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seven minutes, he was back!
I asked him, "You had gone to commit suicide?"
He said, "Yes, I had gone to commit suicide, but the train comes only one time a day. It comes in the morning at eight o'clock, and to pass the whole night in the cold, lying down on the rails... it is too much. I will rest in the house, and I will see in the morning."
His wife said, "Look, do you think this man will ever be capable of committing suicide?"
And then it was every day, but by and by I became accustomed. One day he came back because it started raining. A man who has gone to commit suicide does not come back because it is raining! What does it matter when you are going to die? But any excuse... and his wife was absolutely certain that there was no need to be alarmed: "In Bengal, no Bengali commits suicide. They talk about it."
One day things came to such a great crisis that he told his wife, "You prepare my tiffin." I was listening -- they were fighting. Suddenly he said, "You prepare my tiffin. I'm going to commit suicide."
And I saw him going out with his umbrella and tiffin. I asked Battacharya, "Have you decided firmly this time?"
He said, "Absolutely! Just because the trains arrive late, I'm taking the tiffin with me. I'm not going to come back. Enough is enough."
But the train was very late. And the first thing he did -- because I followed him.... The station was not far away from the university, just half a mile. I followed behind him to see what he did. The first thing he did, sitting under a beautiful tree -- he ate his breakfast, and inquired when the train would come. It was six hours late, so he went back.
I met him on the way. I said, "What happened?"
He said, "It is too late. And in six hours, I will again feel hungry. So it is better to go home, and if I decide to commit suicide, I will have to bring the tiffin again."
But this may be a special characteristic of the Bengalis!
Generally, around the world, men commit suicide four times more than women, but more in countries which are countries of warriors. For example, in Japan, the ratio is ten times more. A Japanese can commit suicide
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