HARMONY WITHIN: DEEPENING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH UPANISADIC TEACHINGS

Being ‘emotional’ and ‘intelligent’ at the concomitantly is no more paradox since the filed of psychology has disentombed the various palpable areas equivocating the human wellness. The mention of herbs as ‘acupuncture’ in ancient China for ‘emotional therapy’ to the critical trials to tackle the mental disorder in the beginning of 20th century, the common occurring factor is the consistent grave efforts to bring out the elucidation for the complete emotional or mental permanence. The present paper tries to encapsulates initially the evolution of mankind and then moves forward to different phenomena meander round the ‘intelligence’ The researchers have skimmed over the social intelligence, cultural quotient before contemplating over the emotional intelligence and measures and methods that are availed for ‘emotional regulation’. Despite the recent flowering of reason, evolution has left us a cognitive structure with two ways of thinking, one emotional and the other rational. The later half is dedicated to the teachings of Upaniṣad where efforts are made to find out the remedies to administer the emotions while parsing out the inner structure module in the light of the upaniṣadic wisdom.