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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 1, 24th April 2018

and the tendency to impulsive aggression Quite the contrary. The Mother explained
though no genetic pathway has been unravelled that one commits suicide as one is a coward
(serotonin-linked genes have been considered as (3). In fact the cowardice reaches a point
candidates but nothing specific has emerged). where the will-power is completely broken,
Ernest Hemingway’s family alone accounted facilitating an overwhelming collapse by negative
for five suicides in four generations! Obviously occult forces swarming in the cosmos and
there is a psychopathology involved and its which drives the subject to the dastardly act.
effects can be carried over several generations. The occult connection does not end with
It is not surprising to discover suicide and the completion of the act; it continues to
suicidal attempts down the line across several exert its influence as after-effects, affecting
generations, especially among first-degree unsuspecting subjects.The negative occult
relatives, but there are also other forms of vibrations that get a passage through this
psychopathology that can be triggered off. act now find a playing field in the arena
where the act was committed. If it had been
b. Though all suicides are not due to psychiatric committed in a house or a hostel, the overall
causes (there are significant social causes as harmony gets breached while vulnerable
well) there is a psychological insecurity, subjects, family members or boarders,
irrespective of any cause that can affect inhabitants of such space, often get caught
members of the family, and such an event can up in the occult contagion to unnecessarily
haunt a subject throughout his or her lifetime suffer from misery and misfortune which are
and may even resurge as post-traumatic usually and unknowingly attributed to ‘ill-
stress much later in life. luck’. If the dastardly act had been committed
in public places, gardens,on roads or railway-
c. It is not only the family of the suicide tracks or in water-bodies, then also at times
victim that is affected, neighbours and close there can exist negative formations in such
friends are also affected and some of them spaces affecting vulnerable subjects.
can really become depressed. Once when in
an overcrowded Outpatient’s clinic, where Sin and suicide
I had less time for clients and hence had to
act intuitively, I asked a depressed youngster The religious and moral injunctions against
if there was a suicide close to his home; suicide as a grave misdeed, albeit a sin, seem
he instantly replied that a neighbour had justified. If it is at all a sin, it is a sin of epic
committed suicide just outside his window a proportions with social and cosmic dimensions.
few weeks back triggering off his depression. In the classical Indian tradition, suicide
I realised that it was not enough to note down generates negative karmic ramifications that
the history of suicides in the family but also persist in a vital plane of consciousness to
in one’s social circle. work out effects in future lives, thus offering
no escape to the individual self. The Old
d. Finally, the more important significance of Testament was somewhat casual about suicide
suicide that surpasses the clinician’s arena is and did not convey any condemnation. In
the occult perspective of the act. It is a misnomer fact, Christian churches started strongly
to think that the act of suicide needs courage. condemning suicide since Augustine, as part

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