Why do we have depression? We have depression if we don't do any service,
*Chapter 11 - Depression*
Why do we have depression? We have depression if we don't do any service, if we keep thinking about ourselves.
If you want to get depressed, just sit in a corner and think only about yourself. It is the best way to get depressed.
Go out into the world. It needs you. Anyway, you are going to die. Before you die at least make this breath and body, useful to people around you.
If you do so, there is no way that you can get depressed. You get depressed because you are seeking love, joy and comfort somewhere out there.
Knowledge of the self is just the opposite. It turns the whole thing around. The sign of enlightenment is an absence of depression, because there cannot be darkness in light.
So, the first step is to understand that you are going to die anyway - maybe in another 10,20 years. You
may mark it on a calendar.
You know the scale may move up and down. This is going to happen anyway. But, feel that you should be of some service to people before it happens and do so. That is something that will really give you a high.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
Waves of emotions