তোমার কাছে এ বর মাগি, মরণ হতে যেন জাগি
গানের সুরে ।।
যেমনি নয়ন মেলি যেন মাতার স্তন্যশুধা-হেন
নবীন জীবন দেয় গো পূরে গানের সুরে ।।
সেথায় তরু তৃণ যত
মাটির বাঁশি হতে ওঠে গানের মতো ।
আলোক সেথা দেয় গো আনি আকাশের আনন্দবাণী,
হৃদয়মাঝে বেড়াই ঘুরে গানের সুরে ।।
--Rabindranath Tagore
The only beg, worth begging from you,
is to wake up from death going through your melancholy tune......
In modern world depression is considered as some type of curse and those, who are going through this phase, live in some kind of darker world than others. Those who live away from that world are different and lucky and won’t be covered by that any time. For those dark world duelers only hope to keep themselves positive and right mood is taking medication or tranquilizer etc. And it is commonly observed that those people are easy victim of drug abuse alcoholism etc. But the fact is, this is nothing but a phase of life which comes to everybody’s life, like any other state of mind. The challenge is how to turn it into a positive impact to our life.
If we can correctly utilize this state of mind, it helps us to re-orient our relationship with our inner world to the outer, then it will leave us as a better person and more content with life than ever before, a more dynamic positive radiation from your personality which world never seen from you before.
The fact is, it is another tool like frustration, boringness, sadness of mind which helps us to re orient our relation with the outer world and improve our thought process to evolve us as a better person than what we were before. Normally it happens when the logic of the conscious mind cannot explain what is happening around, so mind develops a tendency of withdrawal. And the truth is every human being faces this, one point or other in his life time. So it is more important how to handle it rather than ignoring or avoiding it through medication. If we can channelize it in the right direction, it will be remembered as a positive life changing phase of our life.
As one of the greatest professor in this faculty I have seen in my academics Dr. Dhar of NITIE, used to mention, it has been observed from history, most of the human beings who did excel in their own field, have gone though a strong phase of depression sometime in their early life.
Looking back to our ancient scriptures, the greatest teaching of Hindu philosophy, Srimad Bhagabat Gita starts with a detail explanation of Bishad Yoga ( Yoga of sadness ). It has given an well documented explanation of how the great warrior Arjuna shaded with the cloud of depression, all of a sudden, just before encountering the most important war of his life and developed a tendency of withdrawing, run away from the task ahead, the task for which he prepared himself and was waiting for life long. This tendency is very common in a deeply depressed mind. In the following chapters of Srimad Bhagabat Gita, explain the psychiatric treatment of Sri Krishna, practiced on Arjuna which not only helped him to come out from the phase of depression but also put him on the greatest job of his life with the right attitude, so that he will be able to perform his duty not to satisfy his personal ego of taking revenge nor with the impulsive anger or emotion of this moment but for something much much larger than a life of an warrior.
This power only Visad, depression has, to put a simple life in the light of right perspective to the world around us, what helps us to realize ourselves as much much larger than our insignificant life….meeting to our true self.
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