Self control of emotions
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It is very necessary to have self control over emotions if one wants to maintain awakened sense of discretion ( વિવેક શક્તિ ) in one's life. Emotions loose its strength if it is expressed according to one's desires and is useless in our work of self development. Sometimes this uncontrolled emotions can make one's life miserable and unbearable. At times these emotions can be very pleasurable and then one is swept away in this flood of happy emotions. But the knowledge and awareness that this ( being swept away in happy or sad emotions ) is not our goal, does not occur without this sense of discretion.
These emotions are useful in our life only if we strengthen them by self control. Before training our emotions, we need to develop the habit of turning them into appropriate work and activity. It is not possible to train life energy like emotions without containing them. It is essential to contain the emotion before we train them. Self control is the containment of these emotions.
Emotions is a divine energy that initiates, warns and increases our strength in life experiences ( if used in right manner ). This short lived flow of emotions produces increasing sense of purpose ( bhaavna, ભાવના ) and that in turn gets stronger and stronger. In this fashion emotions are at the root of bhaavna. Flow of emotions that arise out of purity is always well directed and only that can strengthen the real sense of purpose.
We get divine energy without much effort if we can keep continuous awareness ( with knowledge ), when emotions arise from incidents that we hear, see or experience in our life.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan murm (જીવન મર્મ )
Edition 1; pages 27-29.
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It is very necessary to have self control over emotions if one wants to maintain awakened sense of discretion ( વિવેક શક્તિ ) in one's life. Emotions loose its strength if it is expressed according to one's desires and is useless in our work of self development. Sometimes this uncontrolled emotions can make one's life miserable and unbearable. At times these emotions can be very pleasurable and then one is swept away in this flood of happy emotions. But the knowledge and awareness that this ( being swept away in happy or sad emotions ) is not our goal, does not occur without this sense of discretion.
These emotions are useful in our life only if we strengthen them by self control. Before training our emotions, we need to develop the habit of turning them into appropriate work and activity. It is not possible to train life energy like emotions without containing them. It is essential to contain the emotion before we train them. Self control is the containment of these emotions.
Emotions is a divine energy that initiates, warns and increases our strength in life experiences ( if used in right manner ). This short lived flow of emotions produces increasing sense of purpose ( bhaavna, ભાવના ) and that in turn gets stronger and stronger. In this fashion emotions are at the root of bhaavna. Flow of emotions that arise out of purity is always well directed and only that can strengthen the real sense of purpose.
We get divine energy without much effort if we can keep continuous awareness ( with knowledge ), when emotions arise from incidents that we hear, see or experience in our life.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan murm (જીવન મર્મ )
Edition 1; pages 27-29.
