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 BHAGAWATI SUTRA
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worry', a queer idea haunting a nervous person, 'hysterical paralysis, etc., sometimes are the effects of this disguise. In the case of a normal man the repressed desires come up in the garb of an innocent appearing symbolism. Adler holds the view that a dream is not the revival and reappearance of the suppressed wish of the distant past, but a rehearsal for some impending action of an individual man to perform, and it reveals his characteristic mode of dealing with his new problem. Jung* thinks that a dream is associated with the present difficulties of an individual and shows his unconscious attitude of mind towards the problem of his life.
According to the theory of dream as embodied in the BhS, yathatathya svapna (dream-vision in accordance with reality) and cintā-8vapna (dream according to the thought in the waking state) agree with those of the theories propounded by Adler and Jung, as they are the results of the process of thoughts to deal with the present and future problems of life. While the pratāna (ramified dream vision), tadvi parāta (dream-vision-opposite to reality), (i. e. object of thought) and avyakta-darsana (indistinct or inexpressible dream vision) touch upon the theory of Dr. Freud, as they are associated with some desires repressed by thought and they appear in some garbs of symbolism.
From this analysis it may be defined that "dream whether awake or asleep is a free, passive, incoherent and constructive imagination often due to recent experience. But it is an imagination confounded with perception."
Belief or Attitude of Mind (Drşti)'
In the process of thought the attitude of mind or belief is the central theme which is characterised by truth (samyaktva) or falsehood (mithyātva) in regard to the objects of thought. Thus it is endowed with the union of the intellectual, emotional and conational elements and is inter-related with knowledge.
i Vide, Psychology, Robert S. Wood worth, pp. 567-68. ? Vide, Psychology-Robert S. Woodworth, p. 563. * Psychology-Suresh Chandra Datta, p. 165. Bh8, 1, 9, 73.