Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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The following tabulated statement will show a few of the traits of character the above emotions, or feelings, give rise to :
Reverence.
(Obedience.
Fear.
Truthfulness.
Trustfulness.
Loyalty.
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
Love,
Love (attraction).
í Confidence.
Candour.
Contentment.
Anger.
(Honesty.
Hatred (repulsion).
(Fury.
Servility.
Lying.
Treachery.
Rebelliousness.
Exactingness.
Now, the rule of the correspondence of emotions is that they ordinarily tend to excite similar emotions amongst others. Every emotion produces in the mind of the man excited a characteristic vibration, and this vibration tends to set up similar vibrations in the minds of all others who happen to be in his vicinity, setting up like emotions in them. This kind of susceptibility, however, mostly depends on the character of the person to be affected, for,
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"if the latter person has a peculiar individuality of his own, then, instead of allowing himself to be governed by the conditions set up by the other, he will meet them with others, and stronger ones, created by himself, and so change the former's mood, instead of being changed by it; that is to say, for example, if the vibrations of anger
Misunderstanding.
Benevolence.
Unkindness.
Moroseness.
Pride.
(Holiness.
Tenderness.
Charity.
Toleration.
* In proof of this statement of ours we may cite the universally observed fact that the cheerful company of young persons dispels the gloom of moroseness and sorrow, while the society of those in extreme grief acts as a damper on all who come in contact with them.
(Hypocrisy.
Malignity.
Prudery.