Should relatives communicate via planchette with someone who has committed suicide?

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Hare Krishna Question If a person has in a family passed away because of suicide then should the relatives try to contact that person through means like planchette and resolve the emotional issues communicate and understand what happened why it happened and then move forward thereby? Answer it depends entirely on the family, but two important principles are that the what has happened in the past can’t be changed and second is that planchettes are not always reliable or verifiable, so let’s look at the second point first so Joel Whitten has written a book called Life Comes From Life sorry Life Between Life where he talks about Joel Whitten is an American researcher and he talks about how he and his colleague got some paranormal communications through planchettes and various means and eventually found that those planchettes that the communications were not by the beings who they purported to be so of course he has written several other books also this is one of the things mentioned in one of these books the point is that in general is there possibility of communicating with the deceased through planchettes, yes there is a possibility but there is no certainty and the whole idea that certain beings can be invoked from certain places by certain rituals or by certain practices now in the western context what is called as planchettes in the Indian context in a somewhat similar way there is black magic, of course generally black magic is used for doing auspicious things but the principles which are involved in that are similar that there are subtle ways in which communication can be established with beings who have already departed from here but there is no reliability of the communication so it may well be that the medium claims to be communicating with a particular person and that person may not be there it may be someone else impersonating as that person for whatever reason or it could be that the medium is is themselves doing less than honest activity so therefore this whole arena is something which is not very reliable now more reliable and more important is to recognize that nature has a particular course of itself so we are brought together in the world because by our past karma and we live as relatives, family members friends, acquaintances together for certain time and eventually we move on so when we are together nature has provided us means for communication and when we move away from each other by death or whatever then we don’t have normal means of communication so trying to establish paranormal means of communication is therefore not in the way of nature at large now of course when terrible situations like say a suicide by a family member happens then naturally there will be a lot of unresolved emotional tensions for which the people may want emotional closures and for that they may well want to do something like communicating through planches but we know that emotional closure doesn’t come just by discussion it ultimately comes by purification so by no end even if we talk with a particular person and even if we assume that person actually comes still the event the clock cannot be turned back the event cannot be reversed and that person is gone from us so we cannot really benefit that person also but if we connect ourselves with Krishna if we practice bhakti yoga then our emotions become elevated and purified the distress, the agony that is there that can get relieved just as when the sun rises the fog dissipates so often grief forms a fog grief and shock forms a fog in our consciousness which we are not able to see anything at all but if we chant if we pray, if we do bhajans and this can understand the philosophy in a compassionate way from sensitive mentors and guides that can dissipate the fog in our consciousness and we can start seeing things clearly and our spiritual connection when we pray to Krishna Krishna is with us Krishna is our well-wisher and Krishna is the well-wisher of the deceased also so Krishna can pass on the benefits of our prayers and spiritual activities to that person and that way we can benefit that person by our devotional activities now in some situations the emotional fog may be so dense that one may feel that I just can’t do anything else unless this issue is resolved so devotees don’t have to necessarily completely oppose or forbid things like planchettes but generally they need not be encouraged and one can tell that that is not a reliable or a desirable way of resolving the issues but if somebody wants to do it, it’s not that devotees have to come in between and forbid it but the important thing is that we encourage the grieving to connect with Krishna and that is a more reliable and desirable way of not only just gaining relief from the overwhelming grief-centered emotions but also benefiting the person who has been deceased, who has gone away now so one of his Suhotra Maharaj, he wrote a book he wrote an article in Back to World called Extra Sensory Deception and there he talks about how there are many paranormal contacts which turn out to be not who they are pretending to be, that article is there in VTG and that can also be read to understand some of the complexities in these forms of communication but important point is that either way, whether the person does planchette or doesn’t do planchette, the most important thing is that person is encouraged to practice bhakti and connect with Krishna and that will resolve emotional issues in the best possible way and that will offer also the best help that can be offered to the person who is passed away. Thank you.