The Cure for Depression

Many people who become depressed commit suicide. In 2017 in the USA 19,510 people were murdered, but more than twice as many people committed suicide. In that year 47,173 people died by suicide. And this for only one country!

The karmic results of suicide are disastrous. When one kills his gross body (commits suicide) his next birth is without a gross body. In other words, he becomes a ghost. Ghosts have gross desires but no gross body to satisfy them with. Therefore they haunt weak minded people trying to enjoy gross pleasures vicariously by using their bodies. This a very hellish situation indeed both for the ghost and for the person being haunted.

Therefore this Krishna consciousness movement is offering a very valuable service to the world because we can educate those persons who are contemplating suicide how to get free from their depression by reviving their lost loving relationship with Krishna.

College Student in Deep Depression

College Student in Deep Depression

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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Cure for Depression?

I am very depressed. How can I remove all the negativity from my life?

Ayushi Mishra

Answer: Serve the Supreme Lord

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Ayushi,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Depression is due to misidentification with the material body. When the eternal spiritual being, who is temporarily residing within a material body which is destined to die, misidentifies himself as being the material body this is naturally a very depressing situation. He will get free from this depression when engages himself in his eternal spiritual duty of rendering loving service to the Supreme Lord, because this service liberates him from misidentification with the material body by reawakening his consciousness of his eternal spiritual identity. The art of how to do this
service is learned from the bona fide spiritual master.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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