History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.349.2

v7.c95.349.2

He divides each of the three kinds of pleasure into three varieties, which are passed over here. The preceding are classifications of pleasure that is ‘Laukikakārya’ (ordinary or common); but there are also other sukhas, viz. *vaidika* [fourfold such as pratīkopāsanā, *āhārya* (assumed) and *vāsanātmaka* (as in sleep)]. This last he subdivides into three kinds (sāttvika, rājasa and tāmasa) that are passed over. Pain (duhkha) is divisible in the same way as sukha and the author illustrates the different kinds of pain, that are left out here. Then the author dilates upon the cause or causes of pleasure and pain (sukha and duhkha) that constitute man's experience on earth, which causes are prārabdha (past *karma* that has begun to operate and determines the body the soul secures), *samskāra* and *prayatna*.²⁵⁹³ He states that the bliss that a man feels in meditation (*samādhi*) is due to *prārabdha*, the pleasure he feels in deep sleep is due to *samskāras*²⁵⁹⁴ and the pleasure on the fall of rain after the performance of the Kārīrī (sacrifice) is due to human effort From the Upanisad passages it follows (says Acyutarāya) that in deep sleep there is no desire, no karma and no fear and so the pleasure (expressed on waking in the words '*sukham-ahamasvāpsam*' (I had a happy sleep) is not due to prārabdha but to samskāras. He relies on the Br. Up.²⁵⁹⁵ (IV. 4. 2) for holding this view (i e.