The Balancing Act!

When ever I had the opportunity to hear a lecture or a talk by a spiritual Master, I know I can look forward to ‘out-of-ordinary-questions’ from the audience. All that matters is that the time-slot permits for such questions!

So, that is where my fascination to deal with such questions finds its roots!

The question and my answer to it seems to hardly need any further elaboration.

I take courage to put it across to you is from the fact that the asker finds a ‘logical’ appeal in it. That, is something special, especially since the question is about emotions!

All I can assure you is that reading this, may not at all cause a burden on you to exert yourself to ‘balance’ the ‘disproportionate’ movement, (if any at all ,) within!

Regards,
Psn(17th November, 2009)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115181204AAGRN7E

The question:
Are our feelings and emotions 'disproportionate' to our 'capability'?
Why are we often OVERWHELMED by our feelings and emotions?

My answer:
It is just because our logic incessantly attempts to contain our emotions.We try to hold back our tears, to LOGICALLY appear appropriate amidst 'decent' folks!We try to suppress our laughter to logically suit the occasion of a condolence meeting or so, where the laughter-evoking-situation had occurred naturally or inadvertently.We try to suppress our fear to logically disallow the adversary a better advantage of foretelling our conceding of defeat at the other's hands!We try to conceal our jealousy, intolerance, hatred, Resistance to avoid getting revealed, thus maintaining that 'generous' gentlemanly look!We suppress our excitement/eagerness/anxiety in a shop when we discover that the shopkeeper has just the very same item we want to buy, so that we can logically retain our negotiating power to bargain as if we are "not that much interested to buy, unless he gives a discount or so"
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And, there are times, when we logically assess ourselves to be reasonably calm, and are surprised at a surge of emotion, trying to manifest itself like some sudden tsunami wave, which does take us by surprise! After all, logic takes sequential time to build up analytically and arrive at a result, where as emotion is ever-logic-defying and often abrupt, if the perception is deep enough and alert!