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Full video: Nothing anyway matters. So why should I not commit suicide? || Acharya Prashant (2023)
Link: https://youtu.be/uExd_3pR1To?si=VV7d4xRoYERleEey
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Your problem is not life. Your problem is your notions about life.

Why not just die by su*cide? Wisdom gives a surprising answer, su*cide closes off “the tremendous possibility” of joy , a joy “so immense that it makes all the torment worth it.” The takeaway: “don’t drop life, drop the notions.”
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Video Information: 26.08.2023, Sant Sarita, Goa

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00:00Heartbreaking news as a famous actor has passed away at age 34 from apparent suicide.
00:08Over the last century that's been one of the more important questions. Why to live at all?
00:13Why not commit s**t? They don't like when we use the word commit anymore. So they say,
00:18why not die by s**t? So why not die by s**t? And wisdom has the answer. Because if you choose
00:25to
00:25s**t, you are giving up on something much higher. You are closing the possibility. What is the
00:32possibility of living joyfully as the dead one? Who is the Jeevan Mukta? Who is the dead one? And in
00:42death there is great joy. So when you choose s**t, you are closing on yourself the tremendous
00:48possibility of that joy. That joy is so immense that it makes all the torment worth it. Know that
00:59your problem is not life. Had your problem been life, s**t might have been helpful. Your problem
01:07is your notions about life. Don't drop life, drop the notions.

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