 Banish depression
 We need to understand what depression is. Now, what is a “low”? What is it that happens within you? Fundamentally, you expected something to happen and it did not happen. You expected somebody or something to be your way or the world or the destiny to be your way, and it did not happen. In other words, you are simply against what’s happening; that’s all. Maybe you are against a person; maybe you are against a whole situation; maybe you are against life itself. Accordingly, the depression will run deeper and deeper.
Why are you against something? Only because things didn’t go your way, isn’t it? Why should the whole world go your way? Please know, the world doesn’t go your stupid way. Either you have no faith in the creator or you have no acceptance, or both, and you have a hyper-sensitive ego; that’s why you get depressed.
Depression makes you cynical and is deeply self-damaging. Usually depressed people will not murder anybody; they will only hurt themselves more and more. Killing need not necessarily mean physical killing. A depressed person is always trying to cause more and more damage to himself. It is a weapon, but his weapon is not like going out and chopping somebody. He’ll chop himself and make you feel miserable; that’s the way of the depressed.
This man who goes out with the sword and chops off somebody - his ego is not as sensitive and it doesn’t need as much nurturing as this depressed man’s ego. The violent man can be very easily settled. Have you seen this on the streets, when people get into a fight, if there is one man with a little wisdom, if somebody just handles them right, those people who are trying to kill each other this moment, next moment, they will drop it and become friends and go off? But this is not so with the depressed person; he will carry this for life. Whether they do it consciously or not, these people go on sharpening their knife and cutting their own heart. Why will a person go on hurting himself? Generally, it is to get sympathy. For a very depressed person, normal sympathy is not sufficient; somebody should bleed with him.
Why is it hurting? It just doesn’t support your ego that is all. What is there in you which can get hurt? If I beat your body with a stick, the body will get hurt; that’s different. Otherwise, what is it that gets hurt within you? Just the ego, isn’t it? See, the mind can’t get hurt. Your inner nature can never get hurt. It is only the ego that gets hurt. So if you are saying, “I want to grow,” growth means going beyond this, trampling your ego and going ahead.
Now, one can make any emotion into a creative force in their life. It is not a negative force. There is no negativity in the Existence. We think, this is negative, this is positive. The negative is also an equally important and constructive dimension. Now there are two wires, negative and positive, which makes this light burn, makes this microphone work. Negative is not something to be gotten rid of; it is as important as the positive.
If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good; make use of your sadness to grow. But, when you get sad, if you are going to get irritable, you are going to get angry, if you think that the whole world is wrong, you are a fool. Are you are making this sadness into anger or are you are making this sadness into love and compassion? 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 which leads you to your ultimate well-being.
The unfortunate reality with people right now is that their humanity will function only when they are mauled by life. 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. Otherwise you’ll never understand what’s happening with you nor will you understand what’s happening to anybody else around you. You’ll never know compassion unless you know pain. Learning to use all your emotions creatively is very important. It’s not just happiness, which is important.
In yoga depression is handled at the level of the body, mind and the energies. If the necessary balance and vibrance is brought about in the physical, mental and energy bodies, to be blissful is very natural. In a blissful being depression can never exist.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Isha Yoga Centre
New No.55, Moosa Street
T Nagar
Chennai - 600 017
Ph: 91-44- 24333185, 24348732
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 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a realised master, Yogi and a profound mystic of our times. Sadhguru developed Isha Yoga - Yoga of the Divine, a scientifically structured programme, as the vehicle to transmit a deep experience of the
Self that changed his life completely about two decades ago.
Belonging to no particular tradition, Sadhguru incorporates what is most valid for the modern seeker. Isha Yoga flourishes today as a spiritual science for hundreds of thousands of initiates around the world.
An accomplished poet and an author of several books, his latest book -
Mystic's
Musings - is one of the most candid unveiling of the mystical dimensions of life.
Isha Foundation, founded by the Sadhguru, also administers the Dhyanalinga multi-religious temple and meditation shrine, an ashram, and a yogic hospital at the Isha Yoga Centre, located on 50 acres at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, 30 km from
Coimbatore.
For More details, contact:
Isha Yoga Center,
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (PO)
Coimbatore - 641 114, India
Phone: 91-422-2615345
Email: yogacentre@ishafoundation.org
Website: www.ishafoundation.org
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