Bhagavan on Suicide
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On another occasion I (Chadwick) asked Bhagavan about suicide. I had been cycling round the hill and on meeting a bus the thought had come into my head : "Why should I not concentrate on the Self and throw myself in front of the bus, so that in this way I may attain Moksha (liberation)!"
I told this to Bhagavan, but HE said that it would not work. Thoughts would spring up involuntarily as I fell, fear and shock would cause them, and thoughts coming, life would continue so that I would have to take another body. If I could still my mind sufficiently so that such a thing would not happen, then what was the need of suicide?

- A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharishi, Page 87