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stallion arches his thick neck, waves aloft his tail, steps high and prances proudly. The bull bellows; the lion roars; the cat caterwauls; and the young man curls his moustache, strokes his beard, raises up his voice, and displays his strength and agility in and bounds.1 Why is the male more aggressive and active and why does he usually take the initiative? The Jaina explains this in the following manner: The sexual drive in the female is like dungburning. It only glimmers until it is shaken. It is the male who performs the task of shaking it. Since the desire in the male is like a straw-fire, therefore, it blazes very soon and requires nobody to
xcite it. It is at the very outset exceedingly strong. The desire in the female is weak so long as the male does not take the initiative. To excite it, it is necessary as well as natural for the male to come forward and give the start. Thus, it is clear from the above description that both the modern psychologist and the Jaina grant the same fact as regards the nature of the rise of sexual desire in the male and the female.
As regards the causes of the binding of the various deluding karmas that generate these different types of emotions in our life, the Jaina maintains that the actions caused by the outbreak of passions produce the binding of the kaṣāya-mohanīya karmas. The actions caused by the mind confused through joking, liking, disliking, sorrow, fear, disgust, etc., produce the binding of the corresponding nokaṣāya-mohaniya karmas. Sight passionate desire, conjugal fidelity, etc., cause the binding of the karma that produces the male sex; great sensuality and the like produce that of the female sex; violent love of pleasure, strong passions directed towards sexual intercourse, and the like produce that of the third sex. It is clear from this conception of the nature of the bondage of the karma that produces an emotion that the outbreak of the corresponding emotion is the chief cause of the generation of a particular emotion. As for instance, the action caused by the outbreak of anger is the main cause of the emergence of another anger and so on. This is what we call 'like produces like'.
Now, let us take into account the problem of the existence of these emotions. How many of them co-exist and how many of them do not exist together, is the question that is to be answered.
i Outline of Psychology, pp. 159-160.
