Cause Of Depression And How To Cure It

H : Yesterday you were talking about depression and how to cure it. 

Baba Ji: "Naam bina sabh mithia hai - bereft of Naam all is temporary." 

“I am” is a depression.  What you call normal life is actually all depression.  Ask anybody how they feel.  Children will say that they are bored or fed up.  Fed up already at such a young age?  Why?  Because of the desires for more toys.  More desires means more depression, more anxiety and more stress.  Unfulfilled wishes create stress.   Stress feeds anger, resentment and all the other attributes of anger pile up.  These are all feeding your ego and when your ego is not happy it is called depression.  

However, in ego Truth is not known.  For example, it is customary to buy jewellery and gifts for a wedding, but it is all less than the Truth.  If it was Truth, dealings bewtween people would be heart to heart.  By making marriage into an exchange of gifts and full of ceremonies, people are not winning hearts, they are just trading in bodies and exchanging possessions in order to please people's egos.

It is the same in Sikhsim.  People are paying for ritualistic readings (Akhand Paat), they are buying and selling God's word. 

A truer marriage is when two souls deal heart to heart.  But the truest divine marriage as written in GurBani (God's Words) is when a Bhagat (saint) meets GOD within the self. That is the real marriage. People often say they are soul mates – actually they are not united with each other.  The real union happens the moment your ego dies whilst you are still alive in body.  Then you are one with Him.   Anything that is done under the influence of Maya is a depression.  Any unfulfilled dreams end in depression because it’s a house of illusion. 

Over-thinking is also a sign of depression, stress and anxiety.  And what is over-thinking?  Either the guy says, "I need respect," or "I need acclamation in everything, my achievements".  The punishment for all this is depression. 

So when you slander, the slanderer gets what?  Firstly, he is already depressed because he’s under the influence of Maya and secondly by now slandering, he’s actually putting nails into his own coffin.  By sowing hatred within his own mind it becomes his coffin. 

So all of these things are all depression.  Depression leads to stress and stress leads to physical shaking. 

Your Amrit (life-force) is being drained out because of your own thinking and negative thinking eats all your goodness away.  So when your goodness rots away then what are you?  You become what you think.  So your thought is of hatred so you are attracting hatred from the universe above as per the law of Universe affecting Body (Brahamanday-Pinday). 

You are inviting hell into your life by hating others. But by loving others and loving God you are inviting heaven into your life.  You are inviting Sach Khand (realm of Truth) into your life. 

So when you are stressed it will shorten your breath.  Your lungs are not functioning as normal, as you would in a state of meditation.   Hence you are burning and killing yourself. 

Stress causes physical shaking because it contracts your muscles an in unusual way.  If stress goes out of hand, you will get heart muscle spasms.  So you are actually killing yourself by slandering others. 

And by ignoring others, or by driving yourself to over-achieve you will burn yourself out in the end.   You are chasing Maya where you should be chasing Truth.  You dont need to chase Maya because whatever you have sown in the past is going to come to you regardless of you chasing it.  By chasing after Maya you burn yourself out and only get whatever you were destined to get anyway.

In this world of Maya - this dream, you are seeing another dream; trying to fulfill your own personal dream within the dream of Maya. 

Rather than being trapped in a dream within a dream, you should dream of reality.  Try to solve the puzzle, wake up out of the dream and realise the Truth. 

A stressful body plus an over-stressed mind will even override your hunger.  You wont feel hungry when you are over stressed.  But you would take drugs or start drinking just to get rid of your depression.  You’ll even start taking depression tablets.

Drugs, drink and medicines all add to further burning your blood with more chemicals.  Whereas you should search for Truth.  Only the Truth is going to set you free.  Truth is going to solve your depression and stress.  

But you don’t do that, instead you start drinking.  What happens if you drink a lot?  You get blood poisoning.  Your are consuming  bio-chemicals in order to get that buzz (nasha).  Those poisonous chemicals heat your blood.  What else happens to you?  Your kidneys also heat up , as well as your liver.   Your bowel movements become irregular so you start taking more pills for that.  And you're still drinking on the other side.  Now you are killing yourself from four different directions.  Now what will heated blood do to you?  It is going to hurt your heart.  Now you become a heart patient.  And when the heart doesn’t function properly it is going to affect your kidneys and liver again.  Now what is that going to do? It is going to create more poison!  Now all of your organs are working in a frenzy whereas they should be operating smoothly.  But not anymore.   

So for the fulffilment of desire under the influence of Maya you have gone into momentary hell.   And you are creating this hell through  your own desires, bad eating, excessive drinking and over-thinking.  Now you are in quicksand.  Your mind is not stable anymore. 

When all this is being cooked: your liver, your kidneys, your heart and your blood boiling all the time, its going to give you a stroke.  And the brain is a very delicate thing.  So all these punishments start from depression.   

A normal birth is a depression in itself.  If it was a joyous one, the child wouldn't cry for milk and comfort every hour.  It is supply and demand.  It is Maya.   

What is Mukti (liberation)? I shall not desire to eat, drink or sleep.  See, try to compare it.   I shall not desire to eat, drink, sleep; I shall sing only your praises.   

