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6-8. Liking, Disliking, hatred
9. Fear
(phobia)
10. Sorrow or grief
11-13. Libido (or sex-desire)
8.
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surplus energy
human instinct,
inheritance,
deluding karma,
feeling of love, hate
escapist trend,
security danger, threatening, sudden
noises etc.
Painful incidents,
karmic origin
innate instinct, karmic origin
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seven kinds
(a) Liking is antagonistic to disliking and disgust.
(b) Laughter/Joking is antagonistic to sorrow.
(c) The three libidoes are antagonistic to each other.
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satisfaction, pleasure, pain, sympathy
On looking at the nine a-passions, there are some which are antagonistic to each other as below:
withdrawal, flight,
terror, anxiety, mental state of crying,
weeping, trembling
crying, weeping, lying in despair
The three libidoes are
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compared to straw, wood and dung fires.
One can not occur in presence of the other. It is the psychic libido which is indended here. The physical libido is due to the realisation of physique making karma and not due to deluding karma. In contrast, there are some synchronising emotions like
(a)
(b)
Laughter and liking can synchronise. Fear and disgust can synchronise. Disliking and sorrow can synchronise.
(c)
9. Mehta has suggested that there should be some more synchronising and antagonistic a-passions in the list such as
(a) Sympathy should have been added seperately alongwith liking or love (synchronising)
(b)
Hope should have been added as antagonistic of fear.
10. Mehta has also pointed out that psychologically, there does not seem to be any fundamental difference between the a-passion of disliking and disgust except that the disgust may be a developed stage of disliking. Disliking has a negative attitude opposed to liking. In contrast, can we say what attitude is there in disgust and what is apposed to it? Had disgust been an independent emotion, its opposite emotion must have been there.
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