Emotional Balance

”Absorption in Me through intelligence constitutes equanimity (emotional balance).”

śamaḥ mat-niṣţhatā buddheḥ 

(Bhāgavata Purāņa 11.19.36)

Consider the luminaries in the sky – the moon, the sun, the stars. When they are reflected in liquids like water they appear to be of different shapes - sometimes round, sometimes long, sometimes unsteady and shaky - all due to the movements of the wind. Similarly when we, the dazzling self of pure consciousness, are focused and preoccupied with the emotional alterations of the mind we feel carried away by its ups and downs, while in fact we stand ever unaffected and steady in our true essence. If we don't have a superior engagement, a higher grounding, we get dragged into the inner turmoil and lose our equilibrium. To become aloof to this neverending rise and fall requires spiritual absorption. When we abide in the Supreme, the divine presence, we are able to experience any emotion without getting lost in it.