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46: śramaņa, Vol 63, No. 3, July-Sep. 2012 Jainism does not speak about the three layers of mind. So the classification of three levels of mind can be said that they have facilitated to understand the mind well. But Jain mịnd concept doesn't have such capability to keep hidden saṁskāras stored. It simply works as other sense organs. It acts upon the data supplied by sense organs and sends them either to soul through psyche, and gets engaged with other incoming data. Thus, it is absolute consciousness that keeps the impressions, or in Freudian terminology repressed material and also the control over dream object. The Eros and
Thanatos can be compared to the two aspects of Mohanīya karma i.e. rāga and dveșa. For Freud Eros, the rāga stands for attachment, and the dveșa stands for aversion or destructive instinct So, we can hold that the libido energy as karma, the unconscious mind as soul and the desires as the outcome of mohaniya karma or Kārmaņaśarīra which can be held as an external add-ons that has defiled the self/psyche. The whole mechanism of dream is somehow related with the concept of consciousness and the theory of karma in Jainism.
From Freud's analytic point of view, desires or repressed desires cannot be renunciated but if we reflect upon the Asian culture and philosophy, the main purpose of religion is renunciation or liberation from the desires. Hence the whole practice of spirituality is based on the renunciation since it believes in such liberation from desires as the end of life. Although, both Freud and Jainism believe in past impressions, Freud calls them as repressed desires and Jainism as karma (record of our past good or bad deeds). For Freud what unconscious mind is, that can be compared to the karma or kārmaņa Śarīra' of Jain philosophy. Libido can be compared with Mohaniya karma, the main agent behind the production of desires. As Eros and Thanatos are functional aspects of libido similarly rāga and dveșa are two prominent aspects of Mohaniya karma. '' This can be shown through a figure as following:
