What is Emotional Intelligence?
What are emotions?
Emotional Intelligence, is the ability to handle once emotions, and also able to be understand others emotions and respond (not react) according to the actual requirement of any situation based upon the understanding of others emotions so that social responsibility and inter-relationships gets enhanced.
What are emotions?
Emotions are technically neuro-transmitted signals or colloquially called as feelings that are generated by the inner tendencies after evaluation of the signals received by the five senses.
In Sanskrit the inner tendencies are called as अन्तःकरण antaḥkaraṇa . These are mind (मनस् manas ), intellect ( बुद्धि buddhi), ego (अहम्कार् ahamkār) and impression (चित्तम् cittam).
What are five senses?
The five senses are: sound (शब्द śabda ), touch (स्पर्श sparśa), form ( रूप rūpa), taste (रस rasa), smell ( गन्ध gandha).
The śārīrakopaniṣat शारीरकोपनिषत् verse 8 says:
शब्दः स्पर्शश्च रूपं च रसो गन्धस्तथैव च ।
त्रयोविंशतिरेतानि तत्त्वानि प्रकृतानि तु ।
चतुर्विंशतिरव्यक्तं प्रधानं पुरुषः परः ॥ ८॥
śabdaḥ sparśaśca rūpaṁ ca raso gandhastathaiva ca |
trayoviṁśatiretāni tattvāni prakṛtāni tu |
caturviṁśatiravyaktaṁ pradhānaṁ puruṣaḥ paraḥ || 8||
With the five subtle elements / tanmātras: shabda/sound, sparsha/sense of touch, rupa/form, rasa/taste and gandha/smell the total become 23 and in these 23 ways the prakriti is manifested or expressed itself. When we include the chittam into this then it becomes 24. With the Purusha or the avyakta (the unmanifested One) as the prime included all of it becomes 25 (see Figure-6).
Know that the manifestation of jiva expresses with the help of 24 primordial qualities with Purusha or the avyakta (the unmanifested One) as prime.
- Four: Manas/mind, buddhi/intellect, ahaṁkāra/ego, chittam/impression (4)
- Five elements of nature/ pancha bhutas: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and ākāśa/Ether (9)
- Five subtle elements / tanmātras: shabda/sound, sparsha/sense of touch, rupa/form, rasa/taste and gandha/smell (14)
- Five Organs of Perception or pancha Jnanendriyas: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, and Body/skin (19)
- Five Organs of Action or pancha Karmendriyas: Hands, Legs, Vocal apparatus, Urino-genital organs, and Anus. (24)
- Purusha/avyakta (25)
The amarkosha says kṣetrajña ātmā puruṣaḥ pradhānaṁ prakṛtiḥ striyām क्षेत्रज्ञ आत्मा पुरुषः प्रधानं प्रकृतिः स्त्रियाम् (1.4.310) - The conscious principle in the corporeal frame is ātmā; the Supreme being or the Soul of the Universe is the pre-eminent one and the fundamental one; and the Nature is the original producer of the material world.
