Acharya ji on causes of depression

Anxiety which was quite uncommon some 5-6 decade ago have become quite common these days, these are the facts arising from researches. These days people always have burden on their heads they are carrying tensions all the time. There are primarily two reasons to these conditions:

First being, after the scientific revolution things that people can own have increased drastically, 100 folds then before 5-6 decades. Not only these things are present, those things are continuously flashed before you. The things people could expect to have earlier, now those things have increased many times on top of that they are advertised before you in every possible medias it means they are forcing you those things. Now how can people always have all those things available to them, your capacity cannot increase along with the products, theres always a limitation to consumption. Now what this will result is the great frustration, frustration that so many things are available but I am not being able to have those. This will always create great tension in them. Not only there is frustration about not getting those products but jealous that other people are owning them. People post their photos on Fb to show other people that they are happy owning them, and other people are already burnt to see other people are happy. Other people cannot know what after those happy photos, they just get super jealous and burden their mind. I am the only one left behind all other people are happy, some are buying good house, some have great cars, I am the only one unhappy. This have created depression on us.This is the first reason of depression, forced consumerism.

Another reason of anxiety and depression is within us that is decline in wisdom. People have started to believe most important thing in the world is money, earn however you can. They have totally disregarded the fact that theres more important thing than money; life. This will obviously create great tension in life, they have totally forgot to live. The school teaches everything in life except how to live. The growing children know things of here and there but fail to know what is life. They are not taught the things of wisdom. People were more wise back then, they knew what were important in life. If your life is not touched by patience, love, understanding, diligence, honesty then your life  cannot have peace. These things are not included in syllabus of any school and colleges, then how can a person have wisdom in life. There are news of mass shooting in schools and colleges and often the weapon bearer is the student himself, where is the education heading? Back then people had wisdom they might not have enough money but they surely gifted us wisdom education. We really insulted those wisdom education, calling it traditional, unscientific and followed west blindly. See where have this brought us today, all sorts of mental illnesses. We have been brought up in such a way that we do not see any value of those education. We even grace those person who talk or read such wisdom literature. You assume those people who read such literature is wasting time, its not a waste of time its the finding of todays bleeding edge psychological research and scientific studies. Todays scientific personalities have started to acknowledge the wisdom literature of then people but we are laughing on those things and disrespecting the literature. People who significantly miss those things in life will have uncalmness, shadowy and intoxicated life. If you study the biography of top most achievers of the world, you will find 90% of those people had keen interest in wisdom literature. Among them many of them visited east from west to understand and simplify their mind before beginning their entrepreneurship. West have been acknowledging the usefulness of such literature but we east have totally disregarded it. Now every kind of mental disorder, obsession, anxiety, depression are the obvious outcome.

Question yourself were we born to consume the product of those person and make them more rich? Be very very careful what desire are arising from you and who is creating it? Are I not becoming the victim of someone else's greed? Study and understand the wisdom literature, these days studying one has become very easier due to technology, you can even order it online. Study it and understand you life, understand who are after you,your time, energy, money: beware of them.

Acharya ji on getting control of Lust,Anger,Jealousy,Selfishness and Ego.

Acharya ji says theres no need to control these attributes of life, simply because these cannot be controlled and do not even try to control. There have been lots of efforts to control but have often resulted in failure. Many yogis, tapasvee, sadhus have failed, how could you control it.

You will have to approach it from different angle, say if you want to control anger, do not force it to control just say I will not get angry on small things, I will get angry only on bigger matter. This will be your primary step. You cannot do anything directly to anger to control. Aim higher how fruitful will it be to get angry on small things, shift your status. Same with the jealousy, who are you getting jealous with. If you compare yourself with almost similar person, where are you getting yourself. What will you gain even if you surpass him. Aim higher again, say you will compare yourself with those one that have gained everything in life , where do I stand before them. Even if you cannot meet him in person, read his literature, understand him, picture his photo on your room. That will remind you of your path to achievement, it will encourage you of getting maximum of what can be achieved in life, what people have achieved. This way even if you fail, you will have satisfaction that you failed before most highly admired person. this will not create guilt even on your failure. What jealousy brings, it brings pain and guilt when you cannot meet the target of comparison. When you compare yourself with those person that have gained every thing in life and walk their path to gain what they have already achieved, you will never have to suffer from jealousy.

Acharya Prashant on dealing with hatred.

Whenever anger arises within you against other, I will tell you a formula to deal with it. Keep aside your hatred and ego, and talk with the person for an hour, you will no longer be able to hate any longer. So the first thing a  person who wants to keep alive their hatred, will stop talking, will cutoff their contacts, says i will not stand before them. Theres a facility for not being face to face is you can imagine all sorts of rubbish against other. As soon as other person comes face to face your hatred crushes. Have you ever noticed with whom you want to hate, you will immediately cut off your relationship. I won't stand before the person, wont't see the face. This is nothing,its just a inner ancient-most dirty custom, self destructing egoism. This is the direct method of removing hatred, step forward and talk to person, talk for an hour, thats not much , cry from heart, u are also crying , the person is also crying...........

Acharya ji on pursuit of unknown and how to choose in a life.

 There has to be honesty in whatever you choose. It does not matter how you choose, it matters with what honesty you choose. Do the same thing that you say. Don't do one thing and say other thing. It could at first look wrong way to choose anything but if its done with utmost sincerity the fruit is sure to bear. 

Christopher Columbus set for India completely in wrong direction but he had the full honesty in his effort and the fruit bore. He discovered completely new land (America) which at that time was not even heard of.  Many people were against him, his own crew member, but he had faith in himself and had honesty in his endeavor which paid him finally. Have honesty within yourself you can choose any unknown, honestly pursuit it.