When feelings surge in your mind and body, be careful and pay attention! This is the moment when you lose the plot. The initial surge of energy that a feeling has is beyond your consciousness and control; it is determined mostly by your conditioning and partly by your genes. So, don't add conscious energy to the unconscious uprising. The most important mark of a wise man is that he does not live by feelings.
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Questioner: Nowadays, whenever I feel that I should not do something, I don't do it. I'm not planning much, and this includes me not offering prayers to God. Is this okay?
Acharya Prashant: Arun (Questioner), that which we call a feeling is not really so internal that it deserves to be heartfully followed. You're saying, these days you don't offer prayers to God when you don't feel like it. These days you don't bow down to God. I don't know much about that, but what is certain is that you do bow down to feelings. So, you might not be offering prayers to God, but you are praying to feelings.
Who is God? The one worthy of being surrendered to. If you choose to be dictated by the ebb and flow of feelings, emotions, instincts, and intuitions, then feelings are your God. You might even feel like playing, some other time in a different mood, and then you might indeed pray. Even then, your prayer is subservient to your feelings. You prayed only because you first felt like praying.