If you are doing deeds, you will get peace from Brahmanday (universe) into you.  You will become totally peaceful.  Your mind will become stable and will not burn.  Desire feeds your hunger for food.  The desire eats the food, your blood creates energy, over-thinking creates energy burnt out.  That’s why you get migraine head aches.  That’s the punishment for over-thinking - migraine head aches. 

So all these sicknesses that are attracted to you, are attracted to you by the state of your mind's desires. And when the desire is not fulfilled, you get depressed and depression feeds anger.  So the more angry you are, the shorter your life-span because your life is by your breathe, not by time.  Start breathing faster, you’ll burn out. 

The Sant MahaPurakhs (great saint souls) speak slowly, walk slowly, have conversations at a slow pace, why? They don’t want to burn their energies.  They don’t even have to eat.  They can take their energy from the Brahmand (universe/nature).  They can draw energy from the trees, the water, the sun, the moon, the stars, the wind and they have no friction because they have beaten Maya.  Maya is friction, desire is friction.  Attachment is friction.   You are are attached to your son and your son doesn’t listen to you, you are in friction.  You are burning your blood and your mind and your heart.  Don’t be in attachment (Moh), be in love with your child, but don’t be in attachment.  Moh is a poison.  But being in love you will do compassion to the child, you will not restrain him, you will tell him to fly and live. 

Got it?  That’s the difference.  So that’s how a person gets cooked.  So the person who becomes a slanderer is now going to get cooked like this.  He was healthy and he was doing Naam Simran, but now he’s slandered the Guru.  The game is of the mind and mind is the other name of God….(baba jee laughs). 

Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu wherever they are sitting, they are still under the command of the Lord.  And you have to pass through them, read the Bani.  What will happen now?  They will come in your way. 

H : So your mind is God and mind is also where Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu are sitting?

Baba Ji: This whole universe that you are seeing is the thinking of God and what you have around you is your own thinking and achievement.  So all is one mind. And all that you have created and built around you is God itself, got it? Infinity Loop.  But your ego kills God and thinks its my mind and tries to grasp things.  Grab what?   The people of Egypt could not take the wealth with them.  Their pyramids are full of it and they were gods my dear friend.  They had supernatural powers (ridhia) and power over the people, they had everything but they couldn’t take it with them. 

H : They believed they could that’s why they buried everything alongside them. 

Baba Ji  : That was a wrong belief.  There was still ego in it.  That’s why in “I am-ness" God is not there.

They are trapped in Maya.  Parupkar is the release from maya.  Kar Pala (do good), ho pala (become good).   

Don’t just say “God is the One in all,” dont just say “God is the all in one.”  Go further: “one-in-all, all-in-one and all-in-all.  Thait is the one God”.  When you say this, there is no hatred.   They say that truthful living is higher than Truth.  The Bhagat is higher than God.  But higher than both of these is the truthful deed.  Truth is truthful living and higher than truthful living is the truthful deed.  If you say that, now the khalsa would know he has to earn the Bani, he has to go further.  They are not earning the Bani.  They are scared to give their daswand and charity.  How can they belong to a Guru? 

"Man tan dhan arpan guru ko vari guru tai jahi - Sacrifice you mind.body and wealth countless times to your Guru."  By not giving body, mind and wealth the Guru hasn’t prevailed in the heart of Sikhs.  Selfish thinking (Manmat) is prevalent in the heart of Sikhs.  If divine wisdom (Gurmat) was there, there would be no beggars in the village where any Sikhs live.  There would be no caste system in the village where the Sikhs live.  There would be no hatred in the village where the Sikhs live.  There would be no hatred where there are injured, feeble or weak people that come into the Gurudwaras.  If they cant give them a chair to sit on (due to the wrong thinking that chairs are not allowed in the prayer hall), then why cannot one Guru's Sikh  bend down and let the elderly mother sit on his back!  You are not humble enough. 

H :  The Americans built a Gurdwara where some people can sit on chairs in the prayer hall, but because they wanted everyone’s head to be the same height they sunk the chairs into the ground! 

Baba Ji : Its all bullshit! It is still Manmat.  It is still Maya.  Bring the Sant and I will tell him face to face.  Its illusion. It is bullshit!  You are creating another illusion on top of an illusion.  Why not say the Truth.   If He did not make 5 fingers alike, he did not make any two people alike either.  The heart is the temple of God so worry not about the body and the looks.  The heart is what does the deeds.  The heart is what has to be preserved.  The heart is what has to be shared.  The heart gives out compassion and breaks all illusions.  

The book is not God.  The book is the message of God and it doesn’t matter how you sit.  That’s why in my Sangat some sat on the couch whilst I sat on the floor and others whereever they were comfortable.  I couldn’t care less because my business was the heart as per the Bani.   

When the Guru is going to become the Chela (disciple) and the Chela is going to become a Guru then what the hell do you care about who is sitting on the chair or the floor? 

When there is no difference between the Guru and the Chela, you say that and your relgious teachings say that, then what who is high or low? 

Your heart and your deeds should be high and your head should be low.  This understanding is missing.  Even by having Guru Granth Sahib amongst them they are living in such a big illusion.  Their scriptures have just become like Shiva statues.  Their religious ceremonies have become more Brahminic (ritualistic Hinduism) today and they have forgotten compassion of the heart.  They will keep on suffering and their children suffer, they are killing their own children by dominancy of religion.  Whereas you were not supposed to  dominate anyone.  Live and let others live is the message of the Bani.