Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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INTRODUCTION
force which applies the energy of the desire. Will is cold and steely - desire is glowing with heat and fire.
All the same, desire requires to be directly controlled and submitted to the judgment of reason and control of the Will.
All mental states have their preceding causes and reason. "All desires emerge from sub-conscious region either in the sense of being reproduction of some emotion, or feeling previously experienced and brought into the field of consciousness as a memory, or else in the sense of being a response of the stored up impressions brought into activity in response to the appearance of some outside thing which awakens the latent forces. "In both the cases, Desire emerges from the sub-conscious mind and is a phenomenon of that region of the mind." The Desire is connected on one side with the feeling and emotional phase of mentation and on the other with the phase of volition or Will, "A desire must always have as its basis some antecedent feeling or emotion, and at the same time some antecedent experience, either racial or individual." One never desires a thing unless he has some subconscious experience of feeling; and moreover this expression presupposes some antecedent knowledge of the thing desired. Here we may state what Indian Philosophy says on the point. According to it the sequence is expressed in three words: starfa, gefa, aa-One knows, desires and strives for an object). 'Desires grow by the amount of attention and interest bestowed upon them; and wither and decay in proportion that the attention and interest are withheld from them.” Compare the following from Manu-Smriti II Adhyāya;
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हविषा कृष्णवमेव भूय एवाभिवर्धते ॥" Desire is never calmed by the enjoyment of the objects of desire; it only grows stronger like fire (fed) by oblations.
TRIPLE KEY OF SUCCESS The triple key of Attainment is (1) Desire a thing most in