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Empower Your Career, Control Your Emotions || Acharya Prashant (2022)
Shakti
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Emotions
Body
Consciousness
Wisdom
Relationships
Biological Nature
Career
Prakriti
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a student's concern about how emotional disturbances and arguments with loved ones hinder her academic focus and career. He explains that relationships are often founded on the premise of invading each other's personal space, and what is perceived as a 'loved one' often involves a mutual desire to disturb and be disturbed. He posits that emotions are fundamentally biological and arise from the body rather than from wisdom or consciousness. He argues that the body, which we share with animals, has no inherent interest in intellectual pursuits, career, or spiritual growth; its primary functions are limited to biological needs like eating, sleeping, and reproduction.