Suicide commonly heard of.....
Samadhi referred as an ancient act of highly enlightened people....
A question arising out of my thinking process, why was samadhi considered highly respectable where as suicide highly condemned....???
Where as both acts bring about an end to life.....
The little knowledge that I have so far gave me an understanding of the two acts and their acceptability or otherwise as,
Suicide is an act which emerges out of a highly dissatisfied soul, someone who is not able to cope up with rejections and dejection that life events put them into.. These people are under the influence of self hatred and hatred towards the life creation and are in an urge to put an end to it all thus they take up the drastic step of exiting from life to teach people around a lesson of life....
Therefore, SUICIDE IS AN ACT OF ESCAPISM AND ABSOLUTE WEAKNESS OF MIND that arises out of acute depression.....
The ironical part here is that one who does not understand Life is set to teach others a lesson of life by ending their own.....
On the other hand Samadhi, which too was bringing about an end to life by many saints and holy men was meant as RETURN TO THE ORIGIN... return to origin essentially meant that merging with the nature or where we belong.... The most important and prominent difference here is that these souls decide to adopt samadhi as they have achieved supreme level of satisfaction from life.... SAMADHI IS TAKEN UP BY THOSE WHO HAVE REACHED THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SATISFACTION AND ARE FULLY CONTENT.....
These people who have been said to taken samadhi as a means to exit from life have initially while alive reached a mental state of samadhi and thereby felt it was no point in physical life....
A different perspective to it can be once an individual has reached a point of absolute stillness would not wish to carry on with any act to survive physically so as to get them away from the state of stillness....
As a mental health professional, I have some conflicting views on Samadhi in current situation ;as Mind is the most complexed thing which has very little clarity about most of the universal facts and is a victim of almost all physical agonies .... Therefore under the superficial feeling where a depressed mind would claim to have fulfilled life duties and thus enter samadhi is a little hard to believe...
Meditation and the eighth stage of yoga which takes the mind to the absolute balanced state is indeed an art to practice.... A state of stillness where the body is only performing its routine acts where mind is totally unaffected is what is the state of samadhi one should strive to achieve.... This stage is the highest level of spiritual intelligence which can tune an individual to not get disgusted of physical life and neither get involved in any physical pleasure.... Infact, it is a state of happiness that is felt under any given condition.....
Having said that keeping up with life could very much also result in physical ailments that can result in acute pain and bodily suffering and if an individual can maintain mental stillness then, it is in true sense an achiever of Samadhi at spiritual level... As atma samarpan should not involve bodily negligence as it wasn't an individual choice to take birth so should death not be a given choice either???
This life is a learning experience of soul at all levels which also includes stages of suffering towards the death....
If life has nothing to contribute towards society then perhaps it has something to teach the soul within and thus is the unique life given to each of us in our own personalized gift wraps which we find surprisingly good and bad at different times ....
Take care....
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