Spiritual thought for Depression
(Following passage is taken from Swami Saurabhnath's book - Soham Yoga: A Simple Daily Practice Leading Towards The Peace And Happiness
Alright, until now we have defined depression and saw causes of depression. But what does spiritual thought say about the depression and its causes? If God has created this world then why has he created it with so many difficulties for His children? When we look at the world then one may feel that the world is a brutal joke played by a cruel God. What was the need for Him to create such world full of inequality, misery, despair, adultery, diseases, wealth and health problems, cheating etc?
However, this is not the case, God has not created this world to torture us, in fact it is God who is tortured by all these troubles which we face because we are small fractions of God, God Himself has disguised as various souls who experience this world. Then again a big question arises that why God unnecessarily tortures Himself in this world? Answer to this question is also No; God does not torture Himself unnecessarily. We will discuss this issue also but before that we will see some thinking patterns which can be used as short term reliefs for all the problems listed above. By using these thinking patterns one may stay away from depression at least for short term and then I will discuss the best solution in my view which may give us relief from depression forever. So let's take the issues one by one again.
If you noticed in the reasons, which I have mentioned above, then in all situations the feeling of being deprived of something is the real cause of depression in all stages of life. So the solution to all the problems above is going to be the feeling of having something more important than the thing which one might be deprived of. Below I will try to suggest the things that all of us have in all conditions of life.
But before taking such things into account we should look at life in totality. We should not divide life in different religions, sects, races, neither in humans and animals, nor even trees and rocks or inanimate things. The life we live or the world we experience is an organic whole which functions as a whole and not as isolated islands of living forms or human races or religions. We all share same air and same sky with all other animate and inanimate things so how can we differentiate among them? Once our approach becomes all-encompassing then it becomes relatively easy to come out of depression by looking at the inferior forms of life.
Alright, until now we have defined depression and saw causes of depression. But what does spiritual thought say about the depression and its causes? If God has created this world then why has he created it with so many difficulties for His children? When we look at the world then one may feel that the world is a brutal joke played by a cruel God. What was the need for Him to create such world full of inequality, misery, despair, adultery, diseases, wealth and health problems, cheating etc?
However, this is not the case, God has not created this world to torture us, in fact it is God who is tortured by all these troubles which we face because we are small fractions of God, God Himself has disguised as various souls who experience this world. Then again a big question arises that why God unnecessarily tortures Himself in this world? Answer to this question is also No; God does not torture Himself unnecessarily. We will discuss this issue also but before that we will see some thinking patterns which can be used as short term reliefs for all the problems listed above. By using these thinking patterns one may stay away from depression at least for short term and then I will discuss the best solution in my view which may give us relief from depression forever. So let's take the issues one by one again.
If you noticed in the reasons, which I have mentioned above, then in all situations the feeling of being deprived of something is the real cause of depression in all stages of life. So the solution to all the problems above is going to be the feeling of having something more important than the thing which one might be deprived of. Below I will try to suggest the things that all of us have in all conditions of life.
But before taking such things into account we should look at life in totality. We should not divide life in different religions, sects, races, neither in humans and animals, nor even trees and rocks or inanimate things. The life we live or the world we experience is an organic whole which functions as a whole and not as isolated islands of living forms or human races or religions. We all share same air and same sky with all other animate and inanimate things so how can we differentiate among them? Once our approach becomes all-encompassing then it becomes relatively easy to come out of depression by looking at the inferior forms of life.
No comments have been added yet.
