Faith Knowledge and Conduct

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

Page 84

THE TRUTH
hopes, and the like, in which their causation is to be sought. Depression, unlike the delight of freedom, is thus always caused by ideas. Freedom, that is to say, delight is quite independent of all ideas, and is a pure emotion or feeling:
It should be noted that the message of success may be couched in the rudest language; its style may be the most offensive to the ear, the material on which it is written may be the filthiest bit of a rag, the ink may be dirty and unsightly, the man who delivers it may himself be the most abject looking and objectionable in the whole world, but notwithstanding all this, the feeling of joy will arise in the heart the moment credence is attached to the intimation by the mind. This is because the eye, which takes delight in the sight of beautiful things and is disgusted with ugliness and dirt and filth, is not the seat of joy. It can only give rise to sensations, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant ones. The ear is similarly not concerned in the generation of the feeling of joy, though it is the medium for the passage of sounds whereby the intimation of success is communicated to the soul. The characteristic of the ear is that it delights to hear soft, musical, melodious, silvery sounds, and is offended by harsh, croaky, and jarring tones. But the voice that communicates the news of one's success may be the croakiest, its tones may be the harshest, its pitch irritating in the extreme, yet,