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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA [Ch. x Vedana (Feeling in general)
Vedanā (feeling) is a relatively subjective and passive state of consciousness manifesting itself in the form of pleasure or pain or pleasure-cum-pain (sātā, asātā, sātāsātā-vedanā), happiness or suffering (sukha or duhkha or sukha-cum-duḥkha) or some mental agitation. They are eternal.' Sense-feeling
As a result of sensation accompanied by simple feeling of pleasure or pain there takes place the sense-feeling which is cognitive and affective. It can be divided into two kinds, viz.' organic feeling and special sense-feeling. Of the ten feelings mentioned in the BhS, viz. hunger, thirst, burning sensation, fever, itching, servility, fear and sorrow come under the category of the organic feeling, as they are connected with the discordant working of internal organs, while the feelings of cold and warmth belong to the special sense-feeling, for they are related to touch. Besides these, there are stated to be other sense-feelings of hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Kāmabhoga (Desire and Gratification of Desire)
Kāmas (desires) and bhogas (gratifications of desires) are explained on the principle of the psychophysical activities thus that they are corporeal (rūpī) and endowed with both consciousness and unconsciousness, because they are associated with the spiritual beings. There are stated to be two kinds of kāma (mental enjoyment or desire), viz. sound (sabda), and object of beauty (rūpa), while bhoga (gratification of desire or physical enjoyment) is of three kinds, viz. smell, taste and touch as they involve the mental and physical enjoyments respectively.
Emotion
As already explained in the beginning there are two transformations of the psychic process, viz, rāga (feeling of attraction)
1 Bhs, 5, 5, 202 ; 6, 10, 255; 14, 4, 511. 16, 14, 4, 511.
3 I6, 7, 8, 296. 4 lb, 12, 5, 557.
5 10, 7, 7, 290.
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