According to the teachings of Yogananda - Feeling and Emotion are NOT the same.
Emotion is a grasping to what's outside of you - It is the use of feelings, pushed downward.
Feeling is like fuel. It can propel motion downward or upwards. By directing feelings inward and up - feelings can conquer emotions.
It's important to feel... Repression is not the teaching here. Sometimes people mistake the spiritual life as a life of repression. But we are not to repress. In fact it's better to express an emotion then to repress it.
Again - the way to overcome emotion is not to repress it, but to direct feeling upwards and inwards.
From the Inner Peace course at Ananda:
Emotion is a grasping to what's outside of you - It is the use of feelings, pushed downward.
Feeling is like fuel. It can propel motion downward or upwards. By directing feelings inward and up - feelings can conquer emotions.
It's important to feel... Repression is not the teaching here. Sometimes people mistake the spiritual life as a life of repression. But we are not to repress. In fact it's better to express an emotion then to repress it.
Again - the way to overcome emotion is not to repress it, but to direct feeling upwards and inwards.
From the Inner Peace course at Ananda:
Emotions are what bind us to this world. If you learn to handle and use emotions in the right way, you can get out of emotionalism, and into calm feeling. Through calm feeling you can release yourself from the bondage of materialistic desire.
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