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106 training factors. They are necessary for our faculty of reasoning, intelligence, behaviour and progress in life. They are basically mental in origin. These faiths may be right or wrong. It is wrong faith or wrongfulness which leads one to worldly worries. It may be in the form of inverted knowledge or ignorance. It may also have five-fold formsdeliberate, natural, absolutist, doubting and ignorancial. The faith, in general, is a realisational property. The deluding karma of wrongfulness produces wrong faith in toto. In contrast, the deluding karma of righteousness deludes right faith not completely but partially. The brain-programme of faith undergoes changes from wrong to right under a number of conditions like scriptural studies, sermons and austeritic practices etc. which are also instrumental in destruction or destructioncum-subsidence of wrong-faith and right-faith deluding karma. 5. The passions and a-passions of conduct-deluding karma represent psychological emotions and corresponding behaviour pattern under different circumstances. The emotions develop from faiths and feelings. It is said that emotions are not innate but develop out of many factors like heredity, birth, health, sex, maturity and environment etc. Emotions are strong and complex feelings stimulated by various types of stimulii. They are mostly subjective. Scholars opine that emotions incur a change in psychological and physiological activation of man. There is a two-way relationship between emotions and physiology. The emotions are related with many systems-limbic, sympathetic and parasympathetic systems of autonomous nervous system, reticular system, thalamus, hypothalamus etc. of brain which are activated as could be studied by EEG studies. These systems also play an important role in behavioural patterns of men.
Different drugs like LSD, caffeine, reserpine etc. effect emotions to still down. These drugs serve as anti-arousal factor deactivating the brain system so that the person feels tranquillity. This may be temporary but may be made lasting through meditative practices. There are some chemicals which also arouse emotions. Thus, emotions may be karmically aroused and externally aroused and controlled. Summarily, emotions may have the following gen esis: Stimulii / feeling perception hypothalamic arousal physical changes → emotion physical or behavioural activities.
Psychologists tell us that the human behaviour is related to emotions and feelings. There are said to be some basic behaviours
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| SR No. | 001654 |
| Book Title | Jaina Karmaology |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | N L Jain |
| Publisher | Parshwanath Vidyapith |
| Publication Year | 1998 |
| Total Pages | 186 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Karma, & Tattvartha Sutra |
| File Size | 11 MB |