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company, in which your ego can be diluted, because of the company of maitri or friendship.
All our swabhimanamu is super finest attachment to the lower mind. Abhimanamu is out of question in the case of the upper, higher mind. So any person who considers that it is a matter of self respect and all that, the “self” here is small “s”. When the small “s” becomes big “S”, the universal self, then there is no question of the self respect because what is self respect? It is your ways of behavior, your attitude to things, your opinions about certain subjects, makes you firmly grasp them all the time, thinking that they are mine. You own those things and then when you are not prepared to compromise on that and if you have got to compromise on that, you think that you are committing a suicide.
Majority of people who commit suicide are people who are suffering from that. No person dies because of physical need, nobody commits suicide because of physical need. It is a rare case, very rare case. Physical need, he will also commit suicide, mainly because socially he will be ostracized. Society will consider him good for nothing fellow, not capable of feeding his
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