interesting... Question: What is the difference between emotions and intuition? Answer (Swami Swaroopananda): Emotions are the motive forces behind thoughts. This is how Swami Sivananda explains it. You have a thought, but a thought by itself is like a corpse. The power behind a thought is an emotion, which gives life or vitality to the thought. If the emotion is powerful, the thought also becomes very powerful. In Bhakti Yoga, in the yoga of devotion, we transmute emotion into devotion. We take the power of all of these emotions and we transform them into devotion, which is love. And this devotion is directed toward the beloved, toward the object of our meditation. Intuition is something else. Intuition is immediate knowledge. It is when you know something without the intermediary of the senses, without the intermediary of logic, without the intermediary of the thoughts, without the intermediary of the emotions. You have this knowledge without any intermediary, and the nature of this knowledge is whole. It is complete knowledge that is beyond description, a knowledge that is going to transform you. Once it touches you, you’ll never be the same, ever. This is how Swami Sivananda describes real intuition, which he says is samadhi. It is deep, deep, deep meditation that brings an immediate knowledge which is not an intellectual knowledge. This knowledge transforms us for good, and others as well.
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