Should I kill myself?

Question

No.

Answer 1

Swami Sukhabodhananda
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One youngster comes to me very depressed and asks this question "Why is God creating so many difficulties for us? How to handle stress?" I tell this youngster to reflect on this beautiful story:

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 2

No Had the same problem when I was younger as the rules of the church states all things are a sin...Did not want to commit a sin but to kill yourself if possible is a crime to God that he will not forgive...He can forgive you killing someone else as a harm to you say self defense...but to off yourself he created you with a purpose to help others and help yourself at the same time...and it is a pitty to be in Hell in torment repeating the killing over and over again and not dying. There is a movie where the Devil has a big party and people are dancing too much and drininking too much and the music wont stop and smoking too much and killing themselves too much doing something they enjoyed more than helping others and serving God...So you would not never get out of this limbo or a noted second chance to do good...Think of those around you who will miss you and if not get out there and do something to become a help to others...you will feel better...live life and find love...finding love helped me a lot when I really wanted out...I had to stay in for his sake...I could not let someone go and tell him his girlfriend killed herself.

Answer 3

Only if you're 100% sure you are sick of this life and that there is no hope what-so-ever,zero chances of healthy & sane survival. And if you're ready to take the step to find out the truth about the ultimate questions of life. Curiosity killed the cat. In my opinion, we're all dying someday, so why hurry in taking the plunge?

Answer 4

Unless, a person is alive in the moment, there is no need to really kill, the effect is same.

Answer 5

Bring Out The Gimp?

Answer 6

no killing yourself is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.Maybe tomorrow will be better,maybe tomorrow things will get a new turn and you'll feel better so don't kill yourself.

Answer 7

No, you shouldn't kill yourself!

Answer 8

if you are brave enough to kill yourself, you are brave enough to go through life & all its obstacles.
you answered the question yourself-- no.

Answer 9

Why!!
do you want to go through the whole process of birth again??

Answer 10

Yes, i agree.