Generally suicide is either attributed to extreme depression or poverty. We hear news of farmer suicides quite often. We also see rise in rich and popular people too taking the extreme step. The suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput sent shockwaves across the country. While farmer suicides have reason of not being able to cope with the economic losses, why do those with all the wealth take their own lives? Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev provides us some answers.
Sadhguru says that the most important thing to realize is that one is alive and nothing else. Suppose tomorrow one loses half the money and feels depressed and the mind says “I want to die”, try closing the mouth, and block the nose with the fingers for as long as one can hold the breath. The body will say “to hell with your money, I want to live!”
Body and life within wants to live and it is only in our minds that we are held up with such things that we should let go.
So, every time we have suicidal thoughts we should know that the body and the life inside want to live. It is important to realize that the most important thing in life is ‘now’, the present. All the fancy thoughts, the emotions that we go through, the money we earn, the people we meet, are all integral part of life and not life itself. Life means that which is throbbing within oneself, right now. Only because life is ON everything else seems to be meaningful, Sadhguru says.
Sadhguru says that in Yoga helps in handling depression at the level of the body, mind and the energies. If the necessary balance and vibrancy is brought about in the physical, mental and energy state, to be blissful becomes natural.
Yogic process like Pranayama helps an individual with balance both mentally and energy wise. People can use such Indian traditional tools to avoid taking extreme step as a reaction to what is temporary in one’s life.Yoga helps in not just attaining one-ness with the outside world but also helps us stay balanced within.