Haribhadras Yoga Works and Psychosynthesis

SR No.: 001262
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Desai
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 106
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Yoga
File Size: 7 MB

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Haribhadra's Synthessis of Yoga
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- his virtues and make his character sound. Without such a noble character, no service would be useful. Penance too is a requirement at this preparatory stage and that alone would enable him to undergo higher and subtle types of penance at a later stage. Lastly he should have no anti-feeling for Mokşa. He may not have any clear concept of Moksa in the initial stage and so he may not have an attraction for Mokşa but in any case he should not have antipathy for the highest goal. If the preliminary performer has anti-feeling for the very goal of yoga, all his other preparation would be null and void. I would repeat here the first condition for the preliminary performance of worshipping the deities and elders. If he has patience enough to serve a deity or deities of his liking, he would naturally be guided to the clear concept of the goal of Mokşa. Moreover Haribhadra rightly states in Kärikā 139 of Yogabindu that antipathy to Moksa prolongs the worldly existence and it goes against the very aim of the preparatory performance. Thus Haribhadra has proved beyond doubt the preliminary necessity of such preparatory practice for the initiation in the yogic practice proper.
Before the treatment of the categories of the sādhakas is taken up in some details it is necessary to understand that they are nothing but different categories of personality as can be explained in psychological terms. These categories of sādhakas are quite different from the eight Drstis because the Drştis explain the eight stages of personality on the ladder of yoga. Haribhadra lays down a number of categories of sadhakas in these two books and Dr. K. K. Dixit has very well summarised them and compared them with different Gunasthānas i.e. Jain categories of sādhakas.
(1) The welcomers of worldly existence (2) The Apunarbhandhaka (3) The Samyagdrsti (4) Caritrins :
(a) Deśaviratas (b) Sarvaviratas
(c) Vitarāgas (5) The Kevalins :
(a) Sayoga Kevalin (b) Ayoga Kevalin
It must be made clear here that the first category of the Bhavabhinandi or the welcomers of worldly existence is not cited as a sādhaka but as a personality under the base of the heirachy of sādhakas. Moreover for