Sadhguru answers a question from an engineering student frustrated with his exams: “Frustration, discouragement, and depression are a continuous process. Once you get frustrated, you will get discouraged. Once you get discouraged, you will get depressed… So how do you drop frustration? Don’t buy it! You don’t have to drop it because life – every life – is enthusiasm.”
Sadhguru回答了一位工程学学生对他的考试感到沮丧的问题：“挫折，灰心和抑郁是一个持续的过程。一旦你感到沮丧，你会感到灰心。一旦你感到沮丧，你会感到沮丧......那么你怎么会失望？不要买它！你不必放弃它，因为生命 - 每一次生命 - 都是热情。”
Q: I have been trying to clear the engineering entrance exam but have already failed twice. I have become very frustrated and am unable to come out of it.
问：我最近一直在努力准备工程师入学考试，但是我考了两次都没通过。我很沮丧，不知道如何克服。
Sadhguru: Frustration, discouragement, and depression are a continuous process. Once you get frustrated, you will get discouraged. Once you get discouraged, you will get depressed. Let me tell you a story. The devil decided to go out of business, so he put all the instruments of his business on sale. There was anger, lust, greed, jealousy, passion for wealth, ego – he put up everything for sale, and people bought them all. But then somebody noticed that he still had something in his bag. So they asked him, “What is it that you have got?” The devil said, “These are my most effective tools. I am not putting these for sale, just in case I decide to get back into business. And above all, even if I put them on sale, they will be too expensive, as they are the best instruments of my work to somehow destroy life.” People asked, “Tell us what they are!” The devil said, “Discouragement and depression.”
萨古鲁：沮丧、气馁、抑郁，都是一个连续的过程。一旦你变得沮丧，就会感到气馁，一旦气馁，你就会抑郁。我来给你讲个故事。有一天，魔鬼决定做生意卖东西，他把他所有的商品都摆起来出售，有愤怒、欲望、贪婪、嫉妒、敛财欲、自私——他出售这一切，然后人们全买下来了。但是有人注意到，魔鬼的袋子里还有些东西。人们问他：“你那里还有什么？”魔鬼答道：“是些最有效的工具。这些我不卖，万一有一天我决定重新做生意，还用得着。再说，即便我把这些拿来卖，也是非常贵的，这些是我用来摧毁生命的绝佳工具。”人们问：“告诉我们那些都是什么！”魔鬼说：“气馁和抑郁。”
Frustration, discouragement and depression only mean that you are working against your own life.
挫折，沮丧和压抑只意味着你正在反对自己的生活。
Once there is no enthusiasm, once there is depression in you, there is no possibility of life. When you say “I am getting frustrated with something,” you are not far away from discouragement and depression – frustration is the first step.
一旦失去热情，一旦感到沮丧，生命就没有了可能性。你说“某件事让我沮丧”的时候，你离气馁和抑郁已经不远了——沮丧是第一步。
So how do you drop frustration? Don’t buy it! You don’t have to drop it because life – every life – is enthusiasm. Just see, the very way an ant is moving about. If you try to stop him, does he ever get frustrated or discouraged? Till he falls dead he will make his effort. Look at the little plants. Even if you put one little plant on top of the roof and just give it a little mud and nothing else, it will put one root down twenty-five metres all the way to the ground. Do you think the plant ever gets frustrated? Life energy knows no frustration. It is a limited mind which knows frustration, because the limited mind works out of false expectations. When your expectations are not in line with life as such, when your expectations are fanciful psychology and not life phenomena, then when the expectation does not get fulfilled, the mind feels this is the end of the world.
那么，你如何摆脱沮丧呢？别买它就行了。你不必摆脱它，因为生命——每一个生命——就是激情。你去观察一下一只蚂蚁搬东西的方式，如果你试着挡他的路，他有没有感到沮丧或气馁？他会一直努力前行直到死亡。看看那些小小的植物。即便你把一颗小小的植物放在屋顶上，只给它一点点泥土，其他什么都不给，它也会在离地25米的地方伸展根须，把根扎到地里。你觉得这棵植物感到沮丧过吗？生命能量不知何为沮丧。只有受局限的头脑才会沮丧，因为受限的头脑总怀着错误的期待。当你的期待与生命不符，当你的期待只是美妙的想象，而非生命现象时，如果这些期待不能实现，头脑就会觉得世界末日到了。
When people fail their examination, many of them commit suicide, isn’t it? Because they feel without this, it is the end of the world. All the people whom you worship – Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus – they never passed any examination. Why do you worship them? To pass your examination, you are calling upon people who never cared to pass an examination. It doesn’t make sense.
很多人因为不能通过考试而自杀，对吗？因为他们觉得不能通过，就是世界末日。你敬拜的所有人——罗摩，克利须那，佛陀，耶稣——他们从未通过考试，你为何还敬拜他们呢？为了通过考试，你去求拜这些从不关心考试能不能通过的人，这很不合理。
Only because you have frozen your intelligence, there is room for depression.
只是因为你冻结了你的智力，才有了抑郁症的空间。
So not passing your examination doesn’t mean anything. You want to pass because of a social requirement, that is different. But you getting frustrated is a purely psychological phenomenon, not a life phenomenon. When you are frustrated and the mind is saying “There is no good living, let me die,” just close your mouth, hold your nose for two minutes and see, the life within you says, “Let me live.”
所以，不能通过考试根本不能代表什么。你因为社会生活的要求而想通过考试，这是不一样的。但是你感到沮丧，这只是一种纯粹的心理现象，而非生命现象。你感到沮丧时，你的头脑在说：“活着没什么意思，让我死吧。”你只要闭上嘴，屏气2分钟，就会发现，你内在的生命在说：“让我活着！”
Anything that you do against your own life is simple ignorance and stupidity. Only a fool works against his own life. But right now you have gotten yourself into a mental state where you are working against your own life. Frustration, discouragement and depression only mean that you are working against your own life. Only if you are being stupid will you ever get depressed. If you are intelligent how would you be depressed? Only because you have frozen your intelligence, there is room for depression. Otherwise there is no question of depression or frustration.
你背离生命而做的事，都只是无知和愚蠢。只有傻瓜才会和他自己的生命对着干。但是现在，你就让自己陷入一种和自己的生命背离的精神状态。沮丧，气馁和抑郁只意味着你和你的生命在背道而驰。只有傻瓜才会感到沮丧。如果你有智能，你怎么会沮丧呢？只是因为你把自己的智能冻结起来，你让沮丧有机可乘。要不然，根本就不会存在抑郁或者沮丧。
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