Depression of Success🔗

There is an important phrase that needs to be understood: 'depression of success' or the depression induced by success.

If through objects, fulfillment can be achieved what is the need for spirituality? But always I have seen, around the age of forty or forty five, everybody faces the depression of success. If you are not facing, something is wrong with you! Depression of success means you achieve what you want to achieve but you have not achieved what for you want to achieve. And suddenly that emptiness erupts.

There are three ways to face this depression of success. The first option is addiction. Addiction does not only mean alcohol or drugs. Even addiction to television, addiction to food, these things are all also addiction. Some people pour and fill their emptiness, some people dump and fill, that's all!

The other path is suicide. Not only straightaway dying, but living as 'living dead'. Just dragging, living dry, dull, dead, even that is a kind of suicide.

The third path is very intelligent that very few people take: meditation, seeking. Majority of the people take up addiction, few people take up suicide or just dragging. Very few people take up the intelligent path of seeking and meditation. So please understand, just through objects fulfillment can never be achieved.

I am not saying, objects are wrong. No! Objects are fine. Have your car, have your house, have your fridge, but understand their limitations. Don't expect them to give you fulfillment. Have your house, have your wife, have your husband, have your family, but don't expect that they themselves can give you fulfillment.

All our problem is we expect too much. If it is an object, at least you can't fight with it. If it is a person, you start fighting. Just through outer world objects or persons, fulfillment can never be achieved.