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07: Bhakti integrates our emotional and rational

faculties
by DECEMBER 2, 2011

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People whose emotional faculty is predominant tend to be hotheaded.
People whose rational faculty is predominant tend to be coldhearted.
Integrating both these faculties in a healthy balance is one of the greatest
challenges for leading a productive and fulfilling life.
The Bhagavad-gita (8.7) guides us toward achieving this balance when it
urges us to offer both our mind (our emotional faculty) and our intelligence
(our rational faculty) to Krishna in devotion. When we make Krishna the
center and goal of our lives, then he reciprocates with our devotional intent
by channelizing and harmonizing our emotional and rational faculties for his
service. Bhakti integrates both these faculties so as to empower us to become
coolheaded without being cold and warmhearted without being weak.

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Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krishna and
at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your
activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you
will attain Me without doubt.