Wk 148 – Rasas – Sadness & Joy

We are on our last pairing as a Sadhana/practice is Sadness & Joy. Underneath Fear, Disgust and Anger is Sadness. Along with Joy there is Love, Courage and Wonder. The point of these practices is to give us the emotional agility to manage the unmanageability of life. To become aware, learn, understand, accept and take skilful action so we can thrive in life. Karuna means Sadness. Sadness is a natural, healthy and common emotion or Rasa. Sadness will fade with time, however if it stays this leads to depression. We are focussing on Sadness. It is an emotional pain felt (Bhava) if we are unsuccessful at something important to us, we feel unhappy if we are disappointed. Sadness arises when we have to let go of what we are attached to. Did you have this feeling after working with anger last week? Underneath the anger of letting what you were attached to was just this heavy sadness? There is a feeling of pity, regret, feeling glum. Sadness is an expression of the pain when there is a loss or suffering, opening to the many ways to feel that as despair, grief, helplessness, sorrow, despondency, misery, melancholy. Feel this in the body. Think...