Emotions – II ; Pujya Gurudev

Intelligence vs Emotions 

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

We can see that EQ and IQare not opposing competencies but rather separate and complementary.Comparative qualities corresponding to each are quite well known: High IQ person is productive, introvert, cautiously expressive, ambitious and detached. He is expert, talented and logical. He may be an efficient professional, executive, academician or scientist. High EQ person is cheerful,

socially - poised, committed, methodical, ethical, sympathetic, and has spontaneity and a power to cope with uncertainties. He is a great manager and leader in his chosen field of work.In practical terms, high IQ helps in fast placement whereas high EQ is necessary for top-level promotions, spontaneous inner satisfactions. It offers the key to fare better in life. Surprisingly excellent performance of many people with modest IQ in the corporate sector is the best illustration of this fact.

Rational mind is aware and thoughtful. Emotional mind is impulsive and powerful. Intuitive vision and its expression, creativity, long term planning, civilization and culture are possible through combined function of both. Education pertains to art of grasping, self-awareness, self-expression, control and cooperation, it can nurture intelligence and give directions to emotional balance but it cannot generate or mold either.

Narrow view of IQ in the early days of scientific development argued that – IQ is a genetic characteristic that cannot be changed by life experience. It would have been true if man were only a genetically governed machine. But, this confines only to the physical body and biological activities of a person. The brain functions, including hormonal secretions and activation of specific centers in the rational and emotional lobes are, as the modern research shows, natural manifestations and not originators of emotional and mental states. Then what originates, relates and evolves intelligence and emotions?

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma