Words from the Master

A small story:

A lady once went shopping with her husband.
She wanted to buy a coat for herself.
They visited many shops but she could not find what she wanted.
The husband became tired. He asked, “Dear, do you know the exact kind of coat you want to buy?”
The wife replied, “Of course dear! I am looking for a drop-dead coat.”
The husband could not understand what she meant. He asked, “What is a drop-dead coat, dear?”
She replied, “When people see it, they will drop dead!”

(Loud laughter!)

We are all the time looking to see how we can collect certificates from people! Every action of ours is unconsciously related to what people will say to it; how people will react to it.

For example, a bag may come reasonably within your budget and it may have a lot of utility value also. But unconsciously, your mind will visualize you holding that bag and what others will think when they see you with it; then you decide that it is not good enough for others to see you holding it. You start choosing again! But you will not agree that you are searching for certificates, because it is an unconscious process in you!

We become almost like a centipede. A centipede needs 100 legs to walk. Like that, we need the synchronous approval of everyone for us to walk in life. What happens if even one leg of the centipede is not alright? It will be stranded where it is. What happens to us when even one approval fails to be got? We fall into depression.

If we are so dependent on others, there is every possibility that we will fall into depression. People who suffer from depression are actually suffering from attention-need. Over time, something happens, they don’t get enough attention and they are not capable of handling it. Just one word is enough to put us into depression. But we don’t know the real reason for our depression. So what do we do? We start taking medicines to cure it.

How will it heal? The cause for the depression is inside you and you look at medicines for help. When people come to me with depression, I tell them to do the simple Mahamantra meditation to start with and tell them that slowly, we will stop the medicines.

You see, these people need to be shown that their Energy source lies within them. And meditation can show them that.

Depending on the sincerity with which they do the meditation, they can simply harness the Energy inside them and come out of depression. Medicines will dull them even more. This needs to be understood.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.