Suicide or sanyas

Suicide is a problem of the whole world. We become more shocked when we come to know about celebrities committing suicide. In India, so many ordinary people are committing suicide every day — even the young students and young girls, besides farmers. We are told that the main cause of suicide is depression and the inability to deal with it. People are feeling certain kind of loneliness even though they live with the family, friends and society. But they don’t feel at home anywhere, they feel alienated. We wonder what has happened. Even though there is so much comfort available to a large number of people, so much amusement and so much entertainment, even then the people become depressed and commit suicide. Almost everybody in the world has strong emotional moments when he or she feels the utter meaninglessness of life. In earlier times, during such moments some people used to think of renouncing the world and become sannyasis. Even a periodical sanyas of three months or just 21 days can make the person rejuvenated. As a sanyasin, one has to learn the art of meditating and creating distance from the mind that is suicidal. Osho says: I will teach you the right way to commit suicide. Not the destruction of the body; the body is a beautiful gift from God; the mind is a conditioning by the society. The soul is a gift, the body is a gift, and sandwiched between the two, the society has played tricks with you: it has created your mind. It it gives you all kinds of ugly diseases. But this mind can be transcended, this mind can be put aside.

This sanyas is life-affirmative: Being in the world and rejoicing in oneself.