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-şataka
advanced yoga-seeker), through a piece of intuition, through a dream, through a non-observation of the star Arundhati etc., through a nonobservation of one's nose-tip or of one's eye-ball, through a non-hearing of the auditory fire (i. e. non-noticing of the inner functioning of the auditory sense-organ, a functioning comparable to the burning of live fire).
98. In this connection an extreme precaution has to be taken as to the purity of one's fast, for one's mind at the time of next birth is of the very same colouring as his mind at the time of this death.
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99. Of course, even when a desriable type of mind-colouring is present there one should be treated as a proper practiser (of yoga) because of his obeying the scriptural injunctions (and not because of his possessing the mind-colouring in question), for so far as this type of mind-colouring is concerned one must have acquired it frequently enough in the course of a beginningless series of births and deaths experienced by oneself.
100. Hence one who aspires after the complete cessation of bodily, vocal and mental operations must endeavour for a proper implementation of the scriptural injunctions, for this verily is what constitutes a departure of the worldly life and a permanent non-departure of mokṣa (more strictly, what constitutes a cause of this departure and this non-departure).
• Alternatively, non-hearing on the part of the auditory fire (i. e. on the part of the auditory sense-organ-whose functioning is comparable to the burning of live fire).