O Partha, religion is very subtle and awfully unintelligible, the more so to the ignorant. Hear me tell you of it. Suicide is tantamount to fratricide and in either case condemnation to the same hell would have been inevitable.
सूक्ष्मो धर्मो दुर्विदश्चापि पार्थ विशेषतोऽज्ञैः प्रोच्यमानं निबोध। हत्वाऽऽत्मानमात्मना प्राप्नुयास्त्वं वधाद् भ्रातुर्नरकं चातिघोरम्॥