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in relieving the suffering which still, so long as it is not wholly relieved, she shares in some degree. Or, again, the feeling of the mother who kisses away the pain of the little one's bruise. "Parting is such sweet sorrow” said a great master of the secrets of the human heart; for the pain of the lovers at parting was sweetened by the anticipation of reunion.
It reveals, no doubt, some fact regarding our emotional life. It is an established fact that there are certain states in our experience in which pleasure and pain are blended together. Nevertheless, if we analyse these states, we would be convinced that a mixed feeling is not one feeling but more than that. In such a feeling, either pleasure is followed by pain or pain by pleasure. It is not that both of them arise together. Besides, one of the two dominates the other. The Jaina thinker's contention is that both of them cannot emerge simultaneously. He does not hesitate to admit that one of the two can follow the other immediately after its emergence. The only point he wants to emphasise is that the emergence of two antagonistic feelings cannot synchronise. From this perspective it has been asserted that pleasure and pain are antagonists and cannot co-exist. The emergence of one is necessarily conditioned by the absence of the emergence of the other. In other words, pleasure and pain cannot arise at the same time. As regards their existence in potentia, however, both of them co-exist until and unless one of them is totally annihilated. This finishes our discussion of the problem of sense-feeling. Now, let us proceed to the nature of various emotions that are produced owing to the rise of the deluding (mohanīya) karma.
NATURE OF EMOTIONS Whereas a sense-feeling is simple in nature, an emotion is complex in character. It follows some mental excitement and is usually coloured with pleasure or pain. Sometimes it is aroused by mere
1 Outlines of Psychology, pp. 348-9. 2 Udayasthānāmapi eham, tadyathā sātamasūtar vå,
dvayoryugapadudayābhāvāt parasparaviruddhatvāt.
Karma-grantha, VI; p. 159. 3 Ibid.
