Questioner: Good evening, Guru ji. My name is Shashikant Prabhakar, and I am from Dhanbad, Jharkhand. I am currently pursuing an MTech from NIT-Silchar, Assam. My question is, if I get tired of something, I get into depression. If I move away from that place, everything starts working fine. After some time, when I come back to the place where I was staying, everything restarts again like it had started earlier, and I start feeling hopeless and go back into that emotional state. So, why does it happen, actually?
Acharya Prashant: Would you repeat the happening?
Questioner: It’s like if I’m suffering from depression or feeling tired of anything like my studies or financial issues or whatever it is. When I move to another place, everything starts working fine. But when I come back, it again starts happening like it was earlier, low emotionally and all those things. Why does it happen, actually? Is it because of the state of my mind or something else?
Acharya Prashant: It happens because the root of the disturbance is within you. Temporarily, a change of surroundings helps reduce the disturbance, but the mere change in external situations cannot help beyond a point. So, once again, when the external situations are not conducive, you will find yourself internally flustered. And to make things worse, you probably keep on returning to places that made you flustered in the first place.
So, it’s no surprise that you once again start feeling uneasy. Have you understood both of these points?
