In learning to meditate and getting in touch with our breath, one at a time, so that we do not carry the burden of the past and future every moment.
In dusting the cobwebs from our strenght of mind and letting it shine through, sliver by sliver.
Be positive.
Trust yourself.
After all each of you are a unique Spiritual Being.
Think back to a tough test you gave when you were 5 or 6 years old.
You survived it, didn't you?
You will survive these difficult times too.
Love yourself.
And give unconditional love to others.
Don't think as to whether they deserve it or not.
Don't we receive such love sometimes?!
Just give.
It will work like the beam of light which will show you the way out of your heart's darkness.
Think, chew on this -
