A suicide is a sad event because it prevents us from realizing our possibility and potential — there was an opportunity to live, learn, grow, realize, and be liberated, but it was wasted. But how many of us actually manage to realize our potential even if we live to 80 years? Hardly anybody. For our species, the extent of aliveness is proportional to the freedom and height of our consciousness. So ask yourself honestly: How close am I to the best I could have been?
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Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji. I am a doctor by profession, gynecologist. I work in a rural health sector. My question is about sufferings in the lives of the people and about suicidal tendencies as today is the World's Suicide Prevention Day.
There are many patients I see, they are suffering like anything. They are very poor and illiterate. And even the disabled people come full of tears in their eyes and telling, “It's because of our last janma’s (previous births’s) curse and I have become disabled like that.”
And every alternative day, I see there are cases of the suicides. Two of the people, I have myself done the postmortem of that. The age was around 24 and 26. In 2021, there were about 164,000 suicides in India, and around 800,000 suicides worldwide.
Sometimes by seeing all these sufferings, even I feel like ending my life. Where is the root of this problem? For me it is a challenge to be peaceful by seeing all these things and work at that place and top of that I want to fight my own suicidal tendencies.
