The more we are emotional the less emotions we have and the more our emotions have us Gita 02.01

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the less emotions we have and the more our emotions have us often we think that when somebody is too emotional that means they have too many emotions and that is true at one level a more accurate description would be that they don’t have emotions, their emotions have them that means their emotions control and drive them and they are unable to function constructively effectively because of being controlled by their emotions that’s how they get into big trouble so emotions are parts of our consciousness but they can’t be the whole of our consciousness if we had no emotions then our life would be like that of emotion of robots it wouldn’t be worth living but if we just have emotions and are driven by emotions we will end up doing actions that will make our life not worth living we need to be guided by our reason by our values and ultimately by scriptural wisdom the Bhagavad Gita states that to the extent we learn to process our emotions accurately to the extent we can move forward in our life constructively so it begins by demonstrating how Arjuna was shattered and battered by his emotions that just before he was about to execute the biggest responsibility of his life fight the war that he had been preparing for lifelong he was overwhelmed by his emotions and what did he do? he just decided that he couldn’t continue it and so he switched off switched off his his obscenity emotions and turned to Krishna with whatever attention he had and Krishna guided him explained to him how he is a soul and he is a part of the whole and if he is not connected with the whole then he becomes controlled by his emotions and once we become connected with the whole then we have enough maturity and clarity to process our emotions appropriately rather than simply either expressing them or repressing them then Arjuna’s emotions became his allies instead of his adversaries the same principle applies for us if we learn to connect ourselves with Krishna and become determined to serve him then emotions won’t overwhelm us and we will be able to move forward constructively in our lives thank you re Krishna the more we consider