Bhagavan Das on the Triune Nature of Emotions

Bhagavan Das · Constitution of Man Series · 17 pages

Selections from Bhagavan Das's The Science of the Emotions — the 274-page volume held complete elsewhere in this section — arranged to give its central argument without the whole book. The order of derivation is the point: desire came first, and emotions are desires plus thoughts, ever shifting toward one of two opposing directions of force. Fear, on this account, came later rather than being primitive. Between the two sits the counsel of moderation in all things.

The three tables are what make the file useful as a reference. The first sets the primal trinity of emotions as it appears in the East against its Western form; the second distinguishes feelings proper from emotions proper, which is the distinction the rest of the system depends on; the third gives worked examples of the triune expressions of the One Life. An introductory note by the series editor sets the framework in the terms this section uses throughout — manas as mind, kama as desire, and their interplay with other minds through karma as act — so that the emotional scheme lines up with the sevenfold constitution set out in the Overview.

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