When we are not able to make choices in our life from a position of freedom – that is to say, freedom from the mind – the result is always uncertainty, stress and then depression.  This freedom from the mind can not be attained through the right perception of things, but through what bhagavad-gita calls vyavasyatmika buddhi resolute understanding. 

Unless one has attained this resolute understanding through the practice of sakhyibhav, the practice of being observer and objective, one is in the bondage of the mind.

– Reflection on the Bhagavad-Gita
Anirudh Shastri
April 28, 2005