"When Anguish goes around in circles, when it revolves within itself, only then it is suicidal and irreligious. It is very interesting that a person with suicidal temperament reaches a point where he has to to transform his very soul or he has to commit suicide. One thing becomes certain: the old way of being will no longer do. Because of this fact one could also say that suicide is religious - but that again would be a half-truth.
Anguish in itself is neither irreligious nor religious. If anguish closes the person up, then it becomes suicidal, but if it keeps the person flowing, then it will become self-transforming.
There are 2 alternatives facing the person who has reached the point of committing suicide. Either he kills himself, which will be absolutely irreligious, or he transforms himself - which is the profounder alchemy of killing oneself, and which will be religious.
Buddha and Mahavira both arrived at a point where they either committed suicide or they were transformed."
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