Spirituality Can Prevent Suicide
This is according to Masoud Janbozorgi, a faculty member of the Seminary and University Research Center who recently spoke about ways to prevent suicide. Excerpts from his remarks are as follows:
Our research shows that there are two issues that cause to increase the desire in one to commit suicide by 90 percent. Both of them are the result of lack of spirituality.
Every person has a strong psychological layer and when it is broken, his definition of his self is destroyed and his attachments become meaningless.
However, if one’s heart is filled with faith and love, this layer will not be broken.
But what kind of love can render it unbreakable? It is only he love of God which cannot be replaced with anything else, be it material or spiritual.
Hoping in God and recognizing that He has not created mankind in vain, will never leave him alone and would always a new door to him when another door or path has been closed will give meaning to one’s life and the possibility of suicide comes down to zero.
When one’s attachment turns from people to God, it gets full meaning and one considers himself not to be in need of interests that may end up nowhere.
It should be noted that a religious conduct does not necessarily produce spirituality because there are countless unreal gods in our mind and they should be destroyed before we recognize the true God and only then would spirituality materialize.
