Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

SR No.: 001615
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 686
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Canon
File Size: 12 MB

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SŪTRÀ
fch. X
Nature is qualitative, while the psychological development is quantitative. If one goes inward there is the natural psychology, if he goes outward, he reaches the natural manifestion, i.e. instinct, This instinct needs stimulus from the outside world (i.e. psycho-physical), as it is revealed in the psycho-physical phenomena according to the conditions of soul.
As already explained soul has been studied and classified from eight points of view, viz, substance (dravya), passion (kasāya), activity (yoga), consciousness (upayoga), knowledge (intāna), selfawareness (darśana), conduct (cāritra) and energy (vīrya), as they are the different forms of manifestation of soul. Physical basis of mental life
A being enters the womb with sense-organs (saiņdie) in one sense and also without these (anindie) in another. With regard to the configuration and constituting matters of the physical senseorgans (dravyendriyani) it is without them, while with regard to the faculty of cognition, i.e. psychical mind (bhāvendriya) it is endowed with sense organs.
A jīva (soul) while entering the womb is corporeal (sasarīrz) with regard to the luminous (taijas) and karmic bodies, it is noncorporeal (asarīrī) with regard to the gross physical, transformation, and translocation bodies. It is explained that when a pregnant mother sleeps, wakes up and becomes happy or unhappy, the child born in her womb also does, and feels the same emotions."
Thus psychology originates with the birth of a child in the mother's womb in course of the process of transformation of its physico-psychical matters. Sensation and Modes of stimulus of Sense-organs
Sensation in the human brain is caused by the stimulus of the five sense-objects received from outside when the sense organs come into contact with them.
This process involves the factors of discrimination assimilation, association and localization of the sense-objects and leads
i Bh8, 1, 7, 61. 16, 1, 7, 62. 3 Ib. 3, 9, 170. (Jiva Jyotiska Uddeśaka).