Posts by Dr Keshav Anand Das

“Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”

Sinead O’Connor

Suicide is a major public health concern and the leading cause of death. Unfortunately, a large number of teens, students and young adults are taking their own life due to relationship issues, feeling overwhelmed with their studies, or having dreams that don’t come true.

Do you know this?

Taking one’s own life is the worst sin according to many religious scriptures. It is said that those who opt for suicide are subject to suffer ten thousand years in hell, followed by an even longer period as a ghost.

Have a look at these figures:

There are a lot of people who have taken their own lives. Sadly, the living are unable to interact with them; they can only sense their presence and observe them. This can be a very frustrating experience because even if they can see you, they can’t talk to you.

You have no right to take your own Life!

Taking your life is a sin in many religious scriptures because it goes against God’s will. Life is a precious, priceless gift that is given by God to us to understand and reach our ultimate goal of attaining Him.

We should never think about killing ourselves, no matter how hard things are or how sad we are. We have the right to try to find a solution, but we don’t have the right to take away this precious gift of life. Taking your own life is never logical or justified .

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” – Juliette Lewis

Cowards kill themselves, but brave and heroic men don’t give up when things get hard. Instead, they work hard to find solutions. According to scriptures, God created solutions before He created problems – this proves that every problem has an solution.

However,The best solution is not to try and fix the problem as it will eventually pass; instead, stopping someone from taking their own life is what’s important.

How about Spiritual Suicide?

According to scriptures people who are disconnected from God are already in a state of spiritual suicide because they are killing their our own souls  .

Let me tell you who all are committing spiritual suicide

• Those who are disconnected from God , 
• Those who believe that they are God,
• Those who say everything is formless,
• Those who say there is no God
• Those who say there is no  soul
• Those  who say and make everything zero 

I bet you did not know  this!

Around 99% of people who are not interested in God are already dead ,their soul is deactivated and have already committed suicide before they were born .

Instead of killing ourselves mentally or physically, we should try to live a joyful, God-centered life. Let’s promise to live the best lives we can while following the right path of  righteousness.

Connect to Him before you are Dead.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying, states: 

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.“

Oh my Lord! Where are You? Where am I? Yet, I yearn to be Your humble servant. I know, becoming Your slave seems impossible! But within me resides a tiny drop of hope, a drop that submerges in an overwhelming ocean of separation. And in that state, my soul trembles with fear!

Jiva Goswami

Purport: You may wonder, why does the soul shiver in fear? The soul quivers due to the apprehension of God’s unwillingness to accept it. How can the all-merciful God not accept a servant who experiences profound separation from Him?

A pure devotee, however, contemplates, “Why would God ever accept me? Mere feelings of separation do not render me worthy of His acceptance.” Advanced devotees always perceive themselves as sinful and wretched.

This fear is a spiritual fear, born out of a profound sense of separation from God. Mundane fear breeds self-absorption, while spiritual fear invokes deep remembrance of God’s form, qualities, and pastimes.

Now, let’s understand how a drop of hope sinks in an ocean of separation.

When the hope of attaining God remains unfulfilled, it intensifies the feelings of separation. These emotions surge, creating an insurmountable ocean of separation that engulfs even that tiny drop of hope, leaving the devotee seemingly hopeless.

One might fear that hopelessness would lead to depression and a loss of enthusiasm to serve God. However, paradoxically, this hopelessness actually inspires profound sentiments of God’s causeless mercy.

Through daily darshan, partaking in prasadam, receiving realizations, and associating with fellow devotees, these feelings keep the devotee’s enthusiasm alive.