62. 68 CHAPTER 1

68 CHAPTER 1

THE CONCEPTION OF BHOGA, ACCORDING TO YOGA SYSTEM. "Sattvapuruşayoh atyantāsankīrņayoḥ1 Pratyayāviśeșo Bhogah". Sattva in Yoga terminology means Buddhi. It is insentient. And Purușa is sentient or sentiency itself. They are thus of opposite nature. Therefore, no such union between them is possible as between lotus and blue. In intellectual reaction to a stimulus, however, in practical life, there is no consciousness of difference between them. This consciousness of identity of Buddhi and Purusa in practical life is technically called Bhoga.

VAISESIKA CONCEPTION OF BHOGA. Accooding2 to the Vaiśesika also, knowledge (Jñāna) is distinct from self. Bhoga, the reference of knowledge to the self, therefore, is explained in terms of relation of inherence. Thus, according to the Vaiseșika also, relation is involved in Bhoga, though not Samyoga, as according to the Sankhya, but Samavāya. THE CRITICISM OF THE NEW TECHNIQUE. From the above explanations of Bhoga and Ananda it is clear that the two cannot go together. Bhoga, accor- ding to all systems of thought, involves subject-object relation. But Ananda, which is nothing but the predomi- nance of pure Sattva, is not possible so long as the subject- object relation persists, Bhoga is the opposite of Moksa, which consists in Ananda. Thus the new theory is unsound, because it brings in the contradictory conceptions to explain the æsthetic experience. It may be stated here that there is no essential difference in the conception of æsthetic experience, admitted 1. I. P. V. V., Vol. I. 156-7. 2. I. P. V. V., Vol. I. 155.