QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2023
Q: You said yoga is a cure for depression, not Prozac. I am talking about clinical depression. When people are struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, how can reach out for yoga? This may be long term, but I am unable to understand your logic.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You can through our research work. AIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) and also NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) in Bangalore, they have published papers on this. They have given all the scientific data on how Sudarshan Kriya and meditation can be substituted for medicines in case of depression and suicidal tendencies. And personally if you ask me, I have on ground experience of thousands of people coming with broken hearts, or with depressed and going back feeling much better in just five days, after doing the program.
Yes, depression is always clinical depression. It is in the mind. The clinical depressions have been treated at NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences). It is a premier institute based in Bangalore. Also AIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) recently conducted a seminar where 600 doctors presented papers on the effects of breathing techniques and meditation on various diseases, such as diabetes, cholesterol, heart conditions, depression, and many other neurological conditions.
You know, I get about seven to eight hundred emails every day where people share the healing that they have undergone. Not just in India, right from Mongolia, Japan, to Argentina. I think here in US also they have done the research in Harvard University, The University of Wisconsin and The University of Pennsylvania. Also University of Oslo has done some research. Dr. Farid from University of Oslo, who has studied genealogy has said that meditation has an impact on our genes. It is interesting. You may like to contact Professor Dr. Farid in the Oslo University.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
POSTED ON: MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2023
Q: You said yoga is a cure for depression, not Prozac. I am talking about clinical depression. When people are struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, how can reach out for yoga? This may be long term, but I am unable to understand your logic.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You can through our research work. AIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) and also NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) in Bangalore, they have published papers on this. They have given all the scientific data on how Sudarshan Kriya and meditation can be substituted for medicines in case of depression and suicidal tendencies. And personally if you ask me, I have on ground experience of thousands of people coming with broken hearts, or with depressed and going back feeling much better in just five days, after doing the program.
Yes, depression is always clinical depression. It is in the mind. The clinical depressions have been treated at NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences). It is a premier institute based in Bangalore. Also AIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) recently conducted a seminar where 600 doctors presented papers on the effects of breathing techniques and meditation on various diseases, such as diabetes, cholesterol, heart conditions, depression, and many other neurological conditions.
You know, I get about seven to eight hundred emails every day where people share the healing that they have undergone. Not just in India, right from Mongolia, Japan, to Argentina. I think here in US also they have done the research in Harvard University, The University of Wisconsin and The University of Pennsylvania. Also University of Oslo has done some research. Dr. Farid from University of Oslo, who has studied genealogy has said that meditation has an impact on our genes. It is interesting. You may like to contact Professor Dr. Farid in the Oslo University.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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