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YOGABINDU
Hence it is tbat this 'feeling of ascertainment has been described as tbe 'messenger of successful completion'; this again is why the other prominent authori:ies on loga hare described it as the 'helping hand'. offered to those seekivg successful completion.
अपेक्षते ध्रुवं ह्येनं सद्योगारम्भकस्तु यः । नान्यः प्रवर्तमानोऽपि तत्र देवनियोगतः ॥२३८॥ apekşate dhruvam liy cnam sadyogārambhakas lu jah /
nänyaḥ pravartamāno’pi latra daivaniyogataḥ 1/238!/ A recourse to this 'feeling of ascertajoment is necessarily taken by one who has begun to practise the highest type of loga; on the other hand, one who happens to be undertaking yoga-practice by sheer luck does not do so (i.e. does not take recoarse to the feeling in question). (6) The Parting Praise of an Apunarbandhaka :
आगमात् सर्व एवायं व्यवहारः स्थितो यतः । . Garfa erfata+T ETIEFİ #sat: 1173311 . āgamal satua evāyam vyavahāraḥ sthilo g'alah /
talräpi hāļhiko yas tu hantājñānāṁ sa śckharah 1/239// Since this entire code of conduct (appropriate to a Yoga-Seeker) has been worked out on the authority of the scriptural texts the man who I while seeking Yoga) makes an exhibition of adamance (by deliberately and persistently going counter to the scriptural injunctions) must be a fool of the first water.
तत्कारी स्यात् स नियमात् तद्वेषी चेति यो जङः । । आगमार्थे तमुल्लध्य तत एव प्रवर्तते ॥२४॥ tatkārī syāt sa niyamāt laddueși celi yo jadah /
āgamarthe tam ullamghya tala era pravarlate //2401 The idiot who seeks to achieve an objective described in the scriptural texts but at the same time violates the procedure prescribed by these very texts in this connection is like the man who obeys sonieone but is at the same time necessarily inimical to this one.
न च सद्योगभव्यत्य वृत्तिरेवंविधाऽपि हि । न जात्वजात्यधर्मान् यज्जात्यः सन् भजते शिखी ॥२४॥ na ca sadyogabhavasya vyttir cuamvidha’pi hi /
na jälv ajālyadharmān gaj jālyaḥ san bhajate śikhi 1/24111 Even such an attitude (i.e. the attitude of obeying as well as being ipinical) is not adopted by one possessed of the competence to pursue :
| SR No. | 011123 |
| Book Title | Yogabindu |
| Original Sutra Author | Haribhadrasuri |
| Author | K K Dixit |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1968 |
| Total Pages | 163 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 8 MB |