Depression - Causes and Cure (TE 265) Dr Alok Pandey
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2020
- This talk, delivered as a video conference, touches upon some of the causes of depression and ways and means to prevent it. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey, for audio recording go to auromaa.org/
[TE 265]
Omm Nama bhagavate Sri Aurobindoya prabhu
So beautiful ly you speak Sir
Sir my Pronam to you. ।। always you used to show us the correct path on the light of Mother & Sri Aurobindo
Thank you for all video @ aromaa .
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I fond of your speech. When you speak it take me towards Divine
Great post Aalok sir.
We get all answers to our questions and doubts from Alok ji's speech. Thank you very much sir! 🙏
Thank you for your valuable speech
Excellent speech sir.wonderful.pranams to maa.pranams to you.👍👍👌👌👌
Thank you so much sir for this wonderful elaboration🙏🏻
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O our sweet Mother, spread this wisdom, spread this light, spread this divine love all over the world. ⚘🌹🌼🌷🌺🌸🙏🙏❤❤
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Truths doesn't prevail in real life s,,,,, regards,, namaskar Baroda saee 🙏☝️
Explanation was scientific and with the practical way to overcome through integral yoga. Thanks sir.
Sir, you said in the initial part of video something like there are people who can't keep up with pace of life and all throughout this video, I saw you blaming the depressed person himself for his condition. Is it not the society's fault for the fast pace? Do we need this pace? Do we not need to slow down? And also isn't depression a crisis for evolution? I suffer from depression since a long time. I am always fatigued. But I am a fighter. But the pace is something I can't handle. Also judgement of society? Why must society judge one on their standards? Isn't society toxic in a lot of ways? I see depression as an evolutionary crisis. Could you share your thoughts on this?
I am not sure which video gave you this impression that one gets depressed because one is unable to keep pace with the Society! On the contrary, - and perhaps this is what may have been misunderstood, there is no need to enter into the lane of competition and race that a society based on competitive individualism generates. It is true that the blossoming and efflorescence of an individual does take place when he faces challenges from the society. When the individual stands his ground firmly against the challenges, his individuality is chiseled. If he goes with the flow of the Society and navigates successfully he remains largely a creature defined by others. He has to face another kind of challenge though which is to maintain his position in the course of which he is likely to move away from his true swadharma and reflect merely the mood and thinking of the group to which he belongs. Though this is a stage in the course of evolution as this need for social conformity tames the wild beast in us. The third possibility is that he is unable to take the social pressure and the challenge of life (which is what may have given the impression of 'not able to keep the pace or take the challenge). Herein people begin to seek doors of escape by joining either groups that do not generate such social pressures or else some feeling unsupported breakdown and may suffer depression.
Seen thus we have a hierarchy of responses to the challenges that Society imposes. They can breakdown under the pressure which is of course the least advisable response. It is born out of tamoguna, the principle of Inertia. Or they can take the challenge and carve their own place in the Society, born out of rajoguna, the principle of kinetic action. This is the second best. Or else he can try to discover and govern his life by some higher standard, ethical or ideal and live by it even if it is opposed by the Society. This is the sattwic response which creates the high noble type. The difference between this and the blind revolt of the low rajasic type is that the former is driven by the seeking for something higher and truer than what is found in his social mould. The individual is seeking for a new and higher construction. He is the social reformer, the catalyst for a higher change that society follows later. The latter is driven mostly by the spirit of destruction, or revolt for its own sake. True his revolt is driven by some imperfection in the social constructs. This revolt too does serve the purpose of breaking down the past thereby clearing the way for the future. Yet the true individuality is built by centering our life around some higher ideal discovered by our conscious thought.
These then are the various possible relations between the individual and the society. The individual invariably spearheads the social change. But he does run the risk of breaking down and sink into the vortex of depression which is the worst that could happen. It is not that the society is good or bad as much as how much it supports the individual in discovering his own deeper truth and gives him the freedom to explore and live by it. Societies that do not encourage this try to enforce and regulate every sphere of human life from outer behaviour to his thinking and feelings and even hopes and aspirations. Such societies are counter evolutionary and foredoomed to be wiped out after a time. These generate the maximum stress and are ridden with strong undercurrents of depression, violence and anger..
Of course there is a yet higher stage which is where the mental individual begins to enter the spiritual but that is a different subject and it changes everything, almost like a reversal.
@AuroMaa Thank you so much Sir for responding. Your words enter into the realms of my psyche with so much ease and give me a lot of peace. I would have to read it 3-4 times though, to grasp the message completely.
Thank you Pande for the selection of this topic. Please why don't you start addressing teenagers who are in search of some worthful meanings of their life in accordance with their surroundings and acedamics. Unfortunately they don't get impressing guidence both from parents and from their teachers. Can you help them if they are really sincere and serious
there are a few talks available here: czcams.com/play/PLrnF67-HbtxPZhb3JEGSWhXV-NhVdoUSx.html
@@AuroMaa yes yes I have seen . But very few. One in Coimbatore one for school children and few talks. This was already shown to children. I wanted you to introduce the way of life to be led by youngsters who are not familiar with anytype of yoga.
