From where are your emotions arising?

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: I have been following some of the pages on social media, and there is one topic that is quite “in” these days — which says, ‘no emotion is a mistake’. But I have heard you in the past, and you have said that emotions are intensified thoughts. So won’t that be a hindrance in understanding, when the author is…