Emotion

by Sadhguru

If you use your mind to transcend your limitations, we call this gnana yoga. If you use your emotion to transcend limitations, we call this bhakti yoga. If you use your body to transcend limitations, we call this karma yoga. If you use your energies to transcend limitations, we call this kriya yoga.

If you have not known sadness, you will not mature. Only if you have known sadness and pain are you a mature person. Otherwise you will never understand what is happening with you, nor will you understand what is happening with anyone else around you.

Depression means somewhere, a certain hopelessness has set in.

Once this fear is gone, life takes on a completely different dimension. If the fear of “What will happen to me?” exists within you, you will only take half steps, never really full steps.

The very process of liberation is to include, not exclude.

At work and at home, would you like to live with angry people, or peaceful and joyful people? Obviously you would want to live with peaceful and joyous people. Please remember, everyone around you is expecting the same thing.

when you get attached to your own body, thoughts, and emotions, you become so limited. When you get attached to your own likes and dislikes, you become even more limited.

Awareness is simply impossible once you get trapped in likes and dislikes.

Only a miserable person is constantly thinking about somebody exploiting him.

When you are in love, everything becomes beautiful. If only one person has become beautiful for you, there is no love in you. It is only lust wanting to express itself decently.

When you go to the temple, church, mosque or some other such place, people call it devotion. But if you decipher and look at it, there is rarely any devotion. I wouldn’t say no one is devoted – definitely some people are – but generally, once again it is a transaction. You do whatever God is supposed to be expecting you to do, and then God is supposed to do many other things for you.

the love affair is such that you are not expecting anything from the other side. Not even a response.