प्रश्न Question 28

सांख्य  और न्याय /sAnkhya and nyAya.

Question  : Why one contemplates / tries to commit suicide? 

Answer : This question is an example of, how there could be no answer to any invalid question.

Still I would like to answer, point out to, and try to remove the error.

The Greek Philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Pythogorus laid down the basis and the tradition of modern philosophy.

Plato was inspired by the न्याय दर्शन / the  nyAya approach of the वैदिक / vaidika  Vision / Tradition, which is mistaken as "Philosophy", though really it is दर्शन / darshana / अपरोक्षानुभूति / the Direct and the Immediate Revelation / Vision, and is never "thought" / knowledge  or the "memory". Again, विचार / Thought in the Indian parlance is better defined as वृत्ति / vritti, synonymous with मन / mind, बुद्धि / intellect, चित्त / conceit and अहंकार / the ego, and as such is a deviation, drifting away, misapprehension, distorted or erroneous perception of सत्य / Truth / ब्रह्मन्  / Reality / आत्मन्  / The Self.

Ultimately The Philosophy concluded in and what was evident from and based upon how the greatest mathematician कुर्ट गोऽडेल / Kurt Godel interpreted and  inferred in through his In-completeness theorem. Summarily it states :

Any self-referential  assertion is always inconclusive, imperfect and incomplete.

Though implications of Kurt Godel's observations were within the realm of the physical science only, could be well applied in understanding the न्याय (दर्शन)  / nyAya-darshana approach of षड्-दर्शन / the six standards of the वैदिक / vaidika  approach quite effectively.

So Now let us deal with the question of : "suicide" . 

You asked :

Why one contemplates / tries to commit suicide?

Who exactly is this "one", referred to in this question? Notably not the body, but something like the consciousness of the body or the mind that takes the body as 'oneself' and thinks of killing this body, that is mistakenly supposed / meant to be the "suicide" in the general sense. The body can't think or contemplate of killing itself.

Neither the consciousness, wherein the  thought of killing 'oneself' arises could possibly kill itself. That is really absurd and meaningless too. So there is indeed no one who could think of committing or contemplating about killing oneself. 

The सांख्य दर्शन / Sankhya approach points out that there is only the unique चेतन / the conscious aspect of Reality and that is the very अधिष्ठान / the support wherin the myriad, many विषय / objects keep on repeatedly appearing and disappearing. This "conscious" is the "पुरुष / puruSha".

The another approach of "योग / yoga or the कर्मयोग deals with in detail with the reference to the कर्ता / karta - the agent, - the one who is supposed to perform the कर्म / the action.

Once this is accepted true, the one, -the agent of action, who is supposed to be and performs the कर्म / the action, is said to be the  कर्ता / karta.

According to Gita this supposed कर्ता / karta, because of, owing to the त्रिगुणात्मक प्रकृति / three attributes of prakrati, could be again of the three kinds :

सात्विक / sAtwika, राजस् / rAjasa and तामस् / tAmasa.

These three attributes of Prakriti are verily the kinds, -the mind of a person is made of, which cause him to act in a particular way.

Accordingly, The सात्विक / sAtwika mind thinks in terms of "I do, I have to do, I should do, I shouldn't do", still ridden with doubt, ambiguity and uncertainty. Nevertheless, the idea, the ignorance and the sense "I can do / I can do" etc. prevails in such a mind.

The  राजस्  / rAjasa mind is motivated by hope, desire, worry, and anxiety.

The तामस / tAmasa mind like an animal, driven by fit, acts accordingly without thinking of the action and the result /  consequences any.

These three kinds of the mind lead one to think of, and toncontemplate about committing what is called the "suicide".

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