Spiritual-Emotion Guided Fine-Tuning of Mistral-7B for Mental Health Conversational Systems using Bhagavad Gita Knowledge

Abstract—Artificial intelligence–based conversational agents have recently gained attention as scalable solutions for mental health assistance. Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong language understanding and generation capabilities; how- ever, their responses in counseling contexts often lack emotional grounding, empathy, and philosophical reasoning required for sensitive mental health interactions. This research proposes a Spiritual-Emotion Guided Mental Health Dialogue System develo