Sunday 27 July 2014

21. Listen to Heart – Focus on Rejection of Dejection by Path of Actions….

Hari Bol....

21. Listen to Heart – Focus on Rejection of Dejection by Path of Actions….


It is a state of depression. It is a part of grieving process. It may be due to loss of a loved one. If a person has a desire but if he fails to achieve, it may lead to depression and due to this a feeling of dejection arises. Dejection lowers down the spirit. It gives us unhappiness, disappointment and leaves no hope. It takes us towards the hopeless situation making us helpless. It is negative source of energy which produces negative vibrations and creates negative surroundings. It generally arises when one has desire for result. If one is not able to achieve the desired result he gets into depression. He starts feeling that the life is useless for him. He is useless for himself also. This gives the feeling of dejection. One starts living alone. He does not want to face the society and the world. He prefers not to live and if live also he wants to live with himself only. This gives him a feeling of dejection and sadness. He is mentally upset. Dejection is one of the causes of various crimes taking place in our society.


There’s no simple answer as to why people become depressed. It’s often a combination of things and it varies from person to person. We do know that some people are more likely to become depressed than others. Depression can also be triggered by a difficult situation in your life, or it can build up over many years. Sometimes there’s no obvious reason. Being aware of the risk factors in your life will help you identify what might be causing your depression and help you find the right way through it. Dejection could be due to;
·        Other members of your family having depression
·        traumatic experiences in childhood, including violence
·        Death or loss of someone close
·        Relationship break-ups
·        Traumatic, often life threatening events
·        Financial pressure
·        Unemployment
·        Serious accidents (particularly head injuries) or long-term illness
·        Some medication (check with your doctor)
·        Stress or problems at work, school or university or on the farm
·        Bullying or abuse
·        Some women experience depression during pregnancy or after childbirth
·        Natural events such as drought or earthquakes
·        Excessive alcohol consumption
·        Recreational or party drugs
·        Social isolation
·        Lack of sleep
·        Poor diet and lack of exercise

If one does not desire for the result and its consequences he can avoid dejection. He has to focus the result and work towards it rather we aim for results and miss the dedication and hard work to achieve it.


In today’s scenario all the parents have very high expectations from their children. Every parent wants his children to get the highest marks and should top the class. I really wonder can all the student of a class can get same marks or grades and can all top the class. What an expectation? If a student is not able to bear with the pressure, he gets into depression and a feeling of dejection is there. Various medical diseases start at early stage. Blood Pressure, Sugar, Depressions, etc. are the outcome and in fact this even leads to Suicide which no parents would like. Why such a high expectation? I request all parents to question themselves, “Were you the topper of the class? Have you touched the peak? And so on.” What we need to understand is to make the children understand rather than demand the results. Focus on process for the result and not focus on result without the process. In industry people follow systems like ISO, TS and TQM (Deming) which are based on process approach (Plan Do Check Act i.e. PDCA cycle). I will not be wrong in saying, “Do your Karma”.



·        Men's best successes come after their disappointments - Henry Ward Beecher
·        Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall - Confucius
·        Nobody can hurt me without my permission - Mahatma Gandhi


The graph of life with ups and downs should be accepted from mind and heart and one should not expect it to be a straight line; as a straight line graph of ECG of heart is also not good and not accepted.


I would like to share an article about dejection in spiritual form. Every fact that the disciples stated was right, but the conclusions they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that has even a hint of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If I am depressed or burdened, I am to blame, not God or anyone else. Dejection stems from one of two sources— I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means “I must have it at once.” Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer. What have I been hoping or trusting God would do? Is today “the third day” and He has still not done what I expected? Am I therefore justified in being dejected and in blaming God? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected, because dejection is a sign of sickness. This is also true spiritually. Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it.


We look for visions from heaven and for earth-shaking events to see God’s power. Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us. If we will only obey, and do the task that He has placed closest to us, we will see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity.


Krishna after a listening Arjuna for a long, Lord broke his silence. Krishna wondered how Arjuna could plunge into dejection at this crucial time when the battle was just to start. This was not expected by him as Khashtriya. Krishna asks Arjuna, “Whence has this state come upon you? It is not becoming of an Aryan to behave thus. It will get you neither fame in the present nor heaven in future.” Arjuna had nobility of character to fulfill his obligations as Khashtriya and a leader of Pandava force. How could Arjuna fall into such a dejection state?


In the presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna’s lamentation for his kinsmen is certainly unbecoming, and therefore. Krishna expressed His surprise with the word Kutah, “wherefrom.” Such impurities were never expected from a person belonging to the civilized class of men known as Aryans. The word Aryan is applicable to persons who know the value of life and have a civilization based on spiritual realization. Persons who are led by the material conception of life do not know that the aim of life is realization of the Absolute Truth, Vishnu, or Krishna, and they are captivated by the external features of the material world, and therefore they do not know what liberation is. Persons who have no knowledge of liberation from material bondage are called non-Aryans. Although Arjuna was a Khashtriya, he was deviating from his prescribed duties by declining to fight. The Aryan race, which inhabited ancient India, dedicated itself to spiritual emancipation (Moksha). As an Aryan, Arjuna was expected to aspire for that ultimate liberation through the Path of Action (Karma Yoga). But this act of cowardice is described as befitting the non-Aryans. Such deviation from duty does not help one in the progress of spiritual life, nor does it even give one the opportunity to become famous in this world. Lord Krishna did not approve of the so-called compassion of Arjuna for his kinsmen.


Arjuna was not focusing on the Path of Action as a Khashtriya rather he was more focused on the result and consequences of battle. Due to his dejection state of mind he forgot his duty and thus refused to fight. He forgot that the fight was between righteous and unrighteous but he took this fight as a fight between brothers i.e. Kauravas and Pandavas.


All Glories to Lord Krishna & All His Loving Devotees….. Hari Bol……
Courtesy : Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) ,  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy  & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 2 : Text 2

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