Also give a brief introduction about Sri Aurobindo The mother and their mission and vision. With that background I can encourage them to listen to your other series of lectures like Aim of life etc.
How can we improve our nerve strong
Do some deep breathing exercise especially Nadi shuddhi Pranayam such as. Anulom Vilom.
Asanas are also very helpful in strengthening the nerves.
Practice inner Calm.
Avoid excitement and anything that can agitate.
Do regular meditation including on Peace.
Play some sport games regularly.
@@AuroMaa thanks alot
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Hindi me mil sakty hai the video. Sorry maa Ab nahi kru gi.
How to join the next question and answer session of this. I want to join the next session. I want ask some questions to Alok Da.
you can use email auromaaorg@gmail.com for your questions
Alok Pandey Ji,
My sibling lives alone in Australia dealing with depression and is taking medication. His mind is not open to anything. What i do to help him?
I pray to mother to help him i can send him physical goods ..he is saying he has severe depression and taking medication. Do you have suggestions ...
A single thing I would suggest for him is to stay busy with work.
Additionally he should do some physical workout everyday.
Finally, spend sometime in quiet reflection and prayer.
For the rest such as medication etc go by the doctor's advice.
From your side prayer and emotional support with positive encouraging words showing him the silver lining behind every cloud and instilling hope and faith is what you can do.
@@AuroMaa thank you for your reply ... Alok Pandey Ji. Your series exploration with savitri is so wonderful ... Thank you 🙏
Alok Pandey Ji, I need your suggestion my daughter is almost 4 yr old ... i have been with her full time from 9 mos taking care of her in USA ( not too much social life)... She is very calm in nature she loves nature flowers ... we sent to daycare in between 2 yrs she was just with her teacher... she got a 1 yr break during covid time ...she is very good communication with me ... She doesnt communicate with her peers turns her faceoff or not interested .. She is a preemie too ...
There are so many mental suggestions around we dont want her to label her anything ...
Please give me your suggestions ...
As always Thanks a lot ... 🙏
Your daughter seems to me to be spiritually sensitive. shyness often comes naturally with this sensitivity to save oneself from the unpleasant contacts of the world which can sometimes be too overwhelming. There is nothing wrong with this and does not warrant anything special. Let her be herself and grow along her own unique lines.
@@AuroMaa So Glad to hear this... Thank you for your reply.
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Thank you 🙏
Have you seen the Hollywood movie ‘Cast away’ ? It’s another good example of extreme endurance when lost in an island all alone.
SR HUMBLY PRANAM! IF IT IS HEREDITARY THEN CAN IT BE CURED.... BUT DEPRESSIVE PERSONS DONT LISTEN THESE TALKS..... SHALL OTHERS PRAY ND IT BE SUCCESSFUL
f depression or anything else is hereditary it means that the material basis is faulty and hence does not support the working of Divine forces easily. However being difficult does not mean impossible. There is no difficulty that cannot eventually be dissolved by the Divine Grace supported by a faith that is persistent. It may take time, sometimes a long time but its effect is bound to be there. The key is perseverance and to endure the passage of time. But even when it may not be completely cured and some material support is needed by way of medication, my experience has been that an opening to the Grace, even when the faith is not complete and tainted with doubts from time to time does blunt the sting of the illness and protects the person from extreme steps which itself is not a small gain. In any case even for someone who does not believe in Grace to start with it is still a logical thing to pray and invoke Help from the Grace while continuing with whatever other means and methods one is using. For the Grace does not respond according to human logic but to something else.. It is enough that there is something within us, something of which the surface person may not be aware. Yet the Grace can and does act and supports one from behind. our blindness does not prevent it from acting. This has been the experience of all who have known the workings of the Grace and it is this to which we must hold on to and trust regardless of heredity and other things that may stand in the way of Her workings. Ultimately fate and destiny yield before the persistence of human will and even when there is no immediate success or even a seeming failure for this life, it has yet opened the doors for the future and created a groove through which the Divine Grace can act. For while our body and even outer personality is limited by a single lifetime neither the Grace nor our inner beings and the soul are thus limited. That is why it is always wise to try, to call Her Grace even in the face of certain failure and inevitable defeat. For in the end we shall find that it is not defeat and failure that are permanent and certain, - they are merely incidents in the long epic of the soul. Even death is simply a passage and not a final seal. What is permanent and indestructible is the soul's will and faith and the Grace which grow and return again and again after any number of defeats until the crown of victory is acquired for the immortal soul of man.
Here are few lines from Savitri that reveal this profound truth for all of us:
Fate is Truth working out in Ignorance.
O King, thy fate is a transaction done
At every hour between Nature and thy soul
With God for its foreseeing arbiter.
Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny’s book.
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse.
Even if the One maintains the unseen decree
He writes thy refusal in thy credit page:
For doom is not a close, a mystic seal.
Arisen from the tragic crash of life,
Arisen from the body’s torture and death,
The spirit rises mightier by defeat;
Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall.
Its splendid failures sum to victory.
O man, the events that meet thee on thy road,
Though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief,
Are not thy fate,-they touch thee awhile and pass;
Even death can cut not short thy spirit’s walk:
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.
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