Heard of cats having 9 lives? Well, as per ancient Vedic literature we have 9 emotional personalities (google 'rasas') . Now it's up to us to figure out the one or two rasas that dominate our persona.

1. Eros





2. Gelos

I couldn't find anything that compares with one of
our well known member's picture:
the blue eyed one bubbling with laughter

so we will settle for this.



3. Ira: Anger





4. Phobos



not quite right
as i didn't have a picture where the face pales, and something inside the stomach constricts, we will go along with this one


5. Disgust (or aversion)




6. Wonder (Amazement)


there were some Lucy's pictures on the net: but then it looked
exaggerated, so settling for this one



7. Compassion (Sorrow + )
with the refugee crisis, i thought we will settle for this.





8. Heroism
Heroism is misleading emotion to me, an epitome of foolishness.
So this their guy - our guy picture

their guy:


our guy:


of course if you prefer guns to the pen: switch pictures


and finally
9. Shanthi (Peace)
Not exactly an emotion - rather freedom from emotions

again a member's picture comes to mind, but as we need to stay
with the topic, we will settle for this one.


although i'll admit to being ruled by first 3 emotive, like rest of guys 9 is whom i want to date.
but the moment she finds out 'who am i' she goes into state 5.
or worse, state 4..

Except that the words Eros, Gelos and Phobos are from Greek mythology, and the word Ira is Latin in origin.

And one ring to bind them.
Presssciousss, gollum.

'flavor, essence & taste', you just increased the spin.

still on colors and moods here. Recalling way back i had this red bulb in my room during college and got into all sorts of un-intended scraps.
May be it was the prolonged exposure.

and dinner will be crunchy dried fish with pickle and wine.

alright, since you are a delicate pink
will switch tomato-ginger-garlic sauce for the pickle.

TY.
The associated Sanskrit words were tough to spell / pronounce
So as a member in here is originally Eros took liberty and then Phobos was next to Mars, took the route. Interesting you got me on Ira; i liked the sound of it; may be next time..

It appears to me that the word "emotions" is also a mistranslation.

I agree.
'emotional states'?

Considering that 9 of them have been identified as primary colors: like R,G,B; when we mix them we get a wide range of secondaries.

so 'raw emotional states'?

Would like to add that in real world, it's this palette of
secondaries we live in or with. For instance, when we hear someone
laugh we normally size it up from its tone as:
1) Hard Laugh = Anger + Mirth
2) Mocking = Disgust + Mirth
3) Forgiving laugh = Compassion + Mirth
4) Mirth + Mirth = Not a care in the world

all this to support the theory of "9 Raw Emotions".
The Sanskrit term is 'Rasas' which translates to 'juices'!!

Not sure if clinical psychology supports all this but explains
why we buy more than 2 rounds while on a date.

Yes, I think we can slice and sort ourselves in a variety of ways, and learn by doing so. I'm working right now on another similar sort of consideration, looking for the most fundamental human motivations, and trying to work out how they add and subtract from each other, to lead to the seemingly much more complicated behaviors humans exhibit.

With human emotions or emotional states, I would come up with a different list than that presented here. For example, the appearance of anger, I have seen be due to more than one different mix of more basic responses. Some anger is primarily fear energized, while other anger is aggression or greed energized. And some even appears to be a pure physiological behavior, biologically driven almost like a sort of brain seizure.

But again, I have found that it is valuable to review a number of different cultures' "sorts" of human drives, emotions, mind sets, etc, because each "sorting" can allow us to view existence from another angle, and thus gain a sense of a more inclusive understanding of ourselves.

not sure op but really digging some of those sandles ... shoes rule ...
not into yoga ... never like it ... but meditation I like ... and i loved the flower ... neon ... looking ...

A surgical dicing of emotions?

As you may be aware from a past thread, in India we do not have the
'wall' between Religion and State (Jefferson)
Probably as 'spirituality' is not quantifiable so is not an acceptable term in the courts although they rarely interfere.

or perhaps a hidden agenda to erode out cast-ism in Indian society

So once in a while when a case is foisted, instead of refining the temple traditions they risk getting diluted.

after all, most developed nations are grinding to the point where
the role of Church / Temple is gradually diminished out of our psyche.

On the other extreme-mum, although Western science has fully mapped
there is some research mentioning a search for the 'God particle' within the brain. slightly off-topic.

As most pilgrims are locked in their own world, their voice remains
unheard in courts. On these lines I have been thinking over about
hosting a one-time blog. If this interests you, then with your
comments I may have a case. (although it may not be what expected).

My view is, if the court wants to take away someone's belief
then give him something better and not leave him empty handed.
Else don't involve.
Hows-zaat

thanks for the tip.
but before meditation, would like to know the exit door.
just an opinion.

Hmm. Okay, you're going in a political direction with this now, which I wasn't expecting, and no I don't know what 'other thread' you are talking about.

For myself, I don't see the separation of church and state as "taking away someone's beliefs and giving them nothing better in return." There is actually no better PROTECTION of a person's religious beliefs, than to keep politicians from trying to adjust them, to accomplish their invariably NON spiritual goals.

If instead, you allow people to use your beliefs to "adjust" other people around you, history has shown endlessly that the invariable result, is that the day after the law is used to force your opponents to brought to heel, it will be used to put YOU in a small box, and start milking you like a prize cow.

Very powerfully stated.
Couldn't agree more.

the earlier thread was on the virtues of 'celibacy'
and even before was one on men taking pilgrimage after taking vows on abstinence and women demanding entry to temple based on 'equal rights'.

(there is after all a method in every madness (including my posts)!!)

now the traditions are being questioned in Court.
if you google Sabarimala Temple case in court
a lot of news unloads.

thanks for the insights.

Dont forget the emotion "startling shock", such as, for example, finding out suddenly that she is a he!! Not pleasant.