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Committing suicide?
Srila Prabhupada: “Otherwise, why millionaires are committing suicide? He has got money. But they do not know that any amount of material comforts will not make them happy. That is not possible. So we have repeatedly discussed this fact, like India, it is advertised as very poor country. But still, majority of the people in India, they are happy. People do not know. Although materially they haven’t got possession… They have got only two cloth or even one cloth. In the village you will find, they are so poverty-stricken. But still, they are following the Vedic principles, taking bath early in the morning, going to their business, whatever they get, eating, husband, wife, children. They are happy. People say “Primitive.” But you want, after all, happiness. Primitive or advanced, what is that? In advanced civilization, if you commit suicide, why not primitive? So they do not know. They do not know what is actual happiness. Therefore the struggle is going on. They do not know. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnm [SB 7.5.31].
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.23
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, September 28, 1972
Prabhupada: Suicide is killing the body. Suicide means that you were given some body to suffer or enjoy for a certain time according to your last fruitive activities. Now, if you commit suicide, that is just like a prisoner is condemned to live in the prisonhouse for six months, but some way or other, if he gets out of the prison, when he is again caught, then he is punished to remain there for one year more. Suicide is like that. You are having a particular type of body that is given to you for enjoyment or suffering according to your last work. If you finish it untimely, then you have to accept such body again, and the duration will be extended.
Lecture at International Student Society
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Boston, May 3, 1969