How to deal with depression

Monday, 26 March 2018

How to deal with depression

Economic Times in The Speaking Tree | Edit Page, India, Lifestyle | ET

By Sadhguru Jaggiva Sudev

Often, I feel low and suffer bouts of depression, and this affects my work and relationships. How should I overcome this?

Depression makes you cynical; it is deeply self-damaging. Usually, depressed people will not cause harm to others; they will only hurt themselves. A depressed person is always trying to cause damage to himself. It is a weapon, but his weapon is not going to be used to chop somebody up. He’ll chop himself and make you feel miserable; that’s the way of the depressed. Why will a person go on hurting himself? Generally it is to get sympathy. For a depressed person, normal sympathy is not sufficient; somebody should bleed with him.

If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good; make use of your sadness to grow. It is very easy, when you are sad, to become compassionate. It’s already a dissolving kind of energy; you can use it for further dissolution that leads you to your ultimate well-being. For most people, without knowing sadness, maturity will not happen. If you have known sadness and you have known pain also, only then you are a mature person. You’ll never know compassion unless you know pain. Learning to use all your emotions creatively is very important.

In yoga, depression is handled at the level of the body, mind and the energies. If the necessary balance and vibrancy is brought about in the physical, mental and energy bodies, to be blissful is very natural. In a blissful being, depression can never exist.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote From the True Charm and Power of Vedanta 

Folly of the musk deer

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By Janina Gomes

A spiritual quest is not, as many would like to believe, a tangible experience. It is, instead, an act of freedom, a state of inner tranquillity. Remember the legend of the musk deer. One day, the musk deer of the mountains sniffed a breath of musk perfume. He leapt from jungle to jungle in its pursuit. The poor animal no longer ate, drank or slept.

He did not know where the scent of the musk came from, but he was impelled to pursue it through ravines, forests and hills.

Finally, starving, harassed, exhausted and wandering about at random, he slipped from the top of the rock and fell mortally wounded. The musk deer’s last act before he died was to lick his breast. And his musk pouch, torn when he fell from the rock, poured out its perfume. He gasped and tried to breathe in the perfume, but it was too late. The perfume that the deer looked for externally, was, all the while, contained in itself. The deer allowed itself to get fooled into thinking that the truth was outside, and neglected to look within.

So don’t seek the perfume of God outside yourself and perish in the jungle of life. Search your soul and look within. God will be there. The pastor of a mountain village said to a seeker: you will never get to heaven with your self-important airs, your moralistic reasoning, your stuffy virtues, your spiritual bookkeeping and spiritual investments. But you can reach Heaven with the soul of a child.

We need to share love and the gift of faith. We must learn to distil life’s experiences through the spirit and not only through the intellect.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Going for an eternal high

 Economic Times in The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

Once there lived a great guru who taught Vedanta. When besieged by those devotees who sought worldly happiness or material remedies for their suffering, she raised her hand over each supplicant’s head and solemnly declared, “May you become materially destitute!” This “blessing” frightened all, and angered many. Yet, those few disciples who understood its deeper significance marvelled at her profound wisdom. In the Bhagwad Gita,

Krishna tells Arjuna that this world is a place of misery where everything is temporary and where no lasting external happiness can be found. It is a realm of experience where birth, death, old age, misfortune and unhappiness are guaranteed to all.

Each of us is engaged in two universal activities: either we are occupied in trying to increase our quantum of happiness or we are desperately struggling to somehow reduce our misery. Yet, Vedanta says that our very essence is bliss and the moment we try to increase it from an external source, our miseries begin.

The Upanishads and all Bhakti Shastras ask the devotee to rest in a natural devotional bliss that is causeless, rather than upon an artificial pleasure dependent on any specific source. Krishna advises Arjuna to remain a warrior without, but a sanyasi within to move in the world, always ready to act appropriately.

The spiritual seeker sees temporal worldly joys and happiness as a distraction from the quest for the true eternal bliss within. Contrarily, each affliction and sorrow is welcomed as a springboard for a leap into the spiritual world within.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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