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Bhagwat Gita as a valuable resource for dealing with mental health problems

Bharti Benkat Krishna

Online published on 20 September, 2019.

Abstract

The present paper tries to reflect upon some of the teachings of Bhagwat Gita for the attainment and maintenance of a healthy mind. Gita provides prescriptive measures as to how materially afflicted souls can alleviate behavioural disorders. It advises that one should give up the behavioural tendencies of anger, lust and greed, which it describes as the three gateways leading to hellish, or demoniac, life (Bhagavad-gita 16.21). And in the Eleventh Canto (11.7.9), Krishna instructs Uddhava that those who experience many-branched perceptual in consistencies, and are there by continuously disturbed by their own minds, should learn to see that the entire world is situated within the self and that the self is situated within the Supreme Lord. A person who is conscious and controls the senses can achieve this peaceful state of equilibrium. Gita states that by practicing the control of mind and senses and following Vedic guidelines for applying Vedic knowledge, a person will feel satisfaction and peace and become closer to all living beings.

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Keywords

Mental Health Problems, Teaching of Lord Krishna.

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