ESSAYS

Suicide is often seen as self-hatred, but Vedanta reveals it as a distorted act of self-love — a longing to be free of pain. The Self, however, cannot die with the body, nor can suffering be ended through death. The Bhagavad Gita shows that despair can turn either toward destruction or toward inquiry. Vedanta urges us to see suffering not as a wall but as a doorway to knowledge, where the freedom we long for is discovered in the Self, untouched and whole.