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you experience depression, sit calmly and find out the cause for the depression and try to remove the cause.
The method of displacing or dislocating the negative feeling by substituting the opposite - positive feeling, is very easy - within short time, the undesirable feeling vanishes.
Even if you fail several times, continue. You will be successful after some sittings & some practice.
If there is harshness of heart, think of mercy. If there is lust, think of the advantage of celibacy. If there is miserliness, think of generosity and generous persons.
If there is Moha, think of Atmic vichara. If there is pride, think of humility. If there is hypocracy, think of frankness and its invaluable advantages. If there is jeolouscy, think of nobility. If there is timidity think of courage.
Talk very little and that, to on useful matters. In the beginning of your practice of thought control, you will experience great difficulty, you will have to wage war with them. They will struggle their level best for their own existence. They will say “we have every right to remain in this pasage of mind. We have a sole monopoly from time immemorial to occupy this area.
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