How do avoid depression caused by the mistakes we make and by thinking about past bad karma?
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This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors. When things go wrong in life and we have made mistakes due to our conditioning we blame ourselves and go into depression self abuse under the garb of negativity and then someone says this is our karma, that is even more devastating we blame ourselves as victim how to correct this come out of this and become positive as devotees how do we understand this see first of all the basic principle in spiritual life is so even our mistakes or our past bad karma all that knowledge should be used to assist us in our life if anything is anything is made into something negative something which is going to hurt us or alienate us from bhakti then that should be avoided Krishna says that he talks of determination in the mode of ignorance so even what is determination in the mode of ignorance that means that we hold on to things that are past and it is a laya-sapna sapna means daydreaming constantly I don’t do anything practical I have constant fear yes then the healthy fear there is what is called paramaya people are constantly feeling something is going to go wrong things are going to collapse some people are driving on the road I think my break will fail or my day will come off so it is all very damaging for the person so just negative fantasy so that is tamasya constantly lamenting over things constantly some people are just habitually gloomy no matter whatever positivity is every problem, every good thing also you will find the fault that is not of much use vishadham madhavi people are constantly just lamenting like this went wrong went wrong na vimunchali durme dha na vimunchali means they don’t give it up actually to always be negative is not easy because being negative it causes distress to us but we still hold on to that and Krishna says that also requires determination determination but that is determination in the mode of ignorance and such determination that has been given up so if if some problems are there if they are because of our past karma even if they are so what the point is what can I do right now generally speaking the principle of karma is is is more of an intellectual explanation not real it is not an emotional it doesn’t really satisfy one’s emotion it’s your own past karma what can people have done so many problems are going on oh somebody said you must have been very sick it is horrible it is it is sometimes the knowledge of karma can make us very very insensitive there was one when Mataji asked me a question she visited my website and posted a comment so what happened she was in America she had come to temple first time she came to temple and she asked a question to the teacher she asked that you know if a woman is raped does that mean by the law of karma that she had raped someone in the US now the teacher said yes my god for 10 years she never came to temple and then a few years ago there was a telegram so I had written an article about that and after that one Mataji had asked a question you know what karma had that girl done because she got raped so I had answered the question saying you should not ever be asking this question I gave you an example that I gave today in the class Sita was attacked nobody asked what karma what the question was what was the karma there were so many protectors of the law so many protectors of Sita