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ils proper size. Throughout life, the genes continue giving instructions to the cells as to how to select the right chemical action to fare the eventualities that are likely to cause the body to disintegrate. The information is embodied in an enormous long string that we describe as genetic code, provided by the sequences of three nucleotide bases. The reference standards in our brains influence our wants and desires, our satisfaction and revulsions, our longings and our fears. The causes of actions of a given man will include not only all the above variables but also his free will. References : 1. This is the process of paryāpti (bio-potential) which is completed
in six stages : (1) The first is ahāra paryāpti-the in-take of the fertilized ovum by the soul. (2) The second is sarira paryāptiadoption of the ovum as the physical body. Then follow (3) indriya paryāpti, (4) svāsocchrāsa paryāpti (5) bhāṣā paryāpti and (6) manah paryāpti-the sequences of the consummation of the potential faculties of sense organs, respiration, speech and thought
respectively. 2. For example a non-vegetarian would be delighted when served
with, say, a well-cooked lobster dinner. On the other hand, a born vegetarian would find the very sight so repulsive that he may throw up. In neither case is the lobster responsible for the result but learned emotional feelings.
LANGUAGE OF EMOTION
Poetry and Music have been called the language of emotion. Any emotional response is a combination of sensation and the response to it. For example, certain stimuli arouse fear or sadness, religious fervour and devotion, and in each case the particular emotion is accompanied by physical changes such as increased heatbeats and weeping relaxation and tranquillity.
Music has its own language which illustrate the abstract qualities of human experience, rather than particular facts. These qualities are fundamental features of the whole cerebral organization; therefore inevitably, when, say, sadness or joy are suggested, whole complexes of associated details may follow.
-J. S. Zaveri
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