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unconscious cognitive processes. The emotions - love, hate, fear, joy - are more primitive or subjective in nature and are different from the mind as such. Likewise happiness, pain or sorrows are mere states of mind than real. The flow of emotions begins and turns on the mind. Many thoughts and ideas enter the mind and do not allow the man to be solitary for a fraction of moment. Taming the mind is like taming a wild animal. It requires infinite patience, preservance and will power.
Attachment or infatuation is the basic emotion and the others like joy, fear, despair etc. are its extensions. Aversion or envy is its natural corollary. Aversion is one of the more obscure forms of love. The root of suffering is attachment. Possessiveness and greed are the main causes which create tension in the life of an individual and also in the society at large. Whatsoever one thinks or does, is always motivated by either attachment or aversion. It is on account of attachment that a person commits violence, utters lie, commits theft, indulges in sex and develops a yearning for unlimited hoardings. Jainism means practice of detachment.
Attachment breeds desires or vice versa. The past impressions make mind wander and the memory of past experience and the desires for the future ones that breed attachment and aversion. Origin of human sorrow, suffering and dissatisfaction is desire, which includes physical ambition, craving, longing and selfishness of all kinds. Desire is the root cause of endless miseries. Desires bring suffering, anxiety and misfortune. Souls suffer because of desires, attachments and anguish,
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