गहन आनन्द चिंतन – ०५९ Gahan Anand Chintan - 059

 

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF SWAMI GAHANANANDAJI
(From the letters provided by a monk, a disciple of Revered Swami Gahananandaji)

 

गहन आनन्द चिंतन – ०५९

 

Dear ................,

 

Your letter of 27 May reached here yesterday only. You have written about ending your life but this is not such an easy task – your past deeds (karma) will again and again brink you back in the same situation that you are in today, till the time you prepare yourself to face the situation – till then you will have to keep on taking births over and over again. You might be thinking that by committing suicide you will get relief but what actually will happen is the misery and pangs of this life will get added to the misery of life (that you would get) after committing suicide along with the miseries of that life! Therefore, suicide is never and for none is the solution for the problems (miseries) in life. Problems and miseries of life are like bad-dreams, they can be gotten rid of only when one gets the strong knowledge of emptiness of the world and when one does not expect anything from the world. At that time his “Inner Soul” helps him – he also, till the time he lives, getting inspired by the “Inner Soul”, lives only to serve the “Inner Soul”.  And when his will to die strengthens then just like that he will get some common fever and die in 2-4 days, for that he does not have to commit suicide.

 

What is it that you have done, that your admission got cancelled and you are not able to take back the papers without giving any money? Pray to Sri Ramakrishna, to your Inner Soul with yearning heart and weeping and He will show the way, till this does not happen have patience. Keep writing letters to me.

 

I always keep praying to the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Sri Ramakrishna for you.

 

Always your well-wisher,

 

Swami Gahanananda