The Difference Between Suicide and Realized Beings

When you are very rich and things go your way, then it's very difficult to give up. That's why the extraordinary story of the Buddha, who was a prince, and he gave up everything. Even if you have a spiritual urge, if you see the difficulties ahead of you, then you might think that, all right, let me be a multi-millionaire and an enlightened person both together. What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong. But you see the psychology which works there. It's only from the middle classes and lower middle class that most of our monastic strength is drawn.