22 Death Reasons for Suicide
Questioner: What is the cause behind a person’ s tendency to contemplate and complete a suicide?
Dadashri: The root cause of suicide is that in one of his past lives he had committed suicide, the effects of that act is carried forward through seven more lives. When you drop a ball from a height of about three feet, it will bounce back up and with each subsequent bounce, the height it bounces up is reduced and eventually the ball ceases to bounce. That is a natural process, a natural principle of motion. Similarly if a person commits suicide just once, then this act is perpetuated for seven more lives. The intensity of the effects carried forward is not visible but they decrease each time and eventually coming to an end.
In The Final Moments …
At the time of death, a balance sheet of the dying person’ s entire life’ s activities arises in front of him. As he reads this summary of his life in 45 minutes, his new body for next life is formed. In this duration, he may become a fodder eating animal or a bread eating human being. This is the great importance of Kaliyug and this effect of the current time cycle is such that it is extremely difficult to acquire a human form again!
Questioner: In the final moments of death, who knows when the ears stop receiving the holy messages uttered in the dying man’ s ears?
Dadashri: Many people will whisper in the dying person’ s ear and tell him to recite Lord Rama’ s name. The fools! Why do they ask him to recall Lord Rama when he is no longer around and is in a Siddha State, without a body?