Emotion (Skt. भाव, Bhava) is a complex experience involving physiological arousal, subjective feeling, and behavioral response.

On the path of knowledge, emotions are understood as:

• Patterns of vibrations in memory

• Objects of experience, not the experiencer

• Arising and passing away in consciousness

• Not what I am - the experiencer is beyond all emotions

Emotions are part of the illusion. They appear and disappear without affecting the true self.

See also emotions.