Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATÍ SÚTRA Ch. * Thought (Cintā or mental activity)
The process of mental activity (manoyoga) is thought which is inter-connected with memory and imagination of the past events, objects, etc., and the imagination of the present and future activities of life, as the mind acts and reacts to new objects of thought at every moment. As already explained mind is matter (manadravya) and is associated with the spiritual being. Its activities are the passing phases of matter. Mind, when operating is mind (maņemaņijjamāņemaņe), for it breaks forth while operating (maņijjamāṇe mane bhijjati)".
Thus it is the organ of apprehension of all sense objects and knowledge', while thought implying comprehension is abstract representative mental activity involving analysis in the form of abstraction and synthesis, in that of comparison and expressing itself through speech or language.
Dream
The Bhs throws a welcome light upon the principle of dream by explaining five kinds of dream-vision, viz. yathātathya, pratāna, cintāsvapna, tadviparīta and avyakta darsana,' i.e. (1) dreamvision in accordance with truth or reality, (2) ramified dreamvision, (3) dream-vision according to the thought in the waking state, (4) dream vision opposite to realities and (5) indistinct inexpressible-dream-vision.
It is further explained that only a sleeping-cum-waking man experiences a dream-vision. These broad principles of dream touch upon all the combined theories on dream propounded by Dr. Freud, Jung and Adler, and other scholars.
According to Dr. Freud a dream is the fulfilment of a repressed desire which does not peaceably leave the organism but sinks to a level of unconscious state in which it is still active and apt to appear in the disguised and symbolic ways. Abnormal
1 Bh8, 16, 6, 578.
' Ib, 13, 7, 494. 3 Pramānamimaisā, 1, 2, 24, 4 BKS, 16, 6. 578-81. 5 Interpretation of Dreams-Dr. Freud, pp. 344, 388.