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whether pleasure or pain, is real and positive. To call either of the two negative is meaningless. Even illusory or imaginary joy is real joy." The Jaina also holds the same view. He says that the feeling of both pleasure and pain is due to the realisation (udaya) of the feeling-producing karma.2 The rise of karma which is accounted for the feeling of pleasure and pain is positive in character. The negation of feeling is the absence of feeling. In such a state, there is neither pleasure nor pain. This is a natural state of consciousness which is neither pleasurable nor painful. It is due to the destruction (ksaya) and not the rise of karmic matter. TYPES OF SENSE-FEELING
Evidently, sense-feeling is the simple feeling of pleasantness or unpleasantness accompanying a sensation, i.e., sense-perception. Hence, it has as many varieties as sensation has. The feeling of hunger, thirst, appetite, fatigue of muscles, cuts, burns, touch, movement, and the like are related to touch-sensation. Similarly, there are various feelings corresponding to the sensations of taste, smell, sight, and sound. We need not elaborate them. In modern psychology these feelings are classified into two groups: organic feelings and special feelings. Organic feelings are those corresponding to organic sensations. These include: (1) Vital or common feeling due to the total mass of organic sensations of the moment, called by Stout common sensibility. It is the general feeling of bodily well-being or its reverse. This is an extremely vague feeling which is not localisable in a particular part of the body. (2) The feelings of hunger, thirst, etc., that are vaguely localisable. (3) The feelings connected with the disordered working of internal organs and the exercise and fatigue of muscles, and the pains of cuts, burns, bruises, and sores. These are more or less localisable. Special feelings include the feelings corresponding to special sensations. These include: (1) Feelings of touch and movement; (2) Feelings of taste; (3) Feelings of smell; and (4) Feelings of sight and hearing. In the Jaina system, all the organic feelings and the feelings of touch and movement are included in tactile feelings. The rest are the same in both of them.
i Outlines of Psychology, pp. 284-7. 2 Karma-granta, I, p. 6. 3 Psychology (Dutt), pp. 237-8.
