No to Suicide || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 Over the last century that's been one of the more important questions.
00:03 Why to live at all?
00:04 Why not commit suicide?
00:05 They don't like when we use the word commit anymore.
00:07 So they say why not die by suicide?
00:09 So why not die by suicide?
00:11 And wisdom has the answer.
00:13 Because if you choose suicide, you are giving up on something much higher.
00:17 You are closing the possibility.
00:19 What is the possibility of living as a Jeevan Mukt?
00:22 Of living joyfully as the dead one.
00:25 Who is the Jeevan Mukt?
00:26 Who is the dead one?
00:28 Even in death there is great joy.
00:30 So when you choose suicide, you are closing on yourself the tremendous possibility of
00:34 that joy.
00:35 That joy is so immense that it makes all the torment worth it.
00:40 Know that your problem is not life.
00:43 Had your problem been life, suicide might have been helpful.
00:46 Your problem is your notions about life.
00:48 Don't drop life, drop the notions.