Yogshatakam

SR No.: 002645
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Punyavijay
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 144
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Yoga
File Size: 5 MB

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Yoga-sataka
89. It is tenable to hold that things like these happen as a result of the spiritual enlightenment of a suitable type; one must think over the matter himself and with a mind free from all prejudice.
90. In this manner one's sāmāyika becomes pure; thereafter one is able to perform meditation of the śukla type and gradually making progress he attains omniscience.
91. It is merely because of this (i. e. merely because of the just mentioned ultimate consequences) that the väsicandanakalpa person (i. e. the person who does not discriminate between those doing evil to himself and those doing good to himself) has been described by people who are expert in these matters as a possessor of the noblest type of mind; for otherwise there is even a slight harm in developing a mind like this (that being so because such a mind glosses over the evil propensities of the vicious person).
92. If one's yoga is completed in this very life he first realizes the state of freedom from all bodily, vocal and mental operations and ultimately the state (of moksi) that is free from the defects like birth etc. and is of an absolutely pure type.
93. However, in case one's yoga is left incomplete in this life one (even if he were a god in this life) is next born as a human being belonging to one of the numerous types; but in this new life too the man's interest in yoga continues on account of his constant practice of the same in his earlier life.
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94. Just as people see in dreams at the night-time those very things which they had frequently encountered during the daytime, the souls are to resume in the course of a next worldly life what they have frequently practised in the course of this one.
95. Hence in one's present birth one should adopt such a course of life as is suitable for a pure type of yoga-journey, and while doing so one should firmly adopt an identical attitude towards the life here and hereafter, towards life and death.
96. Possessed of a pure, noble mind one should through a pure fast duly undertaken-give up his body at the end of one's life-span, an end that one has ascertained to be imminent.
97. And the time of death is ascertained through an indicative sign mentioned in some authoritative text on the subject, through a deity (i. e. through the deity that presides over the body of an
The technical name given by the Jaina Yogic tradition to the highest type of meditation-a type further divided into four sub-types.