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Gommatsara, Jiva-kand
135 life is continued. An angry thought, a noble impulse, the passion of patriotism, and infinity of movements of body, speech and mind produce almost visible changes in matter. There is a constant circulation, action, and reaction between these outward acts and the inner consciousnessvibrations of which the external vibrations are the cause.
Our speech, or thoughts may be true or false, a mixture of both or neither.
is gives us eight kinds. Our body has several inter-penetrating sheaths of the outer body, electric and the karmic body. Their activity can be distinguished in no less than seven ways. Thus the vibration-quest gives us fifteen main kinds.
5. Three Sex-inclinations (Veda) Every soul has the instinct of propagation. Life reproduces itself. This is due to sex-impulse. This takes three well-known forms ---male, female, or common. We can search soul in these three sex distinctions.
6. Twenty-five Passions (Kashaya) As soon as we take up any manifestation of the consciousness, volition of à soul, we can easily trace it to some passion or other in the consciousness. If we observe and analyse many of these manifestations, we find that they are due to the four passions of anger, pride, deceit, and greed, or their combinations. Again it is noticeable that there are innumerable degrees of each one of these passions. Take anger. It may be so intense as to blind one and to last a long, long time. It may possess one in an extreme and erroneous form. It may only mean a loss of all restraint. It may prevent only partial restraint. Or it may be a transient feeling, which may distrub the perfect equanirnity of the soul for a moment. Froin these four broad degrees, we may say the four passios to be of sixteen kinds. Other minor passions are also noticeable, e.g, laughter (hásya), indulgence (rati), ennui (arati), sorrow (soka), fear (bhaya), disgust (jugupsá) and the masculine, feminine and common sex inclinations. This quest may be called the passion-quest.
7. Eight Quests of knowledge (Jnana) Knowledge has been considered above in its five right kinds of sensitive, scriptural, visual, mental, and perfect; and three wrong kinds of sensitive, scriptural and visual.
These eight kinds give the eight quests of knowledge.
8. Six Controls (Samyama) Some souls have no control at all. Others have some sort of part control, part non-control. Some have more control than others. They have
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