To Avoid Emotional Extremes Center Your Emotions On The Eternal Not The ExternalGita 02.70

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Thank you To avoid emotional extremes centre your emotions on the eternal not the external we are sometimes prone to emotional extremes whereby we are mood swings make us sometimes elated about small things and sometimes be elated when some small good things happen and dejected when some big bad things happen when small bad things happen so at such times if we are too emotionally unstable then others can’t count on us even we can’t count on ourselves so what is the what can we do in such times one thing to consider could be that we need to relocate our emotional centre we need to begin with what is in our control and what is not and one thing that is definitely not in our control is the essence of our situation that we can’t change the external conditions that may trigger our emotions we can’t even change our inner conditioning so quickly which make us prone to such mood swings but as the Gita stresses we are spiritual beings beyond our conditions and conditionings and that means it is possible for us to to ground our emotions in who we are and more importantly in whom we are so if we turn towards Krishna and absorb ourselves in Krishna understanding that we are souls and he is the whole whose parts we are then that expands our consciousness the location of our consciousness is determined primarily by the location of our attachments if we are attached to Krishna we move toward him rapidly we become grounded in him steadily we move means our consciousness finds Krishna as his default home and Krishna is vast like an ocean worldly things are small like a puddle so when we are attached to worldly things worldly events which are like worldly upheavals which are like rivers can disrupt us disorient, discombobulate devastate us devastate us but if you are attached to Krishna then it’s like worldly upheavals are like rivers flowing into an ocean we are that influenced because we realize that we at our core are spiritual and that realization even if it is not fully there, just practicing bhakti yoga and connecting ourselves with Krishna gives us glimpses of that realization that itself is sufficient for us to ground ourselves so by relocating our emotional center to Krishna to the eternal instead of the external we can ground ourselves and avoid emotional extremes thank you