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THE EQUIPMENT OF WILL
ramifications all round, loosening and destroying, at the same time, all opposite tendencies and fixed ideas to the contrary. It may even become an absorbing obsession with certain individuals, e.g., fanatics.
Right Faith is the belief in the Divinity of the soul itself, which is to displace that in the identity with the body in the fulness of time. But this belief differs from all other forms of belief in so far as it is not centred round what may be termed a foreign object; it concerns the soul itself. Impulses are formed in connection with material objects with the aid of the inflowing matter, consequent on the pleasurable or painful experiences of them on the part of the individual. But in connection with Right Faith (properly conceived) there is no external object to give rise to material influx or to be an object of pleasure or pain through the senses. The conviction of the divinity of the soul, is, on the contrary, hostile to the element of attachment to extraneous things altogether. There is, therefore, no fresh impulse formed in the mind in connection with Right Faith; only the existing wrong impulses, fed on the belief that the body is the self, are loosened under its influence, and, in due course of time, destroyed, leaving the soul free and rid, in the end, of Will itself, and of all the impulses embedded in it.
As regards the 'registering' of experiences, that is, memory and association of ideas, all the different affective experiences are tacked on to their appropriate impulses, that is to say, that each experience is gathered through an impulse which is principally concerned in its experiencing, for every perception, it will be noted, is only cognized by the Will with the aid of some particular impulse as explained in the Jaina Psychology. An orange, for instance, may be admired for its colour, or flavour, or for its perfect shape or freshness, and there may be a number of other points of interest and view which become operative when the enjoyment of a fruit of the orange species is concerned. The Will may not, however,
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