Jainism and World Problems

SR No.: 006708
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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THE FIVE LABDHIS
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his having sides or aspects, which he will be likely to personify separately. Then in case of clashing sentiments, he will be prone to describe an action of his that is in conformity with his normal character as his own, and one of the opposite type as the prompting of the "other one." The "other one" when evil-prompting is termed Devil in the mystic literature; and pious devotees, amongst Muhammadans especially, are in the habit of ascribing all base longings of their hearts as the promptings of the Evil One. Under the influence of fear also some persons, especially young adolescent girls in India, deem themselves to be possessed by malignant spirits, and are terrified. Strange phenomena of dual personality are witnessed then. Yet it is ofly their own thought that has laid hold of their consciousness; no orie from the outside.
The separately personified sentimental groupings are all able to work with the whole of the emotional outfit of the ego, and are really only seeiningly separate, being all rooted in the unitary force of Will ; but it is possible to curtail and liinit the range of the activities of any of them by suggestion and auto-suggestion, Sometimes there is a magnifying of the functions of the control,' when strange and queer phenomena occur. If the split up personalities both have generally co-extensive functions, it will give us all the phenomena of co-consciousness, without proving the existence of more than one soul, abiding in one organism and consciously carrying on the work of life.
It should be remembered that certain melancholics are amenable to suggestion, and readily fall in with any view that is suggested even indirectly. They readily proceed to a full elaboration of the suggested idea, in every possible way, in their imagination. Knowing the necessity for a full mental equipment for a deliberating soul, we cau only say that only one such soul can occupy one body, though there be a number of them in the lowest organisms that are denied the higher life of the animal and man. It would seem that the