Circumstances or situations doesn't only affect our body but affect our mind and heart by creating emotional up and downs. Many times it happens that we forget about inner world due to over absorption or indulgence in outer world. We neglect the necessities of mind and heart thus creating further serious problems. We suffer great emotional pain when someone breaks our heart by betraying, insults us or when we are lonely or frustrated. Although one may not experience physical pain due to it but it causes immense amount of mental pain which can certainly affect physical body later. When we have headache we take aspirin, when we have body ache we take rest but what about heart? How to cure and deal with heartache or emotional breakdown? Researchers have also shown that when you are hurt emotionally you are actually hurt within physical heart.
Generally when person goes through heartache he takes shelter of superficial and artificial methods which can subdue problem for sometime but not permanently. Arjuna when he saw his relatives standing against him to kill him he felt very sad, his mind overwhelmed with grief, he sat on chariot leaving his bow aside not knowing what to do. But Lord's words provided him substantial solution, cleared his confusion and prepared him to carry on with his duties.
How we can do it on our level:-
Keep your emotional world intact - others can only hurt us when we allow them to do so, as saying goes pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Just like we protect our body similarly protect emotional world too don't let anyone attack it. Lord Krishna asked Arjuna to be equipoised in all circumstances tolerating them knowing them to be temporary.
Set up relationship with supreme - Keep or protect your emotional world by strengthening it by forming relationship with God. The God is only person who knows our heart and it's need fully, He can only fulfill them. He is the one who won't betray us or cheat us at any point of time. By serving krishna, by discussing about Him one derives great satisfaction and bliss thus one finds complete emotional fulfilment and doesn't seek or need any pleasure apart from this. Thus one gets emotionally stabilised and doesn't get or feel hurt by the petty issues of this temporary world.
By Rupeshgauranga Dasa
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