Jain Journal 1981 10

SR No.: 520064
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 51
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

Page 8

OCTOBER, 1981
Anger is a normal response to frustration. When some situation, real or imaginary, unduly restricts the freedom of action of an individual, the individual loses his temper. Sometimes it takes the form of revenge and aggression. Pride is an outcome of ego-ecentricity. It is manifested in the shape of self-assertion and self-display. The intention to deceive others is the root-cause of lying. All fraudulence is due to the passion of deceit. Greed is a state of attachment arising owing to discontentment or dissatisfaction of desires and ambitions. The mainsprings of our worldly conduct are cravings produced by dissatisfaction of our desires. Anger and deceit may be taken to be two forms of emotional suffering, whereas pride and greed may be understood as two forms of happiness.
The quasi-passions are of two varieties : sexual and non-sexual. The sexual passions consist of male sex, female sex and dual sex. The dual sex is the strongest one which is comprised of both homosexuality and heterosexuality and is not of the nature of frigidity or impotency.
The non-sexual quasi-passions are six : laughter, liking, disliking, fear, sorrow and disgust. Laughter includes smiling, joking etc. These are the various forms of joy. Liking is the love for others that grows out of the pleasure or satisfaction we obtain from the presence or companionship of others. Sympathy is also included in it. Disliking is opposed to liking. Disgust is a developed state of disliking. It takes the form of hate. Fear is an insistent desire to escape. It is directed to some threatening situation, real or imaginary, with which we do not feel safe. Terror and anxiety are the forms of fear. The rapidity of increasing fear leads to
ror. The anticipatory danger produces anxiety. Fear may be of one's own class, of another class, of protection, fanciful, of pain, of death, of dishonour. Sorrow is opposed to joy. Weeping, crying and the like are the most common expressions of sorrow.
Thus, some of the above-mentioned forms of emotion constitute misery and distress, whereas the other varieties form happiness and joy. But really speaking all sense-feelings and emotions are nothing but suffering, inasmuch as they are karmic products. Real happiness, i.e. bliss, which is completely free from suffering, is experienced only in a state absolutely free from karmas. The liberated soul, and not the worldly one, is in a fit position to realise the real happiness.
We actually see that in the worldly life happiness is obtained through means like wealth etc., why then is not recommended this happiness but that which is of the form of liberation ? Liberation is recommended