Autorenarchiv: Yoga Meditation

When death is predestined and also is nothing but a pause to change the clothes, why is it, then, a sin to commit suicide and also to kill living beings for a certain cause?

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Suicide as well as killing of other beings are both considered to be great sins, as they
block the course of evolution of the Jiva. Moreover, putting an end to the present gross body by
force does not help one to put an end to his sufferings. Sufferings and pleasures due to him by
virtue of his past actions won’t leave him until and unless they are enjoyed by him completely.
On the contrary, by suicide one is inviting more miseries, for it may take some time for
him to get another gross body in… http://bit.ly/baXDfz

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Should the means to achieve good ends be always good? Medicine tastes bitter, but cures diseases. Arjuna fought against the Kauravas to achieve good ends.

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Indian thought has no hesitation in answering this question in the affirmative. Except the
rank materialists, the Charvakas, the founders of all other systems of Indian thought boldly
declare that “one should not adopt a foul means to achieve a desired end, however covetable that
end may be”. There should not be any doubt regarding this point.
I don’t think that your two examples are strong enough to prove that the end justifies the
means. For, the medicine, whether it be sweet or bitter, in so… http://bit.ly/dubhFD

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