Causes of depression - Guilt

The first cause is the feeling of guilt. When you feel, think, and know that you did something wrong to yourself or to others physically, with your feelings, or with your thoughts and words, you feel guilty. By thinking about your wrong doing, you build an image of yourself, and this image builds an etheric, emotional, and mental layer around your aura and isolates you to some degree from life currents circulating in the Universe.

You also create a cleavage between your personality and your Real Self. Such an isolation and cleavage deprives you of these vehicles, and they fall separately or collectively into inertia, into depression.

Guilt leads to inertia and depression. That is why when you clean your conscience, you will never be depressed. But our conscience gets loaded and loaded by small things that we do. For example, we know that evil talk is no good, but we talk, gossip, criticize, and it accumulates. Then we steal a little, lie a little. Then we do something else. Eventually we become physically, emotionally, and mentally out of order, and we fall away from conscious contact with our conscience. When these things accumulate and come to their saturation point, depression starts.

The first thing you must know is that the cause of depression is moral and spiritual. It is related to the conscience and to your sense of righteousness, purity, and beauty. When that sense is strong in you, you are unfolding through the sense of beauty, unity, purity, synthesis, cleanness, and wholeness.

But when you act against these things you depress yourself because anything you do against the principles and laws of Nature is a load that you put on your nervous system. You decrease your spiritual Self and increase your material self, and this creates a tremendous imbalance in your system.

How to get rid of guilt?

The first thing is to repeat the following mantram with concentration and faith:

More radiant than the Sun,
Purer than the snow,
Subtler than the ether
Is the Self,
The Spirit within my heart.
I am that Self.
That Self am I.

No matter what you did, no matter what you are in this stage of your evolution, God is within you. And God cannot make any guilt. It is your physical, emotional, and mental bodies that make mistakes, but not the God within you. You are God within you, not your bodies. If you develop this philosophy, you have a way to come out of depression.

Avoiding guilt feelings does not mean to imply that this should encourage you to fall into error. On the contrary, it will create a reverse reaction. Guilt means identification with your bodies, but as you think about your Self, you will be protected by Its light.


-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing