Directions: In this section, you have a few short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.

The inside of our always governing the outside, so for wellbeing to be complete, the whole needs to move forward in an integral way. Our emotions have a crucial role in this process. Properly channeled, they elevate us to new heights, but if distorted and downgraded, they lead us to the depths of depression, disorder, or revolt. Emotions need to be organized around our true centre to assist the whole being to expand and move forward. Sri Aurobindo termed this entity the ‘psychic being’. Emotions mirror the level of our consciousness. This consciousness is almost separated by two hemispheres. Characterized by ego, they are split between dualities. Likewise, our emotions veer harmfully from one extreme to another. The psychic being has a decisive influence on our emotions and works through harmonization. It alone can embrace and reconcile the discords of the lower hemisphere. It lifts them up and unifies everything into a state of oneness. It nurtures the higher ranges and transforms every feeling into a sense of overwhelming gratitude. When our emotions base themselves on thankfulness, we know we’re on the right path. It brings illimitable happiness and provides the perfect fuel for our growth and progress. But we need to watch disruptions arising from deep inside; we can learn to ‘catch’ our emotions. Outside disturbances will always occur,  but how we react is critical for it is the responses we catch. For that, we need to be connected and aligned to our centre.  Take anger, for instance. Anger seems spontaneous but it amounts only to habit. A spark outside might activate a deep problem that will persist. The connection to our true centre is the only way. The gap between trigger and response needs to be constantly narrowed. The true response, founded securely on the Truth, is our destination, but the present is usually different and we find ourselves playing catch-up and belatedly offering our negative patterns time and again. Unyielding persistence is required. Lastly, we need to know where our emotions come and to where they lead. We heal through knowledge. Initially, we trace them at more conscious levels. We then allow the practice to evolve.