All Life Is Yoga: Depression

by The (d.i. Mira Alfassa) Mother, Sri Aurobindo

Overview

“The rule in Yoga is not to let the depression depress you, to stand back from it, observe its cause and remove the cause; for the cause is always in oneself, perhaps a vital defect somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment. In Yoga a desire satisfied, a false movement given its head produces very often a worse recoil than disappointed desire. What is needed for you is to live more deeply within, less in the outer vital and mental which is exposed to these touches. The inmost psychic being is not oppressed by them; it stands in its own closeness to the Divine and sees the small surface movements as surface things foreign to the true being.” (Sri Aurobindo) | “Indeed, depression is the worst of all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.” (The Mother)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783937701950
Publisher:	Sri Aurobindo Digital Edition
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

I. EXCERPTS FROM THE MOTHER 1. The Mother’s Advice 2. Listen to the Voice of a Friend 3. Perseverance Breaks Down All Obstacles 4. Cause of Depression – I 5. Cause of Depression – II 6. Cause of Depression – III 7. The Vital Being in Us 8. Cure of Depression – I 9. Cure of Depression – II 10. Cure of Depression – III 11. Cure of Depression – IV 12. Cure of Depression – V 13. The Right Attitude 14. Depression and Enthusiasm – Two Extremes 15. Failures and Defeats in Life 16. The Extraordinary Power of Savitri II. EXCERPTS FROM SRI AUROBINDO 1. Guidance to a Confused Disciple 2. Let Not Depression Depress You 3. Gospel of Sorrow 4. He who would bring the heavens here, must descend himself into clay 5. Faithfulness to the Light of the Soul and the Divine Call