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CONCLUSION AND RECAPITULATION
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EMOTION
An emotion is a mental excitement usually coloured with pleasure or pain. All our emotions arise due to the rise of conductdeluding karma. This being the case the place of deluding-(mohaniya) karma is exceedingly significant in the Jaina doctrine of karma. This type of karma is the chief factor in determining the nature of all our emotions, attitudes, and activities. This is the reason why with the destruction of mohanīya karma our entire worldly status is shocked and ultimately extinguished. We have two varieties of emotions: strong and mild. Strong emotions are called passions and mild emotions quasi-passions. The number of passions is sixteen and that of quasi-passions is nine. What is the logical strength behind these numbers we do not know. We have no argument at our disposal to prove their exactness. We have simply followed the writers in discussing the nature and functions thereof with some critical remarks here and there.
STRONG EMOTIONS
Anger is nothing but a response to some frustration real or imaginary. It is generally expressed in the form of an impulse to break and destroy anything that comes to hand. Sometimes it takes the form of revenge and aggression. Pride is the outcome of egoidentification. It is manifested in the shape of self-assertion and self-display. Deceit is the root cause of telling a lie to deceive others. All fraudulence is due to the emotion of deceit. Greed is stated to be the state of attachment. It is due to dissatisfaction of our desires and ambitions. The mainsprings of our worldly conduct are the cravings produced by dissatisfaction of our desires. Each of these four passions is again of four varieties in accordance with the intensity of its nature and functions. Thus, the passions are four multiplied by four or sixteen in number.
MILD EMOTIONS
The quasi-passions or mild emotions are nine in number. Of these, three are sexual and six are non-sexual in nature. The nonsexual quasi-passions are laughter, sorrow, liking, disliking, disgust, and fear. Laughter includes smiling, joking and ludicrous. These are the different forms of joy. Sorrow is opposed to joy. Crying, weeping, and the like are the most common forms of sorrow. Liking is
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