Grief (Hinduism)

Expression of grief may be through paleness, dryness of mouth, fatigue and pain. There is continual suffering like a burning in the mind, a suffering which consumes the mind, a mental pain characterized by mental oppression. The function is to distress the mind and it manifests as mental affliction although the intrinsic suffering produces bodily suffering. It may be expressed in tearing the hair, contorting the body, weeping, striking the breast, suffering and even committing suicide. Grief or sorrow arises from separation from objects of sense desire, when desire and lust elude a person. It is the mental agony arising from a calamity of from the loss of someone or something very dear. It may also be aroused by the frustration of endeavour. It is a mental perversion where the self and the not-self are not discriminated. Combined with mental bewilderment it is the cause of delusion. Together with delusion it eclipses discriminative knowledge and is a seed of embodied life.