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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2022

life that is caught in the earth stuff and into the motor functions which overwhelm
the cycles of a higher life where life is better the mind and life with mechanical and
organised in tune with universal rhythms. monotonous signals begin to act in unison
The higher life absorbs failure and death into with their corresponding gnostic functions,
it and grows wise with the mind`s help so that bring pleasantly variable sensory
as to live again and thus retains its tenfold signals. In the course of time, instincts
permanence. begin to get sublimated into emotions and
feelings. The value of contentment as a
sensory phenomenon is so refreshing that
the person starts to move away from the
six sinister emotions and cherishes to live
in this positive state more and more.

2. Contentment, a positive emotion, in turn
craves for a host of other positive emotions
like sincerity towards oneself and others,
responsibility towards acts and deeds,
courage to pursue new paths, affection
towards one’s neighbourhood, etc. and the
person goes in search of people or groups
The behaviour of higher life and the growth living in positive emotions. Work gives
of personality an opportunity to churn his motor power
into a useful lever for social comfort and
The journey of man out of his animal past man begins to bring contentment and a
and his growth into a perfect man is enacted host of positive feelings into the society
in 10 sequential steps that are sometimes around through his work. In course of
haphazardly taken up but can be inferentially time, work becomes a means of earning a
traced into one or other phases of this tenfold livelihood and thus becomes a compulsion,
development. Each of the six sinister emotions a compulsion as strong as other animalistic
and three functions of the mind too are instincts but refined and sublimated in its
tested and perfected as they are subjected expression and function. But work serves
to maximum use in the effort of the man to its utility when it is shared and supported
grow along this tenfold path. A sequential by the people around. Thus social living
observation of this tenfold growth helps becomes another compulsion.
in greater self-perfection and the ultimate
spiritual perfection. 3. The struggle for existence as a method of
life on earth lasts only as long as the ego
1. Hunger and satiety are two extremes of establishes its supremacy in the society it
each instinct. In the lower life, satiety again lives. This is essentially a phenomenon
leads to hunger whereas interestingly in of lower life — an early phase — the
the higher life, hunger leads to a positive animalistic phase of life. As man begins
state of contentment. This happens because to live with his society, his ego too grows

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