The Real & Unreal Series : Question on 'Suicide' raised by Adi

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advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> Namashkar Prabhu-ji!

>

> you have mentioned THE ENGLISH WORD Suicide ?

>

> what is the equivalent of the word 'suicide' in Hindi?

>

> ATMA-HATYA !!!!

>

>>

> well, Prabhuji! Tellme who is deluded in the light of what i have

> described as the real meaning of Suicide?

>

>

 

Namaste:

 

The word "Atma-hanaH" occurs in the third verse of Ishopanishat:

 

asuryA nAma te lokAH andhena tamasA vRtAH/

tAmste pretyA-bhigacchanti ye ke cAtma-hano janAH //

 

This verse describes what happens to the two kinds of doers: rAjasa

kartA and tAmasa kartA. These are classified as murderers of the

soul, because they have not understood the real nature of the Atman.

Each object in the world whether it is animate or inanimate, or,

even the Atman itself, has a nature of its own. This is called its

svabhAva – own becoming. Our use of it has to be concordant with it.

Otherwise we are supposed to have killed it. Having an attachment to

things external to the Atman, like the body, senses and sense-

objects, is equivalent to the killing of the Atman (in a rhetorical

sense). Such killers of Atman are known by the name asuras. Though

the English language may translate asuras as `demons', The correct

meaning of `asura' is one who revels or takes pleasure in the vital

forces and the senses

 

asushhu ye ramante iti asurAH

 

The word `asu' means the vital force or the sense-organ.

On the other hand the word `sura' – usually translated as a divine

being, means one who revels in the real nature of one's Self:

 

svasvarUpe ramante iti surAH

 

So the killers of the Self, namely the two kinds of doers mentioned

above go to worlds of blind obscurity since they come in the way of

the right manifestation of the One in the Many and are enveloped in

total darkness. Thus the two classes of people, suras and asuras,

are not mythological inhabitants of another world – maybe they are –

but they are right here, among us. The former ones help in the

evolution to a higher status of life. The others are discordant

with the svadharma of the Self and so they only involute, after

death, to dark blind worlds, having lived their life in spiritual

darkness and blindness, totally unillumined. In other words

Concordance with Self is Dharma.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins.

profvk