Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Further, if there were real happiness in any of the things outside my being, it could only reach me through the see I only gateways of my senses, but passing through them but never happiness or joy itself. We thus see that our sensations of pleasure arise from an agreeable modification of the soul-substance, when acted upon by the properties of the things from without or from mental stimulus; and that pain. ful sensations are similarly due to a like modification, but of a disagreeable type.
Both pleasure and pain are transient, the latter being mostly the lot of living beings in this world of For even ours, aptly described as the Vale of Tears. the little pleasure that is to be had here is obtained after so much worry and trouble and is generally productive of so much suffering, both in its procurement and subsequently, that it is no exaggeration to say that it is born vin pain and ends in tears.
Fortunately, however, there is another kind of joy, available to us, but of this we are almost wholly ignorant. pure This joy consists in the natural 'pulsation' of delight (from de, a prefix of intensity, and light as des tinguished from heavy, hence, intense lightness) of the -soul, which being its very attribute becomes an inalienable asset in its hands the moment we destroy the causes that obstruct its realisation. We are all more or less familiar with the feeling of mixed light-hearted