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Understanding and Overcoming Depression · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In today's world, depression is a widespread malady that affects
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  people throughout the world. In many cases, pharmaceutical
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  drugs are known to have potential side effects that can
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  cause depression thoughts of suicide or other dark.
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  Moods that inhibit the ability of the individual to function in
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  his life. in other cases, there is a serious mismatch Between
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  the pressures and concerns once he's in the world and the inner
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  sense of one's life and meaning in many cases, there is a sense
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  of failure, but the mother calls a want a vital satisfaction that
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  is accentuated through peer pressure, bullying and
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  unrealistic, expectations, placed on an individual, through
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  family, friends, or the societal setting, Then there is the
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  concern that everything is useless, due to the wanton
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  destruction of the environment and the careless attitude of
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  people who are creating division, hatred, fear, pain,
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  and suffering for others, and about which one cannot do
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  anything. The mother dealt with thousands
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  of individuals as the SRI aurobindo ashram, and the
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  associated School developed and expanded.
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  For the most part, this was a small focused group of
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  individuals who are working on their inner growth and
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  development and thus not a representative group of people
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  in relation to the question of depression at large in the
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  world. However, the mother's view even
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  when focused on this limited set of individuals provides us
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  insight into both the deeper roots of depression and
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  potential. Obviously, those cases of
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  depression, either caused or accentuated through chemical
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  imbalances caused by pharmaceutical.
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  Drugs needs must require the withdrawal of those drugs.
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  As new methods of addressing the underlying conditions, for which
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  the drugs are prescribed are put in place.
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  Those caused by physical exhaustion and extreme fatigue.
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  Similarly can be alleviated through balancing, the life,
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  more completely, with proper attention to the needs of the
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  Body for rest and recuperation proper food and activity.
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  Yet we see remaining a vast number of cases of depression in
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  the world particularly compared to past ages. do the the feeling
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  of being overwhelmed helpless and weak in the face of the
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  Machinery of the society and the expectations that are raised In
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  this case, helping people to understand the deeper
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  significance of life and their individual capacity to address
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  that can help people find the way through the state of
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  depression as the mother. So clearly indicates Controlled
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  experiments with hallucinogenic, drug therapy, or with shamanic
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  Vision Quest, have shown that taking the individual outside of
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  their limited ego personality and showing them a larger higher
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  purpose, and existence can help free them from the states of
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  depression. Turning then to the mother
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  specific insights. We find that she addressed.
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  Those who have the inner capability of understanding and
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  shifting their awareness, either to a higher Consciousness, or to
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  the inner psychic being, which is in tune with the universal
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  manifestation and participates in the Consciousness, that is
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  manifesting instead of wallowing in The Limited vital personality
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  of the desire Soul, the individual shifts, the focus and
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  awareness towards the larger reality A disciple asks, how can
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  depression be control? The mother observes quote.
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  Oh, there's a very simple way, depression occurs, generally in
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  the vital and one is overpowered by depression.
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  Only, when one keeps the Consciousness in the vital, when
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  one remains there, the only thing to do is get out of the
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  vital and enter a deeper consciousness.
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  Even the higher mind, the luminance higher mind, the most
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  lofty, thoughts have the power to drive away, depression.
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  Even when one reaches, just the highest domains of thought,
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  usually the depression disappears.
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  But in any case, if one seeks shelter in the psychic, then
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  there is no longer any room for depression.
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  Depression may come from to causes either from a want, a
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  vital satisfaction or from a considerable nervous fatigue in
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  the body. Depression arises arising from
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  physical fatigue, is set right? Fairly easily one has, but to
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  take rest on goes to bed and sleeps until one feels well
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  again. Or else one rests dreams, lies
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  down. The Wando.
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  Vital satisfaction is pretty easily produced and usually one
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  must face it, with one's reason, must ferret out the cause of the
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  depression, what is brought about?
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  The lack of satisfaction in the vital and then one looks at it,
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  straight in the face and ask oneself.
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  Whether that indeed has anything to do with one's inner
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  aspiration or whether it is simply quite Ordinary movement.
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  Generally one discovers that it has nothing to do with the inter
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  aspiration and one can quite easily overcome it and resume
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  ones, normal movement. If that does not suffice then,
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  one must go deeper and deeper until one touches the psychic
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  reality. The one has only to put this
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  psychic reality in contact with the movement of depression and
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  instantaneously it will vanish Into Thin Air.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the vital depression Pages. 56 to 58.