All manifested existence may be analysed into the Self, the Not-Self, and the Relationship between these two.
That Relationship may be divided into (1)Cognition (Gnynam): (2)Desire (Ichch): (3)Action (Kriy). To know, to desire, and to endeavour or act — those three comprise the whole of conscious life.
Feeling or emotion is of two kinds — pleasurable or painful. Pleasure, fundamentally a sense of moreness, produces attraction, love (rag): pain, fundamentally a sense of lessness, produces repulsion, hate (dvesha).
From attraction proceed all love-emotions: from repulsion proceed all hate-emotions. All emotions arise from love or hate, or from both, in varying degrees of intensity.
The precise nature of a particular emotion is also determined by the relationship between the one who experiences the emotion and the object which is the occasion of the emotion. The one who experiences the emotion may be, so far as the circumstances connected with the particular emotion are concerned, (1) Greater than: (2) Equal to: or (3) Less than the object.
Pursuing this analysis, we arrive at the six possible types of emotion-elements given in column three of the table appended. Column four gives sub-divisions of the primary elements in varying degrees of intensity, the strongest being at the head and the weakest at the foot of each group.
All human emotions consist of one of these six emotion-elements, or, more frequently, of two or more of them combined together.
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