How to deal with emotional outbursts? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2016)

Acharya Prashant: Emotional outbursts to settled living.

What do you see in the topic itself? “Emotional outbursts to settled living.” What is happening here?

What is happening here is that the mind is desiring the movement from one place to another place. From place A to place B; emotional outbursts to settled living. What is place A?

“Emotional outbursts to settled living.” There is a journey involved in the topic itself. We are moving from A to B. What is A?

Listener: Disturbance.

AP: Disturbance; right? “Emotional outbursts”- a state of disturbance. A is where we are. B is where we want to be. You see everything about humanness is a journey. Man has been a traveler. That would be a very apt way of defining and summarizing mankind. We are travelers. In everything we do, in all our efforts, there is a sense of movement involved. We are hardly ever contended with where we are. We want to reach somewhere. We want to undertake a journey. There is some other place that we must reach.

So presently, we are saying we are disturbed, we are emotionally vulnerable. Ours is a state of emotional outbursts. And when we are there, when we experience this happening with us every day, a desire arises. The desire says, “I must be somewhere else. I do not like where I am. Where I am, that is a place of suffering. That is a place where there are these torturous emotions, all kind of complications.” Now we said that we are at place A, and place A is of emotional instability. Right? Are we together?