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cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

committing suicide

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cvrajan Well said. Sri Ramakrishna, a great Hindu master used to say the same thing: "Oh God; I am the chariot; you are the charioteer".

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Even in an office, we can't take a decision in an area where the boss is supposed to decide. Hence, you are quite right that we can't take a decision on a matter only God has the right to do!

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Yes; I am a Hindu. Though I can't quote any specific Hindu scripture immediately that says committing suicide is a sin, I have read somewhere that Garudapuranam says that those who commit suicide end up in hell. Many religious masters do not approve of...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Yeah. Most of us would definitely love to have a peaceful death, not causing inconvenience to anybody. We can only pray that God takes account of whatever little good things we have done in life and grant us (at least) this wish, which is obviously not a...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan I agree with your views, fully!

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Right. It may prove to be a harder option!

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Hinduism strongly advocates that there is no shortcut to ending suffering because, life is not something that ends in this birth. We have our karma theory and we have to take birth again and again to enjoy or suffer the consequences of our good and bad deeds....

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan It is really God's grace that you got the right mental strength to come out of such emotional depression. As a believer in GOd, I would always think that instead of leaning on the strength of our own ego, it is better to cling to a higher force with a sense of...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Yeah. It is our religious faith that saves us from acting wrong in moments of emotional impulse.

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Oh! How terrible. I can understand the mental tension and agony that you would have undergone.

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan I agree with you in toto!

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan What you say about causing suffering to others on account of our suicide, I fully agree with you. But regarding enjoying life, yes, we all would LOVE TO ENJOY life in full with no suffering! But that's not the case mostly. Suffering comes along with joy as...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Let us say, we are all standing in a long queue to purchase a ticket or something. I get bored; I am going to reach the counter any way and get my ticket at some point of time much later. Then why keep standing in the queue? Can I skip the queue, barge into...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Yea! As we grow older and mature, we find many of our past thoughts and acts as unacceptable and immature! Your reason for "sin" is judicious. Most of us love ourselves better than anyone or anything else first! That way we are killing our dearest, and...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Who knows? The truly important things in God's scheme of things might come much later in life than your own judgment! And I believe, the "important things" in God's scheme of things may even include lots of more suffering, that one ought to undergo as a way...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan Wow! Sacrificing your life to save others! I do think God will consider it as a great selfless act and reward one rather than punish one for the great deed.

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan It is an interesting view point about your idea on the right time to "check out"! But, funnily, clinging to life is one of the greatest attachment of human mind. I have seen old people saying "I am just waiting for my day; there is nothing more left for me to...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 26 Aug 09

Most religious faith consider committing suicide as sin. Why? When we have the free will to live as we like, don't we have the same free will to end our lives? Do you subscribe to the view that committing suicide is a...

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cvrajan We believe in Hinduism that pain or pleasure that we enjoy/ suffer is a consequence of actions of our past life (including those don in our previous births. That has to be faced and endured. No one else can feel or compare the pain of one who suffers; what may...

27 Aug 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 11 Jul 09

This incidence took place some 25 years ago. It is somewhat tricky; it poses some moral questions about what is right and what is not right and the solution looks somewhat ambiguous to me. Read it and tell me what you would have...

friendship dilema

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cvrajan A different perception. I wonder why a sales transaction cannot take place between friends. If I were the teacher too, I would have taken the same line as you - not accepting the bicycle till the payment is physically made. But at that time, both of us (Myself...

11 Jul 09

cvrajan @cvrajan (354) • India 6 Jul 09

I am not a pet lover; I have no attraction for pets. It is not that I hate animals; but it is because I feel I need not share my home space with animals. I feel home is for human beings to live and love! I have no emotional need...

psychology behind loving pets

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cvrajan How about the other aspects related to pet fad?

7 Jul 09

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