Posted by pinkeye on April 7, 2005, at 19:09:02
In reply to Re: talking about it » mair, posted by daisym on April 7, 2005, at 18:51:41
Not really sure if this helps, but in the religions that I believe in, self annihilation is totally prohibited.
We believe in reincarnation, and the separatedness of soul and body. The soul undergoes many births and takes different bodies. And in each life, all the sins + goodthings accumulate to a cumulative total, and this total leads us to the next birth according the sum. So according to my religion, if we suffer a little bit in this birht, it is because we have done something wrong in the previous birth, and it something we have to undergo through no matter what - kind of like you have taken a loan and you need to repay it. Prayers to God and doing more good things to others eliminates/reduces the sin and reduces the suffering that you have to go through to repay the loan. Nothing else helps. Commiting suicide is considered even more sinful, since you take a life which God has given, and you will incur severe penalties for that.
According to our beliefs, if you take away your life, then for the rest of the period which you would have lived naturally, your soul will be wandering without a body, but it will have all the needs of the body, but no body to fulfill the desires. The soul will feel thirsty, hungry, tired, and lusty, and needing comfort, but since it deprived itself of its own body, it will have to remain hungry, tired, lusty, and no way to fulfill all these needs till the time when the person would have naturally died. And you incur these penalties by taking another birth and suffering more.
Not sure if it is a right thing to post here, but it is preached to all of us - hindus - so if you believe it could be possible, then it is a really bad thing to do for yourself. We feel it is better to live with whatever life we got for now and reduce our sins by prayers/good deeds.
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