Food for thought - 26.12.2021
“Bhakthi is the climax of all emotions”
General characteristics of emotions:
1.Emotions are an expression of our basic intelligence and creative energy.
2. It is an experience that represents the relation between ahamkara(ego) and the outside world.
3. Emotions are springs of action and bi polar in nature.
4. Emotions start in the mind or the manomaya kosha and influences the annamaya kosha and pranamaya kosha.
5. This emotion and its relative experience then influences the intellect or the Vignanamayakosha
All emotions spring from desires and desires are caused by the sense of imperfection or non fulfillment with one’s self. The stronger the desire, the stronger the experience will be.
For eg.
if you love someone, when they let you down there is a series of emotions
First stage is anger or krodh
You accelerate to unhappiness or dukha
Then you become Indifferent or upkesha
after which you end up with anubhava or experience.
The above reactions arise from the mind but triggered by the outside world.so the atma is the observer of all these events and it is also the non participant, hence emotions do not cross the Manomaya kosha to anandamaya kosha which covers the athma.
Hence we can say emotion is created by incidents outside the body, it senses, it feels and tries to connect since it is a maya, emotion keeps changing with the unreal world outside.
Now with the emotions dwindling the body goes into survival mode and starts its process of looking inward. It blocks senses, expression and thought and withdraws to find a new path which is opposite to the path seen earlier. This holds true for all samsara individuals.
Those who are in the path of sanyasam, skip this stage and start with the path of moving inward, so here they control senses closing the annamaya kosha (limited food consumption); control their breath thereby closing the pranamaya kosha( pranayama breathing techniques) ;meditating thereby paving way into the Manomaya kosha; introspecting moving into the Vijnanamaya kosha and then seeing theGod within in the Anandamaya kosha to experience the ultimate divine bliss. This travel/ journey called Bhakthi unto the divine which is the climax in the story of emotions isn’t it?
Sarvejana Sukinobhavanthu
Very enlightening 👌👌🙏🙏🌷