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The highest stage of humanity is the soul
Dear Editor,
With members of the IRO this week I was fortunate to visit with our President. I admire his optimism. In my own words this is what he said” I have gone beyond all that now…I (speaking about racial unity) I am concern with National Unity, integrating people on a national scale, concerned with bridging the gaps between those on the coast lands and the hinterlands” He was concerned with economic and social unity. He was concerned with total human integration. What a vision. Our President is an optimist. Hear what he said about suicide in the news” People who are happy do not commit suicide” The importance of this statement seems to have been lost on the populace and I wish to turn our attention to it once again. Why should happy people commit suicide? Unhappy people want to move on or move away from a place where the atmosphere is oppressive , uncomfortable and pessimistic.
I often remarked to my friends that when I was in primary school our population was 700,000 persons; today it is the same. Today I am sixty five years old. What happened during those years? No growth, people drift. Does this correspond with the reason for suicide? Is it a fact that the vulnerable minds of victims of suicide are unduly influenced by an uncomfortable, oppressive atmosphere that is accentuated by the daily doses of social, economic and political pessimisms and these are replayed even at the family level? What part do our personal and national histories play in the decadent thinking and conditioning of our minds? Are we stuck in a bitter past?
What is done is done. It cannot be undone. If our problem is our parental negligence in early childhood or colonial master policy of divide and rule, why should we allow bitterness and cynicism to dominate our minds to this day? It is a waste on mental energy. While past and future are necessary consideration for the purposes of planning we must be mindful of our thoughts and actions of today. A positive future would depend on positive thinking today. Our pessimisms would carry over to tomorrow, then we will be arguing about what we should have done today.
As our President said happy minds do not contemplate suicide. Here is a role for religion and spiritual organisations. They are the people that are concerned with the salvation of humanity. They are concerned with the third and highest aspect of humanity; that is our soul or spirit. At the mental and physical levels we are failing miserably. The psychiatrist and the medical/ social workers are doing their best but need help because they are working only at the levels of the body and mind. In the thinking of Albert Einstein one cannot correct a fault at the level at which it appears. We need to go higher to have a clearer perspective. It is time the faith based organisation awake and consider their role in shielding the vulnerable minds from the insufferable pessimisms that are choking it and damning the soul.
However, you look at it. whether voluntary suicide is contemplated by failure in relationships at home, school or workplaces or other causes the final straw that breaks the back is the hopelessness and despair due to lack of positive support. Religious and Spiritual messages are ones of hope. They are the ones out to save the soul from damnation. They spent much of their time counseling the members of their groups. It is time they reach out to the Community at large, work with other groups, form interfaith coalitions in all towns and villages, share facilities, train members as first responders for suicide prevention and give out this message “There is Hope” in form and substance to the hopeless who would otherwise continue to live on the far reaching daily and dangerous diet of negativity. Here is where the unity of religion is most needed.
Happy people do not commit suicide. It has been said by one saint “that if to be rich is a good quality then we should make others rich”. If rich means happiness to you, then, you should make others happy. There is hope my friends. Be optimistic.
Kenneth Daniels
Secretary, Science of Spirituality
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