Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

SR No.: 011128
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 139
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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APPENDIX I
THE TREATMENT OF THE PROBLEMS OF YOGA IN THE YOGABINDU AND THE DVĀTRIMŠADDVĀTRIṀŚIKĀ
One of the major peculiarities of the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya is the name given by the author to the subject-matter of his treatize. In common parlance the yoga signifies a systematic practice of meditative concentration, but that certainly is not the meaning - at least not the whole of the meaning-Haribhadra intends to attach to this word. To put it in a nutshell, by the word yoga Haribhadra means all such activity on a man's part as is conducive to his spiritual upliftment and the question arises as to why and with what propriety-this usage was adopted by him. If reliance is placed on Haribhadra's own references there was present before him a huge mass of literature emanating from the different schools of thought and dealing with the same problems as Haribhadra takes up in his writings on yoga. May be the authors of this multishaded literature considered themselves to be an authority on yoga but it is also possible that Haribhadra calls them so for no reason other than that they happened to satisfy his definition of 'an authority on yoga,' However a query concerning this matter will be primarily historical and we need not enter into it just now. Our present purpose is to determine as precisely as possible the scope of enquiry of a work dealing with the problems af yoga as Haribhadra understood it. We think that in this connection our basic source-material ought to come from Haribhadra's Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya and Yogabindu as also from the Dvätrimsikas 10th26th of Vasovijaya's Dvātrimśaddvātrimśikā.1 The Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya along with a somewhat detailed analysis of its subject-matter is already before us. The Yogabindu may be said to represent that churning of the problem on Haribhadra's part whose net outcome were the theses propounded by him in the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, while the subjectmatter of both the Vogabindu and the Yogadṛṣtisamuccaya was given a new systematic arrangement - at places also a further elucidation by Yasovijaya in his Dvatrimśikās in question. Hence a summary accountcum-analysis of the Yogabindu and of the Dvatrimšikas 10th 26th of the Dvatrimśadd vatrimśika is being given below just to enable the reader to see in a better light the subject-matter of the Yogadṛştisamuccaya.
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A careful perusal of the Yogabindu should convince one that Haribhadra is here chiefly tackling three questions, viz.
1. Yogabindu, L. D. Series. Ahmedabad, A. D. 1968; Dvātriṁśaddvātriṁšikā, Jaina Dharmaprasäraka Sabha, Bhavnagar, Sam, 1966.