Sad and Depressing: Living Without Knowing The Self
Ours is the situation of a man who trades everything away and gets nothing in return; double depression, double debit. Without realizing that Truth must be the number one priority, we very easily dispense it away. Depression means – the height is unknown to you. The only height is the Core, the Essence, the Self. The one who is not connected to the One Truth will always feel depressed, will always feel down.
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Questioner: My question is about depression. For quite some time, I have been observing that the mind is like a sine curve; there are highs and there are lows. But the lows are more frequent and wider than the highs. Why it is so?
Acharya Prashant: Lows are lows. The problem arises when the highs are also lows. Then all that you get is only lows.
In a sine curve, you ought to have lows and highs. Now, lows are lows, but it becomes tragic when the highs are also lows. What is sad and depressing is indeed sad and depressing, but what was supposed to be exciting and wonderful— that too turns out to be sad and depressing. Then it is a betrayal of hope, and then it is indeed twice depressing.
This is what happens when we make a bad deal. And the mind, though it thinks itself to be a very clever businessman, always makes bad deals. The mind is a trader; it gives away something and it wants something in return. Kindly see what it gives away and what it wants. It gives its Essence away; it gives Freedom away; it gives Love away; it gives Simplicity and Sincerity away. And what does it want in return? It wants acceptance; it wants pleasure. But it gets defeated on both counts. How?
