Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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INTRODUCTION
From the context it appears that vairāgya ( detachment) is a topic dealt with, in Bhāvanāsiddhi. It may be that it may be dealing with all the four holy reflections viz. love, serene joy, compassion and detachment or with twelve reflections mentioned in TS (IX, 7). (54 & 54a ) Yogadrstisamuccaya and its svopajña com'.
This work is written in Samskrta in 226 verses. It deals with three kinds of yoga: (i) icchd-yoga, (ii) sästra-yoga and (iii) sāmarthya-yoga and two varieties of the last. It then proceeds to expound eight drstis. No Jaina work which is older than this and which treats this subject, is available. So, until we come across such a work, Haribhadra should be credited for ushering this new era in the Jaina world.
Up to his days it appears we had the exposition of 14 gunasthānas, that of the four types of meditation, that of the three stages of a mundane soul and description of the five maha. vratas (yamas), control over senses (pratyāhāra) etc. It was, however, Haribhadra who described the spiritual development in terms of yoga. For a corroborative evidence the reader may refer to his works such as Yogadrsțisamuccaya, Yogabindu, Jogavihānavisiyā* (Visavīsiya XVII), Yogasataka and Sodasaka.”
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Both have been published in D. L. J. P. Fund Series as No. 12 in 1912 A. D. The English intro. of the late Dr. Luigi Suali referred to in the preface of this edition, is to be found in the edition of Yogabindr. For another edition of the text and the com, see p. XXXI. Nyāyācārya Yašovijaya Gani has treated this subject in his four Samskrta Dvătrimśikäs (XXI-XXIV). For the masses ingom. petent to follow Sanskrta, he has dilated apon this subject in Gujarāti in verse. It appears that in the Jaina agamas the word 'jbåna' implying meditation has been primarily used for 'yoga'. Its characteristics 89 well as its varieties form the subject-matter of several dgamas e. g. (i) Tháza (IV, I), (ii) Samavāya (IV), (iii) Viāhapannatti (XXV). (iv) Utlarajjhayana (XXX, 35) and (v) Avaasayanujutti ( kausagga-ajjhayana; y. 1462-1468). This topic is dealt with, in TS (IX, 27 ) and in Jinabhadra Gani's Jhänasaya. This is named as Yogavinsika by Yaśovijaya Gani in his com. on it. For further information the reader is referred to Pandit Sukblal's article "Yogadarsana" published in the intro. to Patañjala Yoga. dariana ane Yogavins'ikā.
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