Eleven years ago, our son committed suicide. This year our neighbor’s boy did the same. What happens to those who do this? I just don’t understand why he wanted to leave so badly.
We can only do so much when our dear ones shut out love and destroy themselves. Yet, take comfort: Soul is eternal.
You did all that was humanly possible to encourage him to anchor himself in this life. Please do not feel that you have failed him in any way. He knows you haven’t and does not want you to carry an unnecessary burden of grief over time.
For a while, these unfortunate Souls wander in one of the inner worlds, the Astral Plane, lost. Some must relive their act of self-harm again and again. Thereby they learn how precious life is.
Eventually, the wheel of karma turns, and they are reborn. Their new life may be harsh, but it is to teach them love.
Your son’s act of self-harm is of a temporary nature, for finally he, as Soul, will recognize his responsibility to life and serve it gladly without regrets. The Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ is working with him even now to help him adjust his spiritual viewpoint, so that he may become worthy of service to God.
—Sri Harold Klemp