________________
CHAPTER VI THE SINFUL DISPOSITION The following peculiarities of disposition are found to characterize the psychology of transgressors A man would yield either under the stress of external circumstances (illness, compulsion and the like) or without such external stress; he may commit only one act of transgression or go on doing so; he may cre to follow the Teaching of Truth, or he may not care to do so, and he may resist the downward step, or yield without resisting. This gives us a list of eight elements, or traits of character, which may be tabulated in four rows, as follows the sign oft marking the element of goodness and that of — its antithesis) — +Yielding under stress 1 | - yielding without exter(sahetuka)
nal stress (asahetuha) +Stopping after one 12 -oommitting more than
fault (sakritakam) one fault (asakmtahārr). +Longing to follow the 3 - not longing to follor tenobing of truth
the teaching of truth (sūnudichel,
(asānuvicha) + Resisting the tempta- 14 -not resisting the temptation (prayatnarāna) | 1 tron (aprayatnavāna)
By combining these in different groups we get no less than 16 types of the transgressing disposition
23
