Yogabindu

SR No.: 011123
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

Page 87

ON SAMVAGDRȘTI
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तदत्रं परिणामस्य भेदकत्वं नियोगतः । बाह्यं त्वसदनुष्ठानं प्रायस्तुल्यं द्वयोरपि ॥२६९॥ tad atra farināmasya bhedakatvam niyogataḥ / bahyan tv asadanusthānam prayas tulyam drayor api //26911
From this we are to conclude that the necessary (i.e. decisive) differentiating factor here is the concerned mental make-up; for so far as the external form of a piece of misconduct is concerned it is usually the same in the case of both the types of milhjādrsựis in question).
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The Comparison of a Samyagdrsti with a Bodhisattva:
अयमस्यामवस्थायां बोधिसत्त्वोऽभिधीयते । अन्यैस्तल्लक्षणं यस्मात् सर्वमस्योपपद्यते ॥२७०॥ ayam asgām avasthāyāṁ bodhisattvo'bhidhīyate / anyais' tallakṣaṇam jasmāt sarvam asyopapadyate 1/27011
It is the mau occupying this stage of spiritual development (i.e. it is the Samyagdtsti) who has been designated Bodhisatlva by others (i.e. by certain Buddhists); for this man satisfies the entire description of a Bodhisattva,
कायपातिन एवेह बोधिसत्त्वाः परोदितम् । न चित्तपातिनस्तावदेतदत्रापि युक्तिमत् ॥२७१॥ kāyapālina eveha bodhisattvāḥ paroditam / na cittapātinas tāvad clad atrāpi puktimat //271||
. The others (i.e. the upholders of the doctrine of Bodhisattva) have said that a Bodhisattva's body (possibly) commits a depraved act but never his mind; this is a fit description of our man (i.e. of a Samyagdysti) as well.
परार्थरसिको धीमान् मार्गगामी महाशयः । गुणरागी तथेत्यादि सर्व तुल्यं द्वयोरपि ॥२७२॥ parārtharasiko drūmān märgagāmī mahāśayaḥ / gunānuragi tathetyadi sarvam tulyam dvayar api //272||
. Again, both (a Bodhisattva and a Samyagdrsti) share the same description
inasmuch as both are lover of doing good to others, intelligent, pursuer ' of the right path (i.e. the path conducive to moksa), high-minded,
Admirer of spiritual merits, and so on and so forth.