Fixing the terms

In Hindi literature daman means suppression and shaman means dissolution, but in jainism, both are often used interchangeably as supression (as seen in Karmavaad chapter-4)

Here is what I understand so far :

1. Daman (दमन): Forcefully crushing the urge (Suppression).
2. Shaman (शमन): Cooling and calming the urge through understanding (Pacification).
3. Vilayan (विलयन): Melting the urge and the ego completely into the whole (Dissolution).
4. Mārgāntarīkaraṇa (मार्गांतरीकरण): Changing the path of the urge to another worldly activity (Redirection).
5. Udāttīkaraṇa (उदात्तीकरण): Elevating the urge into something noble, creative, or divine (Sublimation).

We want to talk about Daman and Shaman here.

Daman is risky!

Forcefully suppressing the urge can easily backfire, we see it happen all the time in ourselves.

• People do dieting, nofap, social media detox only to relapse and get back to it worse than before, coz when you get back at old habit, to do that with a sense of compensating for the period you held it back.
• It is like a spring when compressed, and released, comes back to it's form and often extends more than its own form to then later oscillate and come back to it's original form.
• So if your habit is very firm, there is a chance of similar spring reaction. And attempts to exit a habit often becomes a Sinosidal wave of crests and troughs, and these waves are not calming, they are disturbing, infact not attempting it could have been better, like a y=5(A constant) graph....
• but if your graph was not y=5 (a constant) but y=x, ie. an ever increasing addiction, then daman is a necessary step which with other ways deployed can help....

Lab idea

• choose your addiction to set the base
  • 1. increasing and harmful - drugs, alcohol, gooning
    • y=\left{x>0:x\right}
  • 2. constant - Strong habit but contained often socially accepted- social media - Constant fast food
    • y=\left{x>0:20\right}
  • 3. Slight - occasional fun but bad in nischay - fast food , movies
    • y=\left{x>0:\ 20\cdot\left|\cos\left(\frac{\pi\cdot x}{20}\right)\right|^{1000}\right}
• Choose your method
  • Daman
    1. Slightly Downward sinosidal - very relevant and required
       1. y=\left{30\le x:\left(\frac{600}{\ln\left(30\right)}\right)\cdot\frac{\ln x}{x}+5+5\cdot\cos\left(\frac{\left(x-30\right)}{2.2}\right)\right}
    2. Downward Sinosidal - But can be worse than normal at times, but eventually if held long enough can help
       1. y=\left{30\le x:\left(\frac{200}{\ln\left(5\right)}\right)\cdot\frac{\ln x}{x}+10+5\cdot\cos\left(\frac{\left(x-80\right)}{2.2}\right)\right}
    3. Controlled
       1. y=\left{x>20:0\right}
  • Shaman
    1. very difficult, but might be possible due to magical realisation
       1. y=\ \left{30\le x:\left(\frac{900}{\ln\left(30\right)}\right)\cdot\frac{\ln x}{x}\right}
    2. Goes down smoothly
       1. y=\ \left{0\le x\le30:20,30\le x:\left(\frac{600}{\ln\left(30\right)}\right)\cdot\frac{\ln x}{x}\right}
    3. Controlled
       1. y=\left{x>20:0\right}
  • Vilayan
    1.

Graphs

1. Harmful ever increasing addictions
   Daman is best tool,
   Shaman is difficult, but if possible then it is better and less straining
   
   

2. Socially acceptable behaviour
   Daman is worse initially, but if sustained then can work eventually
   Shaman is best tool
   
   

3. Occasional fun
   Both Daman and Shaman works
   
   

Daman is not advisable unless it does not make way for Shaman

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