UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS … Swami Tejomayananda - 8

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8. These seminars are all well and good, but when it comes to our

everyday life it is a different story! Even while learning about the

Absolute Reality in Vedanta, people tell me that they again come back

to the so-called solid reality of the world. This " solid reality " of

the world obliterates even the Absolute Reality! Why? Because our

negative emotions are still there; this is a fact. Suppose we don't

like a certain person and constantly remind ourselves, " I will try to

like them! " Try to like means we should try our very best to please

this person and to be positive. We may try again and again but if the

other person does not reciprocate then we eventually give up.

 

We separate our thoughts into positive and negative and then want to

eliminate the negative and cultivate the positive emotions. We are

told, " Fill your heart with love! " But the problem still remains.

Because we have already divided this world into good and bad, beautiful

and ugly; we have categorized people into friends or enemies. And as

long as we continue to divide, our problems, conflicts and struggles

will remain.