If you commit suicide will you go to Heaven or Hell

Whenever the teachings of a religion is so wrong, that disobedience to its teachings is in fact doing what was right, like saving life, for example, then we may know that God did not set up that religion, but that it is the product of sinful man. In the Bible we are told about God: "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity…" Hab. 1:13. This shows us that YHWH the one and only true God is so holy that He had nothing to do with corruption, but not so, with the Hindu gods. Let us now imagine a strange situation. A businessman comes home one evening, he is a Hindu, so are all his children. His son and wife are at his brother's wife, he had left his twenty-three year old daughter home alone. It is now 4:00 pm, he knocks on the front door and calls to his daughter but he receives no answer. He turns the doorknob and finds that the door is unlocked. He goes inside and calls out his daughter's name, but the house seems to be empty and she does not return an answer. However, going towards the kitchen he sees the backdoor opened and assuming that his daughter is in the backyard of the house he says: "Sumita, you left the front door open, don't you know that that is very dangerous?" But again, no reply comes from outside. Going outside now in the backyard he smells a strange scent like roasted flesh, and as he turns to the right, a horrible sight greets him. There are the charred remains of his daughter sitting on a pile of charred wood, burnt to death. He instantly screams and begins to cry; as he approaches the body, he notices a Tulasidasa's Ramayana open on the ground close to the pile, and looking on the opened pages he find an underlined sentence where the goddess Sita threatens to burn herself in fire as a sacrifice. Now it suddenly dawned upon the distraught father, his daughter had taken the Ramayana seriously and practiced suicide that she may go to another life. The father lamented his woe now that he had given his Hindu child that new Ramayana he had bought three weeks ago at the Maha Sabha headquarters. Yes my dear people, though you have just read a story, the point illustrated is that not only does Valmiki's Ramayana encourage suicide, but so also does Tulasidasa's version, and it is a mistake for the Maha Sabha to even think that every schoolchild should have a copy of that scripture. In the Hindu scriptures, God as Rama and Brahma, even Sita all condone suicide, it is presented as a type of human sacrifice. Let us read it in the Ramayana: "O Lakshmana," the Lord Rama then said, "abandon all stubbornness and misgiving, and listen: whatever the world may say, good or evil, if you obey not my command but counter it with all manner of replies, I will put and end to my life. You will then be ashamed of yourself and become a prey to endless grief." Tulasidasa Ramayana, p. 675. Here one of the Hindu chief gods threatens to commit suicide to motivate his brother to obey his words. This is not the behaviour of God, it is the behaviour of sinful man, but if a Hindu god could do it, why then cannot his follower? Here is another more horrible account. "When Lakshmana left Sita in the forest and returned to Ayodhya, he was terribly upset, he went into the palace and cried piteously before his mother, lamenting over the severity of punishment inflicted upon Sita. Upon hearing it, the mother was so disquieted at heart that she fell unconscious …Rama was beside himself with grief when he saw his mothers so distraught and wailing. How can one describe the weeping and lamentation that the queens made? They all grieved about the terrible misfortunes which had befallen them. Hearing this outcry, Rama accompanied by Bharata went to the palaces and comforted the queen-mothers with many a discourse imbued with spiritual wisdom, as a result of which their hearts were relieved of gloom and delusion, and they said "By looking upon you, Lord, as our ordinary human son, we had yielded to error and lay caught in the toils of delusion. Now be pleased, O Lord of the world, to grant us that devotion to yourself which is so delectable, unwavering and supremely holy and which the sages and penitents and ascetics assiduously seek." Whatever boons the queen-mothers named the all-gracious Rama granted. Then, with their minds thoroughly cleansed with them and with profound reverence, the queen-mothers consumed their bodies in the sacrificial fire. Having consumed their bodies in the sacrificial fire they all went to the world of their husband." Ibid, pp. 677-678. There are many implications in this account. Here Rama who is god did not stop the queen-mothers from committing suicide, in fact he granted them blessings that cleansed their minds, and in practicing human sacrifice by burning, they killed themselves. This means that human sacrifice as suicide is okay to god, thus he did not stop it. Here we see that Tulasidasa's Ramayana does indeed encourage suicide, because the queen-mothers went to a world to meet their husbands. Now who is to stop a Hindu from copying this evil act when he is in great distress? Even though this type of sacrifice was practiced at that time, here the Hindu scriptures and gods encourage it. Now here is Sita, Rama's wife and a goddess threatening to do the same thing. "Then exhorting them, Sita said, "set Hanuman and Jambaran free forthwith, my sons, you have brought disgrace to your house by striking Shatrughna, Lakshmana, Bharata and Rama unconscious on the battlefield. Providence has inflicted widowhood on me, so now abandon all grief and build the funeral pyre of sandalwood and incense so that I may immolate myself with my husband." Ibid. p. 704. But then Sita was discouraged from doing this deed by the sage Valmiki. Now this was not a test, this goddess was going to kill herself, something completely unlike the behaviour of the true God. The Ramayana quoted from was translated by a Hindu professor in India, the book was printed in India and is sold in puja stores throughout this country, so that Hindus cannot say other wise in an attempt to fool people rather than admit that the Hindu religion is wrong as it justifies ungodly things. But here now is another Hindu chief god doing it also: "On seeing this first-born creation consisting of goblins, ghosts, and demons, the unborn deity Lord Brahma, abandoned his life." The Linga Purana, Pt. 1, 41:41,42,p. 167. Then in another Purana we have this: "In utter frustration, Brahma began to cry. The ghosts (bhuta and preta) were born from these tears. Brahma was so disquieted at having created these awful creatures, that he committed suicide." Kurma Purana, p. 28-29. Of this Purana we are told: "The Kurma Purana is most sacred. A person who reads it attains Brahmaloka. A person who reads only one chapter of the text is forgiven all his sins." Ibid. p. 95. Could you also imagine that the Hindu scriptures teach suicide as a means of atoning for one's sins. The worst sin of all is to kill a bramana. A sinner who does this should make a hut of dry grass and leaves and live in it for twelve years. Or he may fast himself to death or commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. Immolating oneself or drowning oneself are also acceptable forms of penance … A woman who burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre makes atonement for all the sins that her husband may have committed." Garuda Purana, p. 33 Certainly we can now clearly see that the Hindu scriptures encourages suicide. But what would all this mean? That the Hindu religion, if followed seriously according to its teachings would cause much chaos and corruption, thus the religion is false. Therefore one must: "Come out of her, my people, that you be not partaker of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4. Amen.