If thoughts come from the intelligence and feelings from the mind then do thoughts grow into feelings?

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The thoughts come from the intelligence And emotions from the mind There are two different ways of looking at this One is what Ramavijay Arya says And what Subhash Chandra Acharya talked about How thoughts grow into feelings And then emotions We are going to have thoughts, emotions, intentions and actions And at each level it is progressed So this is the action which happens in the subtle body Before the action gets translated into the gross body So in this analytical frame Thoughts come before emotions Now we could also say that Thoughts involve more of a passive or detached observation This is happening here, this is happening here, this is like this, that is like that Emotions involve more of a personal involvement in things So if a bomb explodes in some part of the world I might have a thought about it But if a bomb explodes in my neighborhood Then the horror will be much more in my mind So you could say there is a greater investment of emotions So basically an intention means You have decided to do something So in this analysis We could say that Thoughts are at a greater distance from us Emotions are closer to us And intentions are something which have already been accepted by us So in that sense this is The progression of thoughts to emotions to intentions Is also a progression of increasing identification with that So this is one frame of analysis And this is how things happen in the subtle body Where something which is at a distance We increasingly identify with it and then we act accordingly Having said this We could say that Some people are emotional, some people are rational So some people For them, feelings come before thoughts For some people, thoughts come before feelings So for example, some people may go in front of the DTS And just immediately feel some bhava For Krishna For some others, they go and then they have to think a little bit Recite some verses Think that this is Krishna And then from that thought, the bhava comes So it’s possible that Based on one’s own psychophysical nature For some people Emotions may come before thoughts in some situations And it’s not just for some people For all of us, if we are attached to something Then when there is attachment, the emotion will come before the thought That’s the very nature of attachment And that can be for good or that can be for bad also Somebody is alcoholic and they just drink before they think And that’s bad So I would say that That chronology Of thoughts leading to feelings leading to intentions It’s more of a description of how The mechanism of the subtle body works In terms of increasing identification with a particular stimuli That comes first to the subtle body Then manifests at the gross level But each subtle body has its own characteristic And in that In some subtle bodies, the emotion may come before the thought So I would say that We can also differentiate somewhat more by saying that Thought itself can refer to different things So even in our day to day life, I got a thought That means just some idea popped into my mind Or we can say I have given this a lot of thought There when we use the word thought It means I have analysed this carefully I deliberated on this using my intelligence So the word thought itself can be used in different senses So when it is said that for some people emotions come before thoughts Or thoughts come before emotions for some people That is basically we could say that is the way their mind is shaped Mind is structured And when we say that Thoughts come before feelings Their thought is not so much referring to rational thinking Or something It is simply the appearance of stimuli in our inner world I got a thought So in that sense it comes first So there the thought has come And then the word dhyayato actually means contemplation That contemplation is in negative sense That word also if you see That contemplation equates with thought Then sangha, feeling comes afterwards Emotions are coming afterwards And then the emotions become stronger And then the cycle goes on But the key thing is that There when one is contemplating One is not really using one’s intelligence to analyse Whether this object is good for me or not That contemplation means just that object has come In our inner world And we are giving it our attention So that dhyayato is not in the sense of Conscious intelligent deliberation That is more just of a giving of attention to that So if we are using thought As referring not to just giving attention to something To just enter into our consciousness But we are referring to thought Using thought to refer to The act of conscious deliberation Then we can say thought happens at the intelligence level I wouldn’t say comes from the intelligence We could say that I am a little uncomfortable with that usage Because ultimately consciousness comes from the soul We could say a desire pops up from the mind But then the soul processes it The soul accepts it Should I take this desire or should I not take this desire So we could say The capacity for rational deliberate thinking Is present in the intelligence And if the intelligence is alert and strong We’ll use it It’s like say if I have anti-virus program in my computer If I put a pen drive in it Some anti-virus programs may get activated automatically But sometimes after I put the pen drive There might be some virus over here When I put a I activate the anti-virus program So you could say that anti-virus program is like the intelligence And the careful evaluation, the screening of what is coming in That needs to be done And that will be done By the intelligence For some people whose intelligence is very trained and alert They may do it immediately For others they may not do it immediately They have to think about it So they have to consciously activate it But still the point remains that We could say the capacity I would say that for the soul Which is spiritual Which is the source of consciousness The capacity for emotions Not just emotions in general But specific kind of emotions Which a soul experiences while being in a particular body So every animal is attracted to the opposite gender of that animal So that attraction, that is present in the mind So the capacity for experiencing emotions while we are in a body That capacity is present in the mind And the capacity for rational thought is present in the intelligence And when there is conscious perception of something And the consciousness perceives something At that time depending on the particular psychophysical nature Either the mind may get activated first Or the intelligence may get activated first And in that case you could say that Emotionality gets activated, that is coming from the mind The rationality is getting activated, that is coming from the intelligence Did I answer your question?