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Fifth Stage
Jaina Karmology delta wave pattern prominent. REM Sleep, movement of body parts stop, dreaming takes place. The cycle of stages are repeated four to five times each night. Theta wave pattern in brain waves (4/7 cycles/sec.). The production of serotonin or some drugs may induce quite sleep.
Based on these stages , one can compare the two terms of sleep and deep sleeep with the third and fourth stages and drowsiness and deep drowsiness with the first and second stage. The somnambulism may form part of the fourth and fifth stage. One has to guess that drowsiness precedes light or deep sleep. Hence, the aphorismic order of the forms of sleep should be taken as popular order rather than scientific order.
As said earlier, sleeping gives us rest, relaxation and recuperation. It is a necessary process of biological life-system. It is observed that normally a person sleeps more than a third of his life span. A deep sleep is a sign of care-free-ness and recuperative physical and mental activity. It is, however, found that long sleepers are generally more introvert, less confident and escapists. Relaxation exercises reduce the sleeping hours making people more energetic, cheerful and acitve. 10. Seeing and sleeping have, thus, been studied by the scientists quite exhaustively. Their physiological and chemical causes and mechanisms indicate that these are brain - related psychic phenomena.
These processes could be controlled by physical methods. The karmas may play an indirect role here due to genetic and other factors. The current science has improved the general degree of destruction-cumsubsidence of conation-obscuring karma in many ways shown earlier.
The third primary karma of sensation or feeling producing one has not been detailed for its sub-species as yet. The next aphorism mentions about them :
SADASAD -VEDYE 8.8
There are two sub-species of feeling-producing karma : (1) pleasure feeling producing and (2) displeasure, pain or suffering feeling producing karma 8.8.
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